Medical transcription outsourcing: What are the advantages?

Medical transcription has been a part of healthcare for a long time, though the actual process of creating patient medical records has evolved from the initial version of haphazard handwritten notes to that of specialized sophisticated services providing numerous advantages. Medical transcription services have evolved by leveraging on their in-depth knowledge of healthcare facility operations & the work life of healthcare professionals and using software and tools. This has enabled outsourced medical transcription service providers to provide services that meet the requirements of healthcare professionals, while still maintaining quality levels, security and price.

With the changing healthcare documentation scenario the role of medical transcription becomes even more significant given the wealth of experience and expertise at their disposal. Given below are some of the advantages of outsourced medical transcription services:

• Volume flexibility: One of the biggest advantages of outsourcing medical transcription is that the healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals are ensured of quality services regardless of the volume of patients inflow. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have a large pool of specialty trained medical transcriptionists and the right processes in place to ensure that they can meet the varying volume requirements of healthcare facilities. This lessens the burden of the HIM department to a significant level.

• Centralized solutions: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals have a centralized solution to their medical transcription needs. Factors like different turnaround time requirements, different report formats/ templates, addition of new specialties, addition of new healthcare professionals, different document delivery modes and any other medical transcription requirements are provided by the medical transcription service provider.

• Cost saving: Outsourcing medical transcription can help curb the cost of medical transcription in terms of both direct and indirect costs. In the long term the cost savings can play a significant role in improving the bottom-line of the healthcare facility. Outsourcing medical transcription also allows healthcare facilities to focus all their resources on their core business, which again adds to the profitability of the healthcare facility

• Mitigate staffing concerns: As medical transcription is a manpower intensive process requiring qualified, trained and skilled medical transcriptionists to meet the quality standards, outsourcing provides a ready made solution to the staffing problems faced by healthcare facilities in this regard.

Apart from the above benefits outsourced medical transcription services also have benefits like providing the right software and tools for medical transcription, adoption of EMR/EHR using HL7 interface, editing & proofreading services for speech recognition software created transcripts, providing convenient options for document delivery etc. Quality medical transcription also provides support for revenue management and risk management.

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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