Medical transcription outsourcing: Helps adopt EMR/ EHR and conserve vital resources

The healthcare sector is poised on the verge of major changes in the way patient encounters are created and shared. This situation has added to the already existing pressures on the healthcare sector. The main challenges faced by healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals today is the need for quick adoption of EMR/ EHR with minimum disruption, quality information and easy to use technology combined with optimum utilization of scarce resources towards the core business of providing quality healthcare.

Medical transcription – the process of creating patient medical records from the dictation of healthcare professionals regarding the care encounter has been providing vital support to the healthcare sector on various aspects. Outsourcing medical transcription not only ensures expert support in terms of accurate, timely and secure creation of patient medical records it also ensures substantial cost savings. Moreover owing to the depth of experience in having served the needs of the healthcare sector and their expertise in providing customized solutions for the evolving needs of the healthcare sector, medical transcription services are in a unique position to help in both EMR/ EHR adoption as well as optimum utilization of scarce resources.

Role of medical transcription in adoption of EMR/ EHR

• Editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software: As the accuracy levels of transcripts created by speech recognition software do not meet the acceptable levels, medical transcription companies have started providing editing and proofreading services for healthcare professionals to ensure that the information in patient medical records meets quality standards.

• Structured dictation and transcription: Supporting the intuitively preferred method of dictation –to- transcription medical transcription companies have started providing additional services like structured dictation and structured transcription, which helps standardize the format of the reports created making it easy for data elements to be fed into the relevant fields in the EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface.

• Discrete reportable transcription: Is a method of documentation that supports dictation and the creation of patient medical records along with the narrative using the services of an expert medical transcription company. 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.

Role of medical transcription in conserving resources

• Conversion of fixed cost of medical transcription to variable costs: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures not only absolute savings of above 40% on the cost of medical transcription but also ensures that the fixed cost of medical transcription is converted to variable costs depending on the usage of services.

• Savings on resources like real estate, utilities and managerial staff etc: Outsourcing medical transcription additionally helps save on resources like real estate, utilities and other resources used for medical transcription, making these resources available for the core business.

• Providing technology for medical transcription: Outsourcing medical transcription also provides healthcare professionals and the healthcare facility additional access to technology, which not only provides advanced features but also easy to use.

It can be concluded that outsourcing medical transcription aids in both the vital aspects that have been the focus of the healthcare sector – adoption of EMR/ EHR and optimum utilization of resources.

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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