Documenting the care process has always been vital for healthcare services both in terms of the actual care process and for other purposes like administrative, receivables management and risk management. Healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals have many options for documenting the care process; medical transcription has been one of the most convenient methods. Outsourced medical transcription services also help healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals curb on cost of transcription to a large extent.
Apart from ensuring accurate, timely, secure and cost effective services using the right combination of a well-trained team, technology and processes, another major advantage of outsourcing medical transcription is that it acts, as a one-stop-shop for all transcription needs, including:
Transcription for all specialties and varying volumes: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that expert services are available for all the specialties without compromising on the accuracy or turnaround time. By outsourcing medical transcription, healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities basically gain access to the vast resource of specialty trained medical transcriptionists, ensuring timely transcription for the varying volume needs of the healthcare facility without compromising on quality.
Weekend and holiday transcription: Outsourcing medical transcription also ensures that the medical transcription company covers the transcription needs for weekends and holidays. By providing for transcription services during special occasions like holidays and weekends, medical transcription companies help healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals save on cost of overtime etc. Moreover by converting the fixed cost of transcription into variable costs, medical transcription companies help healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals save on cost during slack times.
Structured dictation and transcription: With the fast approaching deadline for adoption of EMR/ EHR it has become imperative to find methods of adopting this new technology. Medical transcription companies offer options like structured dictation and structured transcription that help in ensuring that patient medical records are created in a certain way for easy entry into the EMR/ EHR.
Discrete reportable transcription: Discrete reportable transcription can be defined as a unique approach to adoption of EMR/ EHR, which continues to use the traditional method of transcription to create transcripts while instantly populating the EMR/ EHR with discrete data elements. Under this method once the healthcare professional has finished dictating his/her notes, transcripts are created through the usual transcription process using expert medical transcriptionists who ensure accuracy and speed. After transcription, the transcription software automatically tags the discrete data within the document, such as lab values and medications into the appropriate fields in the EMR/ EHR, using XML coding.
HL7 interface: HL7 focuses on the interface necessities of the whole healthcare organization. HL7 functions as a standard to ensure that critical healthcare information is made available to various sources without the meaning getting lost.
Medical transcription companies provide the resources and tools to accept HL7 based ADT (Abstract Data Types)/ order transmissions via TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)/IP (Internet Protocol), HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Server) and /or VPN (Virtual Private Network). This ensures adoption of EMR/ EHR without major changes in the work life of healthcare professionals.
It can be concluded that partnering with a professional and technologically savvy medical transcription company ensures that all the transcription needs of the healthcare facility are met with by one single entity.
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.
Among the software and tools offered by TransDyne for transcription, the smart delivery system has a large role to play in easing the path to EMR/EHR adoption The Smart Delivery system, which has features like User defined folder paths to enable easy imports to EMR systems is the suggested mode of document delivery where pre-defined file saving would help import documents to EMR systems. Apart from this TransDyne also offers discounted rates for those healthcare facilities that provide demographic data entered in the EMR rather than through other modes.
Along with medical transcription services involving multiple level quality checks to ensure accuracy, the use of the right technology for ease of use, turnaround time and security, at reasonable rates, TransDyne also provides discrete reportable transcription for adoption of EMR/ EHR.
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