Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing resourceful solutions

Healthcare is an ever-changing service having to cope with new diseases/health conditions, new cures/treatments and also the external developments like statutory requirements & regulations. It is important for healthcare as well as other services associated with healthcare to be resourceful so as to cope with changes as they occur. Medical transcription is an important support service aiding healthcare by creating patient records from the audio recordings of the healthcare professionals of the patient- healthcare professionals encounter.

The process of medical transcription is essential to the healthcare process by assuring that comprehensive information is captured to enable healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities to use this information in various ways. The information in patient records is not only essential for providing continued care but is also essential for coding and billing purposes. The process of medical transcription can be made efficient, effective and economical by outsourcing to a professional medical transcription service provider. This not only ensures accurate and timely creation of patient records it also ensures that the medical transcription service provider comes up with resourceful solutions for the needs of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities.

How does outsourcing medical transcription provide resourceful solutions?

Outsourcing ensures that the various issues faced by healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities during the creation of patient medical records are solved in an effective and imaginative manner.

What are the resourceful solutions provided by the outsourced medical transcription service provider?

• Flexible modes of dictation: Time is a scarce commodity for healthcare professionals, realizing this and understanding the need of healthcare professionals to optimize their limited time resources, outsourced medical transcription service providers offer healthcare professionals to retain their familiar modes of dictation. This enables them to use their regular mode of dictation as per their convenient time and also saves them time spent on learning to use new methods for dictation.

• Automatic upload of dictation: Another means through which outsourced medical transcription service providers offer resourceful solutions is by enabling automatic upload of audio files for transcription. Turnaround time is a critical factor when it comes to patient records. By having a system that checks for audio files automatically at pre-fixed intervals, healthcare facilities can save on time and effort and the process of medical transcription is quickened

• Document delivery modes: healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities would require transcripts delivered to them through various modes like secure Email, fax, in printed form, delivered to specific folders or even delivered to multiple users. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have provided resourceful solutions for such requirements by using technology to ensure flexible, timely and secure modes of document delivery.

• HIPAA/HITECH compliance: Maintaining the confidentiality of patient information is a major concern for healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have resourcefully secured confidential patient information by having HIPAA/ HITECH compliant measures in place to secure people, processes and technology.

• Archives: At any given time the volume of data regarding patients in a healthcare facility would be voluminous. The support staff at healthcare facilities have to keep track of this data as it moves through the various stages. They also need access to patient records for various uses. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have provided a resourceful solution to this problem by creating archives making tracing the information speedier and easier.

• Adoption of EMR/EHR: Adoption of electronic medical records has become mandatory by law. Many healthcare facilities have invested in EMR systems, but find that healthcare professionals prefer the dictation- transcription mode of capturing data convenient. Outsourced medical transcription service provider have resourcefully provided for this by using HL7 messaging to capture information on to the EMR.

Outsourcing medical transcription to the right medical transcription service provider can provide healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals with resourceful solutions to their needs.

TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry provides not only resourceful medical transcription solutions but also 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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