In the recent past healthcare has seen many changes in the documentation processes required of it. The move towards adopting a nationwide electronic healthcare system has had healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals scrambling to achieve the requirements specified by the meaningful use criteria. Medical transcription can play an important role in this process given the enormous expertise and experience that this industry has amassed. As a service medical transcription has evolved through its understanding of the working life of healthcare professionals and through constant innovations in software and tools used for medical transcription.
The experience of the medical transcription sector combined with their understanding of the healthcare facilities' operations can help medical transcription service providers provide services that use a combination of well trained medical transcriptionists, advanced & easy to use technology and stringent quality assurance processes for the best results. The inputs provided by medical transcription companies to the process of documenting the healthcare process includes:
- Knowledge of medicine: As medical transcription is a process closely associated with a critical service like healthcare it becomes imperative that medical transcriptionists have knowledge of medical terms, abbreviations, drugs etc. Outsourced medical transcription service providers ensure that teams of trained and qualified medical transcriptionists with specific knowledge of the specialty they are transcribing in are available to help document the care process.
- Understanding the needs of healthcare professionals: Outsourced medical transcription service providers are well versed with the needs of healthcare professionals. Combining this understanding with the best of technology has enabled service providers to provide services that have advantages like flexible modes of dictation, customized turnaround time, varied document delivery modes, reports in specified formats/ templates, easy access to older transcripts etc. Outsourced medical transcription service providers also provide editing and proofreading services for healthcare professionals using speech recognition software.
- Eye for detail: The accuracy of the information captured in the patient medical record is critical for many aspects; clinical, operational and commercial. It is important for patient medical records to have details of the patient encounter to enable the data to be used for all these aspects. Medical transcriptionists are specially trained to ensure that detailed patient medical records are created to reflect the entire patient story.
- Critical analytical skills: The process of creating patient medical records requires medical transcriptionists to be alert and knowledgeable. Outsourced medical transcription service providers ensure that medical transcriptionists are well trained to critically analyze the patient medical record and correct any inconsistencies that may inadvertently occur. This ensures that all details are captured accurately and consistently
- Adaptability to changing needs: Given the changing healthcare documentation scenario it is important for medical transcription service providers to be prepared to meet the challenges head on. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have geared all their resources to meet the changing needs of the healthcare sector including adoption of EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface.
It can be concluded that medical transcription service providers provide meaningful support to healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals by combining their understanding of the healthcare sector's needs, their experience and their expertise.
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 services.
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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