Healthcare services have had an impact on many aspects of our lives by providing services that help save lives and improve the quality of life. Such important services in turn depend on proper and complete documentation to be able to cope with increasing demands for services and to meet statutory obligations. Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records from the dictation of the healthcare professionals' encounter with patients. Medical transcription is a specialized service requiring focused resources like well trained medical transcriptionists, the right technology and the right quality assurance process to ensure optimum services.
Considering the limited resources available to healthcare facilities outsourcing medical transcription has been found to be the most effective option having the right impact on the operations of the healthcare facility.
Effective services
- Remote services: With the advent of the Internet, healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals have the option to source the right medical transcription services from all over the world. This not only provides healthcare facilities the option to choose the right service provider based on their specific requirements but also avail the benefit of a global talent pool.
- Flexible services: It is impossible for healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals to predict the medical transcription volume at any given time. Outsourcing medical transcription offers healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals flexible options not only regarding volume but also other factors like turnaround time options, dictation devices, delivery modes etc.
- Cost effective services: One of the foremost advantage of outsourcing medical transcription is that of reducing the cost of transcription substantially without adversely affecting the quality of services
Right impact
- Improved bottom-line: Outsourcing medical transcription has an significant impact on the bottom-line of the healthcare facility in the long-term by significantly reducing costs, converting the fixed cost of transcription to variable costs and saving on indirect cost like infrastructure, Information technology and management resources used for the medical transcription process.
- Faster reimbursements: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the process of creating patient medical records follows a systematic procedure that ensures that quality transcripts are created on time as part of an automatic process. Timely creation of patient medical records has a positive impact on the coding and billing process thus helping accelerate reimbursements.
- Increased focus: By outsourcing medical transcription the healthcare facility and the healthcare professionals can focus on the core business of providing quality care without having to dilute their focus on the process of medical transcription. Medical transcription service providers further help healthcare professionals focus on providing quality care by enabling adoption of EMR/EHR using HL7 interface.
- Risk management: Having the narrative portion of the patient encounter as part of patient medical record helps retain the complete patient story. Outsourced medical transcription services enable this; retaining the entire patient story in turn aids in certain aspects of risk management.
It can be seen that outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider provides effective services that have a positive impact on several aspects of the healthcare facility's operations.
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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