Medical transcription outsourcing: Makes the healthcare facility efficient

The main goals of a healthcare facility can be defined as providing quality care, education, innovation, research and customer service. The underlying objective is to attain these goals profitably. Many inputs are required by the healthcare facility to achieve their goals, like the qualification, skill level and experience of the healthcare professionals, the right equipments, adequate support staff and accurate & timely information. To provide quality care the healthcare facility has to strive to improve the efficiency of the healthcare professionals and support staff and reduce expenses on non-healthcare related activities.

Outsourcing medical transcription is an easy fix to improve the efficiency of the healthcare facility’s operations in the following ways:

Providing information to the healthcare professionals by creating patient records: Medical transcription is the process of creating records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter by converting audio records to text format.

Outsourced medical transcription improves the efficiency of patient record creation in the following ways:

a)Accuracy: A professional medical transcription service provider would ensure that information of the patient-healthcare professional encounter would be captured accurately by using skillful medical transcriptionists, multi level quality checks and a stringent quality policy. The information in the patient records helps the healthcare professionals make informed decisions on patient care, rather than rely on memory, hand written notes or inputs from the patients

b)Timely: A professional medical transcription service provider would ensure that patient records are created in a timely manner. This improves quality of care as well as quickens the reimbursement process

c)Secure: A professional medical transcription service provider would ensure that the confidentiality of the patient records is maintained throughout the process of transcription including the transmission, thus removing any concerns for HIPAA and HITECH violation during the transcription process

d)Flexible modes of dictation: By allowing the healthcare professionals to retain familiar modes of dictation, a professional medical transcription service provider would ensure that the healthcare professionals are able to make optimum use of their limited time

Restrict the cost of medical transcription to the cost per line of transcription: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the cost of transcription is restricted to price quoted by the service provider. Additional charges like overheads and cost of coordination can be avoided

Improve the productivity of support staff by streamlining transcription flow: A professional medical transcription service provider would ensure that the process of transcription starting with the upload of dictation files, transmission to the service provider and download of finished transcripts would take place in a systematic manner. This lessens the burden of the support staff. Additional features like powerful archival system would also ensure that locating files and tracking work-in-progress would be easy

Better utilization of resources: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that resources like real estate, Information technology staff, working capital, management staff etc. would be utilized efficiently instead of concentrating on medical transcription

It can be concluded that outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider can improve the efficiency of the healthcare facility enormously. Care has to be taken to source the right service provider and evaluate them on the basis of the various factors like accuracy, guaranteed turnaround time, security measures, cost per line of transcription and the technology used by the medical transcription service provider. These factors can be evaluated based on training methods used, quality policy, billing methods and the software & tools used by the medical transcription service provider.

TransDyne offers quality medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert 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!

For more details about the advantages of outsourcing to a professional medical transcription service provider like TransDyne, click here.