Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing services that help validate clinical data

The process of healthcare is complicated requiring the complete attention of healthcare professionals and the focus of all resources of the healthcare facility. In this situation it is important to ensure that healthcare professionals get all the support they require to be able to provide quality services. It is important that healthcare professionals are not burdened with additional activities to their already complex repertoire. These activities though essential to the process of healthcare do not necessarily have to be performed by the healthcare professionals themselves. Medical transcription; the process of creating patient medical records is one such activity.

Though patient medical records are essential for seamless operations of healthcare facilities playing an important role in the clinical decision making, risk management and receivables management, it is counter-productive for healthcare professionals to focus on this activity. This could result in dilution of care and curb their productivity.  One easy fix to ensure that this does not happen is to outsource medical transcription to a professionally managed medical transcription service provider. This ensures that patient medical records are created with maximum accuracy, minimum turnaround time, and maintaining HIPAA compliance and in an economic manner. Moreover having another set of expert “ eyes and ears” validating the input from the healthcare professional can help improve the usability of the patient medical record.

It is a known fact that medical transcriptionists and medical transcription service providers do not provide the substance for the patient medical record; this comes from the narration of the healthcare professional regarding the patient encounter, but they do play an important role in improving the form of this data by validating it.

How do outsourced medical transcription service providers validate the clinical data provided by the healthcare professionals?

Medical transcription services have evolved from simple typing services or data entry services to services that help healthcare professionals to maximize on their productivity by providing versatile services that ensures that the information in patient medical records conforms to the following standards:

• Clarity: Healthcare professionals use various methods for capturing the details of the patient encounter including dictation devices of their choice, speech recognition software etc. Medical transcription service providers ensure that clarity of the patient medical record is preserved in spite of the method used for capturing this information by putting the transcripts through a rigorous quality assurance process.

• Usability: The information from the patient medical records needs to be in a form that enhances their usability. Outsourced medical transcription service providers ensure this by providing healthcare professionals easy access to the patient medical records, delivering transcripts through the modes specified by the healthcare professional and ensuring that the records are created in the formats/ templates specified by them

• Accuracy: Realizing that the accuracy of the data in patient medical records is vital for every aspect of successfully running the healthcare facility, medical transcription service providers ensure maximum accuracy possible by using skilled and specially trained medical transcriptionists, subjecting each transcript to a rigorous quality assurance process involving multiple checks.

• Efficiency: Outsourced medical transcription service providers not only ensure efficiency in the actual process of medical transcription but also help enhance the efficiency of the healthcare facility at all levels by curbing direct and direct expenses.

It can be seen that outsourcing medical transcription helps validate the clinical data collected by healthcare professionals.

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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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