Medical transcription outsourcing: Enhancing healthcare using the right technology

Medical transcription is the process of creating patient records by converting the audio narration of the patient- healthcare professional encounter into text format. Though this is an accurate definition of medical transcription this definition does not cover the full scope of services provided by medical transcription. Though medical transcription plays an important role in the smooth running of healthcare facilities it is not part of the core business of the healthcare facility.

Moreover medical transcription requires a combination of the right ream, the right process and the right technology to be efficient and economical, which would require substantial investment, time and efforts. The easy fix to ensure that patient medical records are created with accuracy, within turnaround time, securely and in a cost effective manner is to outsource to a professional medical transcription service provider.

Medical transcription has evolved from being just a service of  creating accurate, timely, cost effective and secure patient medical records to a service  that aids healthcare using software and tools to ease the working life of healthcare professional and healthcare facilities administrators.

Outsourced medical transcription service providers have used technology to provide services that:

• Helps improve quality of care: Software and technology used in medical transcription have improved the working life of healthcare professionals by helping them conserve on their limited time resources and allowing them to concentrate a major portion of their time towards providing quality healthcare, by providing the following benefits:

1.      Allowing them to retain familiar modes of dictation

2.      Creating a system for automating medical transcription

3.      Enabling different modes of document delivery as per the preference of the healthcare professional.

4.      Allowing healthcare professionals to retain the familiar mode of dictation- transcription for patient record creation, still enabling information to be interfaced with EMR through HL7 interface.

• Curb wastage of resources: The technology used by outsourced medical transcription service provider helps curb wastage of time, money and resources towards managing medical transcription process

• Better coordination of healthcare service: Technology used by the outsourced medical transcription service provider provides an organized system for medical transcription, which helps keep track of dictation, work in progress and transcripts.

• Helps with healthcare decision-making: Outsourced medical transcription services create timely and accurate patient medical records which aid in decision making during the healthcare process.

• Provide information for research and preventive medicine: Creation of detailed, accurate and timely patient transcripts lead to accumulation of data, which helps in devising preventive health programs, and also aids in research.

• Curb costs and accelerate reimbursements: outsourcing medical transcription ensures that direct and indirect costs towards transcription are curbed and the reimbursement process is quickened. This helps improve the cash flow of the healthcare facility.

Outsourcing medical transcription to a medical transcription service provider using the right blend of software & tools and personnel can help healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals perform more efficiently.

TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has used their extensive background in information technology and their experience in serving the needs of the healthcare sector to provide total medical transcription solutions.

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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