Medical transcription outsourcing: Integrating naturally into the workflow of healthcare facilities

Medical transcription services have aided the process of providing healthcare by documenting the patient- healthcare professional encounter, converting audio to text in an accurate, timely, secure and cost effective manner. As medical transcription services require the right team, the right process and the right technology to be able to meet all these criteria, the prudent and practical solution for healthcare facilities to maintain focus on their core business is to outsource the entire process to a professional medical transcription service provider.

While transcribing audio to text is the essence of the services provided by medical transcription service providers, medical transcription has risen above being just a typing service by seamlessly integrating into the workflow of healthcare facilities. To examine how medical transcription has blended seamlessly into the working of healthcare facilities it is essential to take a look at the changing face of clinical documentation.

With the introduction of ARRA and the announcement of incentives for the meaningful use of certified EHR/EMR systems, the entire healthcare documentation scenario is going through major changes. However as adoption of this new technology involves time- starved healthcare professionals there have been a few barriers to adopting this technology, namely:

• Lack of time: One of the barrier to adopting new technology is the lack of time; healthcare professionals lack the time to acquaint themselves with the technology and moreover using this new technology can adversely affect their productivity

• Need for new infrastructure: Using point and click templates to feed information into the EHR at the point of care needs new infrastructure which could affect the dynamics of the process of healthcare

• Extensive training: Use of technology to be used by the healthcare professional at the point of care could require extensive training to produce the required results

• Requiring major changes in the workflow: The introduction of new technology would require in the workflow of the healthcare professional and the healthcare facility. 

Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that healthcare professionals can retain their tried and trusted method of capturing information and still enable adoption of EMR/EHR by using HL7 interface.

Some of the advantages of outsourcing medical transcription to a technologically savvy and professional medical transcription service provider are:

• Familiar method of documenting the patient- healthcare professional encounter: Outsourcing medical transcription enables healthcare professionals to retain not only their familiar method of documenting the patient encounter, but also allows them to use dictation devices of their choice. This enables healthcare professionals to optimize their limited time in the best way possible.

• Quality creation of patient medical records: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the quality of patient medical records is maintained due to the following: 

1.     Medical transcriptionists trained in the specialty they are transcribing in, ensure that errors are minimized

2.     Quality processes involving checks at several levels ensure that quality levels are high

3.     Turnaround time is ensured due to availability of skilled medical transcriptionists and the right technology

• Flexible services: Outsourced medical transcription services afford healthcare facilities flexibility with regard to all aspects of transcription including specialty, volume, turnaround time, formats/templates and even editing/proofreading services for speech recognition software transcription. 

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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