Medical transcription outsourcing: Serving healthcare facilities at all levels

Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records of the patient- healthcare professional encounter. It is a known fact that medical transcription services aid healthcare professionals in the provision of quality healthcare. And outsourcing medical transcription helps create patient medical records in an accurate, speedy, secure and cost-effective services.

But a lesser advertised and less known fact about outsourced medical transcription is how it aids the operations of healthcare facilities at every level.

Outsourcing medical transcription has the following benefits:

The managerial staff:

• Savings on investment: Outsourcing medical transcription helps the managerial staff save on investments substantially, by eliminating the need to invest in transcription equipment and furniture required for transcription.

• Saving information technology: Expenses for Information technology for executing transcription in-house can be avoided or substantially reduced by outsourcing medical transcription.

• Staffing benefit: Outsourcing medical transcription enables the staff of the healthcare facility especially the managerial and executive level staff to focus on the core business of providing quality healthcare.

The records management staff:

• Recruiting and retaining medical transcriptionists staff: One of the main inputs for quality medical transcription is that of qualified and trained transcriptionists. Outsourcing medical transcription effectively eliminates the need to recruit, train and retain the transcription team.

• Turnaround time: As turnaround time is the guaranteed by the outsourced medical transcription service provider it eliminates the responsibility of the records manager to constantly monitor and follow-up on turnaround time.

• Process for medical transcription: By outsourcing medical transcription, effectively the responsibility to have an organized process for maintaining services at requisite quality levels is also outsourced.

• Keeping track: The outsourced medical transcription service provider would have a system in place that would provide a summary of the job status for transcription work, making it easier for the record management staff to keep track of dictations sent, transcripts received and the work-in-progress.

• HIPAA and HITECH compliance: The onus of securing confidential patient information by securing the team, the technology and processes becomes the responsibility of the outsourced medical transcription service provider.

The support staff:

• Multiple modes of document delivery: The support staff at the healthcare facility benefits from the multiple modes of document delivery provided by the outsourced service provider.

• Archives: Archival facilities provided by the outsourced medical transcription service provider enables the support staff to retrieve transcripts easily by using various search criteria.

The Information technology staff:

• Redundancy and backup of data: The outsourced service provider would be making provisions for redundancy and backup of systems lessening the burden of the information technology staff.

• Interfacing of systems: By using advanced technology that is easy to use the outsourced medical transcription service provider would make interfacing the healthcare facility system with that of the outsourced service provider very simple.

• Install/upgrade software: The responsibility of installing/upgrading software for transcription is undertaken by the service provider when transcription is outsourced.

• EMR adoption: Outsourcing medical transcription would help in adoption of EMR through HL7 interfacing.

TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has been providing transcription solutions that are customized to suit the specific needs of healthcare facilities. TransDyne offers quality medical transcription at reasonable prices, executed by experienced and qualified medical transcriptionists with a very quick turnaround time executed through secure HIPAA and HITECH compliant channels, with very high levels of accuracy and all this with technology that is advanced but easy to use!   

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