It is a known fact that outsourcing medical transcription helps doctors and other healthcare professionals by providing them with timely, accurate and secure transcripts of patient medical records at reasonable costs. Timely and accurate creation of patient records help healthcare professionals in providing quality care to their patients by providing pertinent details about the patient like demographics, pre-existing health conditions, past diagnosis, procedures/tests undertaken, medications, allergies etc. This helps the healthcare professional make informed decisions instead of relying on his/her memory or inputs from patients.
That apart, medical transcription benefits other members of the healthcare facility by providing value added services.
How does outsourcing medical transcription benefit other members of the healthcare facility?
Outsourcing medical transcription has the added advantage of advanced software and tools used by the medical transcription service provider. These add value to medical transcription services in the following areas:
· Archives: In healthcare facilities with a large amount of activities due to varied inflow of patients it is quite difficult to trace transcripts. It would require the support staff to walk down to archives and having to manually search through patient records to trace the particular record that is required. Outsourced service providers have come up with a simple solution by providing archival features.
The files received from the healthcare facility are kept in the medical transcription systems of the service provider for a certain period of time, after which they are archived. The amount of time that these files stay archived can be determined by the healthcare facility. Searching for files becomes easy as an user is allowed to search from the archives for a document based on different criteria like date of service, date of dictation, MRN #, patient name or combination of any of these criteria.
· Job summary: It is difficult for the staff at the healthcare facility to keep track of dictation, the number of documents in a dictation and receipt of transcripts. Outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription service provider would ensure that they have a system in place that provided them with a job summary, making it easy for the support staff at the healthcare facility to keep track of the summary of the dictations sent, the transcripts received and the pending jobs.
· Transparent billing: Billing for medical transcription has always been a confusing areas having too many variables. Outsourcing to a medical transcription service provider who uses a verifiable, measurable, definable, consistent, fair and honest billing method can help ease the worries of the healthcare facility regarding the billing procedure. A professional service provider would ensure that the healthcare facility is clear on the billing method and explain all the components of cost to the healthcare facility staff to ensure that everybody is on the same page.
· Upload of files: Outsourcing medical transcription to a service provider who uses advanced technology can provide easy to use benefits like automatic upload of dictation. The system could be set for checking for dictation files at predefined intervals as per the requirements of the healthcare facility.
· Integration with EMR: A medical transcription service provider having resources and tolls like HL7 interface could aid the healthcare facility in adopting EMR systems.
It can be seen by outsourcing to a tech savvy medical transcription service provider, healthcare facilities can avail numerous benefits apart from that of accurate, timely, secure and cost-effective medical transcription services.
TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has used their extensive background in information technology to come up with medical transcription services that provide easy to use solutions for the needs of healthcare professionals and other staff of the healthcare facilities. 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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