With the rapidly approaching deadlines for the adoption of EMR/ EHR, healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities are constantly looking for ways and means of complying with the mandate with minimum disruption to their work flow. Healthcare professionals intuitively show an inclination towards the dictation- transcription method of documenting the care process as it is convenient and helps retain the narrative portion of the patient encounter.
However the reports created by the medical transcription process though detailed and clear do not comply completely with the meaningful use criteria. Discrete reportable transcription has been introduced as a means to bridge this gap. Discrete reportable transcription converts transcription into discrete data elements and these are parsed into the relevant areas in the EMR/ EHR using XML.
Discrete reportable transcription has emerged as a solution for the needs of healthcare professionals who can benefit from the experience and expertise of the medical transcription company while achieving the meaningful use criteria. Given below are some of the requirements of meaningful use criteria that can be met with using discrete reportable transcription:
- Quality measures
- Decision support
- Clinical summaries
- Medication lists
- Allergy lists
- Problem lists
- Vital signs tracking
- Demographics
- Smoking status
- Patients list by conditions
- Medication reconciliation
- Patient summary
- Electronic syndromic surveillance data.
It can be concluded that the use of discrete reportable transcription brings healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities closer to the achievement of meaningful use and adoption of EMR/ EHR.
Apart from this Discrete reportable transcription offers all the advantages of conventional medical transcription, which include:
The benefit of accurate transcription: As compared to other methods of documenting the care process, outsourced medical transcription services offer higher accuracy using skilled medical transcriptionists and intense quality processes. This ensures that the data parsed into the EMR/ EHR is accurate.
Transcription within strict timelines: Medical transcription companies ensure that the turnaround time specified by the healthcare professional are adhered to ensuring timely services.
Security throughout the transcription process: HIPAA and HITECH compliance are one of the main concerns of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities. Medical transcription companies ensure security of data throughout the transcription process by securing technology, processes, people and infrastructure.
Technology support: Medical transcription requires the support of robust technology to be convenient and easy to use. Medical transcription companies ensure this by using software and tools that provide maximum benefits while still remaining easy to use.
Reduction in cost: Using the services of a reliable and professional medical transcription company ensures that the healthcare facility can save substantially on costs.
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.
Among the software and tools offered by TransDyne for transcription, the smart delivery system has a large role to play in easing the path to EMR/EHR adoption The Smart Delivery system, which has features like User defined folder paths to enable easy imports to EMR systems is the suggested mode of document delivery where pre-defined file saving would help import documents to EMR systems. Apart from this TransDyne also offers discounted rates for those healthcare facilities that provide demographic data entered in the EMR rather than through other modes.
Along with medical transcription services involving multiple level quality checks to ensure accuracy, the use of the right technology for ease of use, turnaround time and security, at reasonable rates, TransDyne also provides discrete reportable transcription for adoption of EMR/ EHR.
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