Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Medical transcription outsourcing: Services that are convenient, comprehensive and minimize risks

With the rapidly approaching deadlines for the adoption of EMR/ EHR, healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities are constantly looking for ways and means of complying with the mandate with minimum disruption to their work flow. Healthcare professionals intuitively show an inclination towards the dictation- transcription method of documenting the care process, as it is convenient, minimizes risks and is comprehensive by helping retain the narrative portion of the patient encounter.

Convenient, comprehensive and risk-free services

Convenient services


Conforming to the users’ needs:  The services of medical transcription company naturally conform to the hectic working atmosphere of healthcare facilities. Apart from meeting the needs of the primary stakeholders in the healthcare; that is the patients and healthcare professionals, outsourced medical transcription services provide convenient services for others like the support staff of the healthcare facility, administration, IT etc. Some of the convenient features of medical transcription services include:

  • Familiar and flexible modes of dictation
  • Transcription with maximum accuracy
  • Eliminating overheads for medical transcription
  • Transcription within turnaround time specified to help with the care process and to start billing process on time
  • Lowering the cost of transcription
  • Using easy to use technology for transcription.

Providing means for adoption of EMR/ EHR:  Keeping in mind the approaching deadline for adoption of EMR/ EHR and the constraints on the time of healthcare professionals, which hinder the entry of information into the system by healthcare professionals themselves, medical transcription companies are providing numerous options for adoption of EMR/ EHR. These include:


  • HL7 interface
  • Discrete reportable transcription
  • Structured dictation
  • Structured transcription.

Comprehensive services: Comprehensive services provided by medical transcription companies include:


  • Accurate transcription for all specialties, including the narrative
  • Meeting varying transcription volumes
  • Holiday and weekend transcription
  • Editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software
  • Customizing report templates/ formats according to specification.
Risk Free services: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the risk faced by healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities as regards HIPAA and HITECH during the medical transcription process are minimized. The patient medical records created by medical transcription companies also effectively help in risk management aspects.

It can be concluded that outsourcing medical transcription provides healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities with convenient, comprehensive and risk free transcription solutions.

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. 

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

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