Medical transcription outsourcing: Working as a team with healthcare services

Quality healthcare is the culmination of several factors, one of the main being the teamwork of healthcare professionals, support staff and other personnel. To be successful in terms of providing quality care and being profitable, healthcare services depend on proper documentation of the care process. Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records from the dictation of the patient- healthcare professional encounter. With a view to having an intense focus on their core business of providing healthcare and as a move to decreasing costs, outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription service provider has been found to be an effective solution for healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals.

Outsourcing medical transcription essentially provides healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities access to the vast resources of the medical transcription service provider with regard to expert medical transcriptionists, technology, best practices and other resources. In effect the personnel of the medical transcription service provider work as a team with the healthcare facility's team. In this instance the acronym of “TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More” would be an appropriate description of the synergistic effect of healthcare services teaming up with medical transcription services.

Given below are a few instances where medical transcription services work together as a team with healthcare professionals and other staff at the healthcare facility to bring about better results:

• Focus on patients: Teaming up with the right medical transcription service provider ensures that healthcare professionals can focus on the care process rather than the documentation process. Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide easy to use options for dictation and also provide editing & proofreading services for healthcare professionals using speech recognition software, leaving them free to focus on patients. Another vital outcome of outsourced medical transcription services is that of timely creation of patient medical records making it easy to be able to treat and track the progress of patients especially in case of long term care.

• Freeing up time: The process of medical transcription not only ensures that the time of healthcare professionals is freed up it also ensures that the time of other staff at the healthcare facility is freed up by providing the right software and tools for medical transcription. This includes features like automatic upload of dictation, diverse document delivery modes, features to enable tracking of work-in-progress, archives for searching older transcripts etc.

• Freeing up resources: Outsourcing medical transcription frees up the resources of the healthcare facility in terms of overheads like space allocation, utilities, equipment, management & administration personnel with regards to medical transcription.

• Reducing expenses: One of the biggest advantages of outsourcing medical transcription is that of cost reduction. The cost per line of transcription would be reduced by as much as 40%. Moreover outsourcing medical transcription also provides the additional advantage of converting fixed cost of medical transcription to variable costs based on usage.

• Consistent support:  Another major advantage of partnering with a professional medical transcription service provider is that of consistent support through the changing documentation scenario. Factors like adoption of EMR/ EHR are supported by outsourced medical transcription companies using HL7 interface. 

Teaming with the right medical transcription service provider can help healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals maximize efficiency, cash flow and increase profitability.

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 services.

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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