Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing dynamic services

Medical transcription is a service that is associated with healthcare services, by documenting the patient- healthcare professional encounter. The process of medical transcription involves listening to the audio recording of the healthcare professional and transcribing it into text format. But the process of medical transcription goes beyond being a simple service of listening to the voice recordings of healthcare professionals and typing them out. Healthcare is a dynamic sector, where things are changing on a daily basis. As medical transcription is closely associated with the healthcare sector, medical transcription also needs to be able to cope with all the changes occurring in the healthcare sector.

Outsourcing medical transcription has always been considered an efficient, effective and economic solution for the documentation needs of a healthcare facility. However while outsourcing medical transcription it is important for the healthcare facility to not only evaluate the medical transcription service provider on the basis of criteria like accuracy, turnaround time, security and pricing but also needs to look for a service provider who can provide dynamic services to cope with the developments in the healthcare sector.

What is meant by dynamic medical transcription services?

Dynamic medical transcription implies a service provider who can cope with the changing needs of the healthcare field. This would mean adding benefits by using innovative technology and processes.

Some of the ways that outsourced medical transcription service provider have coped with the changing needs of healthcare facilities/ healthcare professionals by providing dynamic services are as follows:

• Flexible modes of dictation: Time is a scarce commodity for healthcare professionals, and outsourced medical transcription service providers have helped healthcare professionals cope with this situation by allowing them to use flexible and familiar modes of dictation. This allows healthcare professionals to make the best use of the limited time available to them

• Adding new specialties: Healthcare facilities are constantly adding on new specialties, the language of each specialty is unique. Acknowledging this, outsourced medical transcription service provider have trained their medical transcriptionists to be specialists in one or two specialties enabling them to produce quality transcripts within the required turnaround time

• Modes of document delivery: Outsourced medical transcription service provider have provided varied modes of delivering transcripts, ensuring that the healthcare professionals have access to transcripts in a timely and secure manner.

• Archiving for tracing transcripts: Healthcare professionals and support staff have to spend a lot of time tracing dictation, work-in-progress and finished transcripts. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have solved this problem by providing convenient archives to enable healthcare professionals and support staff to trace transcripts easily

• Varied turnaround time requirements: outsourced medical transcription service providers have coped with the varied turnaround time requirements of the healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals by having the right mix of a huge pool of manpower who have been trained to be specialists and using the right technology

• Adoption of EMR/EHR: Medical transcription service providers have enabled healthcare facilities to save on their existing investments in EMR/EHR by having HL7 interface. 

It can be seen that while outsourcing medical transcription it is important to source a provider who can use the right combination of the right team the right processes and the right technology to cope with the dynamic healthcare sector.

TransDyne a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry offers dynamic medical transcription services that help healthcare facilities enhance their productivity. 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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