Medical transcription outsourcing: A balanced approach to time management

The healthcare sector is constantly besieged with numerous demands on their limited resources making time management a big issue. Medical transcription – the process of creating patient medical records from the dictation of healthcare professionals detailing the patient encounter, is one of the factors that has a role to play in effective time management. Timely medical transcription is essential for provision of quality care, reimbursements and risk management. Though medical transcription is vital for smooth running of healthcare facilities it is also a time consuming process to organize effectively.

Outsourcing medical transcription has been found to be an effective solution for ensuring better time management – both in terms of managing transcription and the managing the time of the healthcare professionals and other staff.

Given below are some of the areas in which outsourcing medical transcription helps take on a balanced approach towards time management:

Resource management for medical transcription: To produce accurate and timely patient medical records medical transcription requires the right team, the right processes and the right technology. Mobilizing these resources requires dedicated time and focus to produce the desired results. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures better time management in this regards as the onus of developing these resources is on the medical transcription company. This includes:

• Developing the right team: One of the most important resources required for quality transcription is a team of medical transcriptionists. The process of sourcing, recruiting and training medical transcriptionists can be time consuming. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the medical transcription company would have a constant recruiting and training process in place to ensure the availability of skilled medical transcriptionists taking away this burden from the healthcare facility and ensuring better time management

• Developing the right process: To meet quality standards and maintain HIPAA and HITECH compliance it is important to develop and implement the right process. Medical transcription companies have the expertise and experience in developing the right process and Quality Guidelines to ensure quality. They would also have the right resources in place to ensure HIPAA and HITECH compliance.

• Software and tools: Medical transcription requires the right technology right from the beginning of the process – collection of information to the end of the process – delivery of transcripts to ensure smooth operations. Medical transcription companies have developed the right technology to provide maximum benefits while still being easy to use. Enabling the healthcare professionals to retain the dictation mode of choice ensures that they can manage their time better. Medical transcription companies enable the transcripts to be delivered through the specified mode, which enables the support staff to manage their time better. Medical transcription service providers also enable adoption of EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface further aiding in better time management.

Speeding up the transcription process: Another important aspect that outsourced medical transcription services help in better time management is speeding up the entire transcription process. Outsourced medical transcription service providers ensure speedy transcription even in the face of varying volumes, holiday & weekend transcription needs etc. ensuring better time management.

Partnering with the right medical transcription service provider can aid healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals in better time management.

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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