The healthcare process is a culmination of various skills, equipments, drugs, procedures and various processes. The quality of each of these factors affects the outcome of the healthcare encounter in terms of quality of care and profitability. One of the processes that play an important role in the healthcare process by creating detailed patient medical records is medical transcription. Medical transcription is a process that has a significant if indirect role in improving the quality of care provided to patients and improving the receivables cycle.
As medical transcription is a process that requires constant mobilization of resources like medical transcriptionists and the right technology, this process benefits from being outsourced. Outsourcing medical transcription helps healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals save on time, effort and costs. Moreover outsourcing medical transcription also improves overall coordination. Given below are some of the areas in which outsourced medical transcription improves overall coordination:
Providing a one-stop shop for all transcription requirements: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that all the transcription needs of the healthcare facility are taken care of at one point. This includes:
1. Accurate transcription service for all specialties: Medical transcription companies recognize that the language of each specialty is different and medical transcriptionists are trained to be domain experts in one or two specialties keeping in mind the transcription needs of each specialty
2. Meeting different turnaround time requirements: The turnaround time requirements for healthcare professionals could vary based on the situation, some situations warranting shorter turnaround times than others. The outsourced medical transcription service provider would provide for all these requirements
3. Weekend and holiday transcription: Arranging for weekend and holiday transcription needs would require a lot of effort. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that these requirements are taken care of by the service provider, helping improve overall coordination.
Providing a easy to manage transcription system: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals are provided with transcription platform that not only provides all benefits but is also easy to use, including factors like:
1. Providing for flexible modes of dictation
2. Automatic upload of dictation files for transcription on a regular basis
3. Document delivery modes as specified by the healthcare professionals
4. A system for keeping track of dictation, work-in-progress, finished transcripts etc
5. Archives for accessing older transcripts
Providing services according to changing needs: Keeping in mind the changing horizon of healthcare documentation, outsourced medical transcription companies also provide services that include these requirements, like:
1. Editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software
2. HL7 interface for adoption of EMR/ EHR
It can be concluded that outsourced medical transcription to a professional and technologically savvy medical transcription company can help the healthcare facility improve overall coordination leading to better operations.
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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