Medical transcription outsourcing: Empowering healthcare to perform better

There have been a lot of discussions in the recent past about the importance of medical transcription services, some defending the need for these services while some dismissing the need for medical transcription in the healthcare documentation scenario. At this juncture when healthcare and healthcare documentation are poised at a critical point, it is important to acknowledge the role played by medical transcription services in the healthcare process and the important part it will continue to play in the future of healthcare documentation.

While admittedly medical transcription is part of the expenses and does not have a direct role to play in the actual process of providing care or for that matter generating revenues, it plays a vital role in empowering healthcare professionals, other support staff and the management of healthcare facilities in achieving these goals.  As the creation of patient medical records – medical transcription is a specialized process requiring concentration of capital, technology, personnel and other inputs, outsourcing medical transcription to a professional service provider provides an easy and economic solution to healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals.

How do outsourced medical transcription services empower the healthcare process?

Outsourcing medical transcription empowers healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals in the following areas:

• Access to the right team: Medical transcription is a people-intensive process requiring skilled and well-trained teams of medical transcriptionists. Outsourcing ensures that the responsibility of sourcing, recruiting, hiring and training the right team rests on the outsourced medical transcription service provider. By outsourcing medical transcription work healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities automatically have access to skilled and specialty trained medical transcriptionists. Outsourcing medical transcription also provides healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals access to other personnel like the administrative and managerial staff of the medical transcription service provider.

• Access to the right process: To ensure efficient and accurate medical transcription, a due process to ensure quality needs to be adopted. Outsourcing ensures that healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals have access to the best practices adopted by the service provider. The various steps involved in medical transcription like allocation of work to the right medical transcriptionist team, quality assurance processes are also essentially outsourced to the service provider.

• Access to the right technology: Technology has become an integral part of medical transcription making the process easier, quicker and more secure. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals have full access to the software and tools used by the service provider. Benefits like the usage of dictation devices of the healthcare professionals’ choice, automatic upload of audio files for dictation, document delivery mode options, archives and adoption EMR/EHR using HL7 interface are some of the advantages of the technology used by the medical transcription service provider. Moreover the medical transcription service provider also provides for the security of the data during the process of transcription.

• Access to the experience and expertise of the medical transcription service provider: Medical transcription has evolved over the years to a sophisticated service adapting to the new developments like providing editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software etc. Outsourcing provides healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals access to the experience and expertise of the medical transcription service provider.

Outsourcing medical transcription empowers healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals in various aspects like clinical decision-making, receivables 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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