Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing services that are tied to improved outcomes

Medical transcription has been associated with healthcare services by providing essential support that enables clinical decision making, receivables management and risk management.  As medical transcription is a specialized skill requiring dedicated resources in terms of time, investment and technology to meet the quality standards of being accurate, timely, secure and cost effective, outsourcing medical transcription has been found to be one of the best options.

Outsourcing medical transcription provides healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities with many advantages over the alternative methods of documentation like point and click entry, speech recognition software or even having an in-house medical transcription team. In fact outsourced medical transcription service providers provide services that help healthcare facilities meet the expected outcomes from the documentation purpose.

What are the expected outcome from documenting the patient encounter and how do outsourced medical transcription service providers help improve on these outcomes?

The healthcare professional- patient encounter is documented to support the following outcomes:

• Providing a complete picture of the patient's medical history including demographics, symptoms, findings, diagnosis, treatment and response to treatment.
• Providing a base of reference for all future encounters
• Helps avoid wastage of resources by helping avoid unnecessary or repetitive tests/ procedures etc.
• Provides the proper sequence of treatment and provides justification for treatment, which acts as a defense in case of litigation
• Provides the base for coding and billing leading to reimbursements
• Helps meet statutory compliance requirements
• Provides a basis of epidemic management
• Provides useful information for reviews and improvement programs etc
• Provides a record of treatment and reaction to treatment in case of research for new drugs etc.

Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide support in all these aspects by providing services that include the following benefits:

• Medical transcription is the process that allows for documenting the narrative portion of the patient encounter, which provides healthcare professionals with valuable support in planning the care process. Outsourced medical transcription service providers not only allow for the narrative to be included in the patient medical records but also ensures that these details are captured with the maximum accuracy possible. Retaining the narrative portion also provides invaluable support for receivables management and risk management

• Medical transcription service providers also ensure not only accuracy but also ensure that these transcripts are made available to healthcare professionals on time. For maximum convenience, outsourced medical transcription service providers also ensure delivery of transcripts through preferred modes of document delivery

• Outsourced medical transcription service providers ensure that healthcare professionals have easy access to older patient medical records by providing archive facilities that can be easily searched using various criteria.

• Additionally outsourced medical transcription service providers also provide editing and proofreading services for healthcare professionals using speech recognition software to help bring the accuracy to acceptable levels

• Outsourced medical transcription service providers enable adoption of EMR/EHR using HL7 interface.

It can be seen that outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider can help improve on the expected outcome of the healthcare process.

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 affordable and integrated 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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