The current healthcare scenario calls for the adoption of an electronic healthcare system with a view to mainly enable easy information sharing, better patient safety and reduced cost of care among numerous other objectives. Keeping this in mind healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals are gearing themselves for the adoption EMR/ EHR to achieve the meaningful use objectives. However the process of adopting EMR/EHR is an arduous one and can lead to loss of productivity, dilution of focus on patients and incomplete capture of information in the patient records.
Medical transcription services play an important role in the adoption of an electronic healthcare system. Medical transcription has been an important service enabling smooth delivery of healthcare services by helping document the care process. Medical transcription is a specialized skill that benefits by being outsourced to a professional service provider. Outsourced medical transcription services not only ensure accurate, prompt, secure and cost- effective creation of patient medical records but also ease the path to EMR/ EHR adoption.
Moreover using outsourced medical transcription services to document the care process has the following advantages:
· Increasing the productivity of healthcare professionals: Using the services of a professional medical transcription company to document the care process enables healthcare professionals to concentrate on the care process rather than on documentation enabling them to increase their productivity
· Better focus on patients: Using the services of a medical transcription company to document rather than using point and click menu enables the healthcare professional to focus on the patient resulting in better care and patient satisfaction.
· Preserving the narrative: Documenting the patient encounter using the services of professional medical transcription company ensures that the entire patient story including the narrative is recorded. Having the narrative included as part of patient medical record results in better care, easier coding & billing and provides valuable support for risk management.
Apart from these advantages, given below are some of the features of medical transcription services that ease the way to EMR/ EHR adoption:
Speech recognition software transcription: Medical transcription companies have started providing editing and proofreading services for transcripts created by speech recognition software. This ensures that the transcripts created using speech recognition software meet acceptable accuracy standards.
HL7 interface: Using HL7 interface, medical transcription companies have the capability to interface with most EMR/ EHR systems enabling easy adoption. This service is provided with no additional charges
HIPAA and HITECH compliance: Medical transcription companies maintain HIPAA and HITECH compliance throughout the medical transcription process ensuring compliance
It can be seen that outsourcing medical transcription creates an easy, efficient and economical path to EMR/ EHR adoption.
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.
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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