Medical transcription outsourcing: Laying the foundation for quality care

In every area of business, information and communication have become essential to achieve success. The healthcare sector is no different; information and proper access to this information is the cornerstone for providing quality services as well as achieving commercial success. Due to the advent of the Internet and innovations in technology it has become possible for healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals to have numerous options for documenting the patient encounter, which then forms the base for quality care and for other purposes like coding, billing, risk management, quality reporting, clinical studies and research purposes etc.

Among the numerous options available to healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities to document the care process - medical transcription, the process of converting the dictation of healthcare professionals to text format has proven to be one of the most convenient options. Due to the many constraints on the limited time and resources available to healthcare facilities, outsourced medical transcription to a professional medical transcription service provider has been found to be a prudent decision.

Outsourcing medical transcription helps lay the foundation for quality care by creating quality patient medical records at low costs.

How do outsourced medical transcription services provide a foundation for quality care?

Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide a foundation for quality care by providing services that ensure the following:

·       Efficiency: Outsourcing medical transcription helps ensure efficiency through the following means:

         

1.     Using dictation as method of capturing the details of the patient encounter helps healthcare professionals save on time, and this helps in improving efficiency

2.     The use of software and tools for automatic upload of dictation, delivery of transcripts helps save the time of healthcare professionals and support staff.

3.     Archiving of files on a predetermined interval of time ensures that healthcare professionals and support staff have easy access to older transcripts.

·       Clarity: Outsourced medical transcription services help improve the clarity of patient medical records by ensuring the entire patient story is recorded including the narrative. This provides healthcare professionals with a clear picture regarding the patient making each patient story distinctive and clear.

·       Accuracy: Capturing all the details regarding the patient accurately is very important for all aspects. Detailed patient medical records not only ensure clear communication among the various participants in the care process but also provide an important support for risk management. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that errors are minimized and the patient medical records reflect accurate information

·       Usability: Among all the options available for documenting the patient encounter, outsourced medical transcription services are easiest to use requiring the minimum amount of training. Medical transcription services are also flexible and adapt to the changes occurring in the technology used for documentation like providing editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software transcription. Medical transcription services also support adoption of EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface.

It can be seen that quality medical transcription services can help provide a strong foundation for quality care by ensuring accurate, timely, secure and cost-effective creation of patient medical records. Medical transcription services provide further support by using easy to use technology that provides numerous benefits like customized delivery of transcripts, easy tracking of work-in-progress etc.

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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