Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Medical transcription services: Orthopedics

Medical transcription is a back office function that assists healthcare professionals in creating accurate and speedy records of patient visits. Medicine is a vast and complex field having various specialties. The terminology, treatment procedures and the drugs used in each specialty are different. That is why healthcare professionals train for a particular specialty to become specialists in that field

Orthopedics is the study of musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic doctors specialize in diagnosis and treatment of problems of the musculoskeletal systems. The musculoskeletal system includes bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles and nerves.

Medical transcription for orthopedics requires medical transcriptionists to be well versed in the terminology and familiar with the treatment modes and drugs used. Recognizing the need for professional and skilled medical transcriptionists to transcribe records dictated by orthopedic doctors and surgeons, TransDyne has created a team of medical transcriptionists specializing in Orthopedics.

Medical transcriptionists are hand picked during the training period and trained to learn in detail, the terminology, procedures and drugs associated with orthopedics.

How does specialty training in Orthopedics transcription affect accuracy?
Training a medical transcriptionist in orthopedics transcription helps increase accuracy of the finished transcript, by familiarizing the medical transcriptionist with all the terminology and procedures associated with orthopedics. This ensures that the medical transcriptionist does not misspell or misunderstand any of the terms used by the healthcare professionals. The medical transcriptionist is able to produce accurate records from the very beginning without leaving room for guesswork.

How does specialty training in Orthopedics transcription affect turnaround time?
Turnaround time refers to the time taken to revert the transcribed report to the healthcare facility. By familiarizing the medical transcriptionist with all the terminology used in orthopedics, the turnaround time can be maintained due to the familiarity of the medical transcriptionist with the associated terms and cutting down time spent on research. Moreover the time spent on multi level quality checks would also reduce, reducing the turnaround time.

How does specialty training in Orthopedics transcription affect pricing?
Specialty training in orthopedics transcription can help bring down cost per line of transcription, by increasing the productivity of the medical transcriptionist. Moreover due to the increased accuracy of the transcripts the cost of several level quality checks can be reduced.

Apart from offering accurate, timely and reasonably priced orthopedics transcription, TransDyne also offers the following:

Data Security: TransDyne ensures security by incorporating security measures like 128-bit data encryption, multi-tiered application architecture, design level security, safeguards, firewall protected networks, sterilized e-mail servers, denial of access procedure and multi modal alerts.

TransDyne further ensures data security by ensuring that data doesn’t leave its premises physically. To ensure secure medical transcription all the transcription is done in TransDyne’s premises and the premises are secured through appropriate security measures. TransDyne meets and exceeds all the HIPAA regulations.

Technology: TransDyne believes that the technology used for medical transcription like uploading dictation and downloading finished transcripts should be advanced to ensure reliability, but very easy to use requiring very less or no training. TransDyne also has a system with powerful archival features enabling the healthcare professional to easily trace old records. TransDyne also facilitates HL7 interface for interacting with other systems.

To avail Orthopedics medical transcription services from TransDyne, click here.

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