Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing vital support

Healthcare is an important contributor to modern life; saving lives and improving the quality of life. With the increasing demand for healthcare services, the renewed emphasis of proper documentation of the care process and the move towards a wired healthcare system, pressures on the healthcare sector have increased.  There has been a lot of debate about doing away with the time-tested methods of documenting the care process and a move towards documentation at the point of care by the healthcare professional himself/ herself.

Though this method has certain merits, the wastage in terms of decreased healthcare professional productivity and diluted focus on the patients & the process of care makes this method impractical and unattractive. Medical transcription services have been helping healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals in documenting the care process for a long time. Over time transcription services have evolved into specialty services that have customized themselves around the work life of healthcare professionals and the healthcare facility operations. Apart from the convenience and increased productivity due to medical transcription services, outsourcing medical transcription has provided healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals with numerous advantages using a combination of the right teams, the right technology and the right process. 

Among the most significant benefits of outsourcing medical transcription the ones given below stand out as the most significant:

Clear: Outsourcing medical transcription helps produce clear and unambiguous patient medical records. Not only this, the process of medical transcription is very simple and clear making it very easy to use. The process of medical transcription starts with dictation of notes regarding the patient encounter. Dictation is one of the most preferred methods for healthcare professionals as it offers them convenience, flexibility and the option to record the narrative portion of the patient encounter. Having the narrative portion as part of the patient medical record enables better diagnosis.

Consistent: Outsourcing medical transcription produces consistent results. Healthcare professionals have the benefit of specialty trained medical transcriptionists expertly transcribing their dictation to ensure that the information in the records is consistent. Using trained teams and stringent quality processes, medical transcription service providers ensure consistent, accurate and prompt documentation

Complete: Documenting the care process using the services of a professional medical transcription company ensures that the documentation is complete including the distinctive points of the patient encounter. This ensures that the complete information is available for various purposes like billing, coding, as evidence in case of litigation and for future encounters.

Cost: One of the most significant benefits of outsourcing medical transcription is that of reducing the cost of transcription. Apart from this outsourcing medical transcription also ensuring that there is no wastage of resources, contributing to increasing the productivity of healthcare professionals and accelerating the reimbursement process.

Outsourcing medical transcription to the right medical transcription company provides numerous and long term benefits to healthcare facilities. Moreover medical transcription companies also help in the adoption of EMR/EHR using HL7 interface, while still enabling dictation- transcription as a means of documenting the care process.

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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