Medical transcription outsourcing: Helping create legible and complete records

The process of healthcare begins with the patient visit, which could be either a one off visit or part of an ongoing treatment process. In any case documenting the visit is very important for various purposes, including further treatment, for referral, for research purposes, as evidence in case of litigation and for reimbursement purposes. Keeping this in mind it is important for the patient medical record to reflect legible and complete record of the treatment purpose.

There are many options available to healthcare professionals for documenting the patient encounter like hand written notes, point & click entry, use of speech recognition software, but medical transcription especially when outsourced has proven to be one of the most convenient methods of documenting the patient encounter. Outsourcing medical transcription not only ensures creation of legible and complete creation of patient medical records but also ensures prompt delivery of transcripts at reasonable rates.

How do outsourced medical transcription services help create legible and complete records?

Neatly typed patient medical records in the required format: One of the advantages of outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription company is that they would be ensured of neatly typed patient medical records in the format required by the healthcare professional. This ensures that the information is legible and in a format that is the most convenient for the healthcare professional. Medical transcription service providers ensure that medical transcriptionists who are domain experts in a specific specialty undertake the transcription work. This means they have an in-depth understanding of the needs of the specialty and produce transcripts accordingly.

Patient medical records including the narrative: Many methods of documenting the patient encounter do not provide for the narrative to be part of the patient medical record. However medical transcription services ensure that the narrative portion of the encounter is recorded in its entirety. Including the narrative portion helps in various aspects like clinical decision-making, long-term care, risk management and receivables management.

Patient medical records that reflect accurate information: Outsourced medical transcription service providers use a stringent quality policy to ensure the highest accuracy possible. Accurate information is vital for both the care process and commercial aspects. Keeping this in mind medical transcription companies even provide editing and proofreading services for transcripts produced by speech recognition software.

It can be concluded that outsourcing medical transcription not only ensures creation of legible and complete transcripts but also provides the following advantages:

·       Lowering direct and indirect cost of transcription by more than 40%

·       Providing software and tools for transcription, which is easy to use

·       Hl7 interface for adoption of EMR/ EHR

·       HIPAA and HITECH compliant transcription

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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