Medical transcription outsourcing: A balanced approach towards healthcare documentation

The process of healthcare requires many specialized inputs both in terms of healthcare related skills and experience and other aspects like consumables, pharmaceuticals and documentation. Healthcare documentation is an important contributor to many aspects of healthcare like clinical decision-making, risk management and receivables management. Healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities have various options available to them for documenting the care process including having an in-house medical transcription department, speech recognition software, entry at the point of care using point & click templates and the option of availing specialized medical transcription services from a professional medical transcription service provider.

Each option has its own advantages and disadvantages; however outsourced medical transcription services from a professional service provider provides the right balance of quality and price while remaining remarkably flexible.

In what aspects do outsourced medical transcription service providers provide a balanced approach to documenting the healthcare process?

Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide a balanced approach to the documentation of the healthcare professional- patient encounter by offering services with the following benefits:

• Option to retain dictation as the method of capturing information: Outsourced medical transcription service providers allow healthcare professionals the option to use dictation as the method of capturing the patient encounter. This helps the healthcare professionals in not only managing their limited time efficiently, but also ensures that the narrative portion of the patient medical record is recorded in detail. Capturing the narrative ensures that the entire patient story is captured helping in continued care, referring to other healthcare professionals, billing and also risk management

• Offering the choice to use preferred mode of dictation: Outsourced medical transcription service providers allow healthcare professionals to retain their preferred mode of dictation making it very convenient. Medical transcription service providers even accommodate the use of speech recognition software by providing editing and proofreading services to help bring the accuracy of the transcript to acceptable levels.

• Providing accurate and timely service irrespective of the volume: Outsourced medical transcription service providers can cope with the varying volumes of transcription requirement without compromising on the accuracy levels or turnaround time. This helps healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities in managing limited resources efficiently.

• Low cost services: One of the main advantages of outsourcing medical transcription is that of lowering cost of medical transcription substantially. This is a major advantage given the challenges faced by the healthcare sector.

• Allowing adoption of EMR: Outsourced medical transcription service providers allow for adoption of EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface while still allowing healthcare professionals to document the care process using the familiar method of dictation to transcription.

• Ensuring HIPAA and HITECH compliance: One of the concerns of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities is the need to protect confidential patient information. Outsourced medical transcription service providers ensure HIPAA and HITECH compliance mitigating the concerns of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities during the medical transcription process. 

It can be seen that outsourced medical transcription services help healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities maintain a balance between quality documentation and lowering costs by providing accurate, timely, cost-effective and secure services

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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