Medical transcription outsourcing: Helping build a connected healthcare community

There has been a lot said about the state of healthcare and the need to build an electronic healthcare system, which encourages easy exchange of information across diverse networks without losing the meaning of the information during the course of exchange. To this end there has been a lot of work going on to ensure that healthcare information can be exchanged across networks without losing the essence of the information during the process.

As the healthcare sector relies heavily on information from patient medical records for various aspects, it is important for the process of creating patient medical records to support the objectives of accuracy, accessibility and security.

Outsourced medical transcription services have always supported the healthcare sector by providing services that meet all these criteria while still enabling healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities to retain their familiar modes of capturing information – dictation, option to retain the narrative portion of the patient's story among numerous other benefits.

There are many factors that support the need for a connected healthcare system and medical transcription services plays a significant role in fulfilling the need. Given below are some of the important reasons for a connected healthcare system and the role of medical transcription in providing support for the same:

• Healthcare professional referrals: One of the underlying advantages of a connected healthcare system is the ease with which primary care healthcare professionals are able to refer the patients to specialists for further treatment. This benefits the patient in terms of better quality care and benefits healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals in terms of increased revenues. Outsourced medical transcription services aid in this by ensuring that detailed transcripts are made available to healthcare professionals on time and even providing for delivery options where the same transcript can be authorized to be made available to more than one healthcare professional simultaneously saving on time and resources, substantially.

• Engaging the patient in the healthcare process: Part of engaging the patient in the healthcare process is to ensure that each patient story is identifiable individually. To do so the narrative portion of the patient encounter needs to be preserved. Medical transcription services encourage healthcare professionals to use free form dictation, which not only enhances the diagnostic process but also helps in the care process. Detailed and accurate information is the key to quality of care.

• Healthcare reform: Healthcare reform requires total transparency and accountability for which information in patient medical record is the key. Medical transcription ensures that all the nuances of the care process are recorded accounting for all the participants. And also helps in adoption of EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface

• Payment reform: It is a known fact that the basis for payment is proper documentation and that records generate revenue. To this end medical transcription is the process that believes in completely and consistently recording the facts of the patient encounter.

• Accountable care: By properly identifying the healthcare professionals and support staff involved in the care process, outsourced medical transcription services ensure accountable care and also provide vital support for risk management.

• Avoiding disconnected information: Outsourced medical transcription ensures that all the information regarding patients is uniquely identified and easily accessible by archiving them and enabling search using various criteria.

It can be seen that documenting the care process using a professional medical transcription service provider can result in improved outcomes, compliance and reimbursements.

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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