Medical transcription outsourcing: Creating valuable and relevant documentation

Healthcare is based on the premise of providing valuable services by drawing on quality inputs from various sources to meet the standards expected from it. To this end, every healthcare facility has to juggle various demands placed on it  - internally and externally. Some of the internal factors include the need to provide quality services, build up a good reputation, maximize profits and optimum utilization of resources available etc. External factors include fulfilling statutory and insurance requirements.

To this end, healthcare facilities have to concentrate on their core activity - that of providing quality care and outsource activities that are not part of the core business. Medical transcription – the process of creating legible, detailed and accurate patient medical records from the dictation of the healthcare professionals is one of them. Though there are numerous choices available to healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals to document the care process, outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription company has been found to be an option that helps create valuable and relevant documentation.

Outsourced medical transcription services help create valuable and relevant documentation that helps in all the aspects that the information from patient medical records is used for, like:

• Providing care: One of the main objectives for creating detailed patient medical records is to help the care process. Outsourced medical transcription services help in this by ensuring that all the details of the patient encounter are captured completely. Using transcription services to create patient medical records also ensures that the narrative portion of the patient encounter is totally captured, which helps in the care process and certain aspects of risk management.

• Automatic reminders and follow-up: The process of care could involve numerous visits or consultation with specialists etc. The detailed, accurate and timely records created by medical transcription service providers help in this aspect too.

• Storage and retrieval: The records created by medical transcription companies are periodically archived and access to these archives is provided to healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals. This enables easy search and retrieval options of older records using various criteria.

• Submission for reimbursement: Detailed patient medical records created by medical transcription services provide the basis for coding and reimbursements. The right documentation ensures that patient encounters are not under coded and ensures proper reimbursement

• Billing: Medical transcription services ensure proper documentation and this ensures that patients are billed for amounts that are not collected from insurance companies

Apart from these valuable and relevant aspects, outsourcing medical transcription services provide advantages like:

• Reducing costs: Outsourcing medical transcription also ensures that healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals save on both direct and indirect cost of transcription

• Lowering workload: Outsourcing medical transcription also reduces the burden of the support staff at the healthcare facility by providing support in the form of the right team, the right technology and the right process for medical transcription. This ensures accurate, prompt, secure and cost effective creation of patient medical records

• Aiding EMR adoption: Outsourced medical transcription service providers also help in the adoption of EMR/ EHR by using HL7 interface.

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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