Medical transcription outsourcing : Helping the requirements of healthcare documentation

Medical transcription has provided valuable support to healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals by helping in the healthcare documentation process. Medical transcription is the process of converting the audio records of the patient- healthcare professional encounter into text format. As medical transcription is a specialized process requiring the right blend of people skills, the right technology and an efficient process to meet the quality standards of being accurate, timely, secure and cost effective, the easy solution for healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities is to outsource the entire medical transcription requirements to a professional medical transcription service provider

Moreover this method of dictation being transcribed into text format to form a part of the permanent patient record has been the method preferred by most healthcare professionals, as this method provides many advantages, some of which are given below:

• Usability: The convenience of using outsourced medical transcription services to create patient medical records is undeniable. Outsourced medical transcription not only benefit healthcare professionals but they also provide numerous benefits to other members of the healthcare facility by providing a system for medical transcription which uses technology to provide maximum benefits while still being easy to use.
• Healthcare professional acceptance: The expectation of healthcare professionals from medical transcription services apart from accurate, timely, secure and cost effective record creation is that of allowing them to maximize their limited time resources. Outsourced medical transcription services aid in this by allowing them to retain the familiar method of dictation and make it even more convenient to capture the narration of the patient- healthcare professional encounter by allowing them to retain familiar modes of dictation. Outsourced medical transcription services also provide convenient modes of document delivery as per the preference of healthcare professionals and healthcare facility.
• Meeting expectations: Outsourced medical transcription services meet the expectation of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities from these services. They do so by providing the following benefits:

1. Specialty trained medical transcriptionists
2. Seamless transcription services including holiday and weekend requirements
3. Transmitting information into EMR/EHR using HL7 interface
4. Securing information by having HIPAA/ HITECH compliant measures in place

• Interoperability: The process of medical transcription creates patient records which are legible and easily readable. This makes this information accessible and comprehensible to healthcare professionals and other support staff at every level. HL7 interface enables easy exchange of data with other systems without changing the essential meaning of the information.
• Data integrity: Outsourced medical transcription services help preserve the integrity of the data by ensuring that the audio files of the patient- healthcare professional encounter is captured in totality, in an accurate, complete, clear, consistent, precise and reliable.

TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has utilized their extensive background in information technology and their experience in providing medical transcription services to come up with medical transcription solutions that help healthcare facilities save on time, money and effort. 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!

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