Medical transcription outsourcing: Adding value by improving operations

The current healthcare scenario requires maximum efficiency to be able to meet all the demands placed on it. With the numerous and often contradictory demands placed on the healthcare sector, it becomes important for healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals to improve operations. One of the factors that contribute to the smooth running of healthcare facilities is information from patient medical records. Information from patient medical records forms the basis for treatment, for reimbursement and for managing risks.

Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records by processing the data from the dictation of the healthcare professionals from the patient encounter into information in text format. Outsourcing medical transcription has been found to be an effective solution to help improve the operations of healthcare facilities. Outsourced medical transcription services help improve operations by adding value to the process.

Some of the areas that positively benefit from medical transcription outsourcing are:

• Maximizing human resources: Outsourcing medical transcription provides healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals with access to host of transcription personnel including medical transcriptionists, proofreaders, editors and other quality control personnel. Apart from the transcription team, healthcare facilities also have access to technical and managerial resources of the medical transcription service provider. This helps them to use their human resources towards managing their core business of providing quality care. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures accurate transcription and prompt turnaround time while leaving the support staff free to concentrate on other areas.

• Improve productivity: Managing transcription involves several activities including collection of dictation, the actual transcription process, managing quality and document delivery. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that there is an easy to use setup for all these steps involving minimum effort from the staff of the healthcare facility. This helps them improve their productivity by leaving them free to concentrate on other activities. Outsourcing medical transcription also provides transcription for weekends and holidays. Medical transcription companies also provide editing and proofreading for speech recognition software created transcripts.  Technologically savvy medical transcription companies also help in adopting EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface.

• Reduce errors: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures high quality transcription. Accurate transcription is a product of quality improvement at every stage beginning from recruitment and training to multilevel quality checks. Accurate patient medical records form the basis of quality care and better coding & billing, leading to better reimbursements. Accurate and detailed records also provide an useful defense in case of litigation.

• Improve overall patient care: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures accurate, prompt and secure creation of patient medical records. All these factors contribute towards improving patient care. Moreover outsourcing medical transcription also ensures substantial reduction on direct and indirect costs of transcription, which helps in improved resource utilization leading to improvement in patient care.

Choosing and outsourcing medical transcription to a professional and reliable medical transcription company can add value to the healthcare process.

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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