Medical transcription plays an important role in the healthcare process by transforming dictated audio files into patient records that provide complete healthcare documentation. Patient records are an amazing resource for healthcare professionals to draw information from, for various purposes. Patient records are basically the chronicle of events of the patient's medical history, including the demographics, the initial complaint, examination, the diagnosis, result of tests/procedures, the medication/ treatment prescribed, the progress made by the patient and the record of healthcare instructions given to the patient for continued care.
All these information are skillfully captured by the process of medical transcription accurately, made available within short turnaround times, transmitted through secure channels using different modes of document delivery as desired by the healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities. The medical transcription process is the culmination of the right people, the right processes and the right technology. As medical transcription is not a part of the core business of the healthcare facility, the easy fix to ensure speedy, accurate and secure creation of patient records is to outsource the entire process to an outsourced medical transcription service provider.
Outsourcing medical transcription also helps improve the cash flow of the healthcare facility.
How does outsourcing medical transcription improve the cash flow of the healthcare facility?
Outsourced medical transcription services help improve the cash flow of healthcare facilities in the following ways:
- Bringing down the cost of transcription: One of the main benefits of outsourcing medical transcription is that of bringing down the direct and indirect cost of medical transcription significantly. Outsourcing medical transcription brings down the cost per line of transcription by about 40%. Overheads that would have been incurred due to in-house medical transcription would be redirected to the core business, thus improving productivity and profits.
- Increasing the productivity of healthcare professionals and support staff: Outsourcing medical transcription essentially provides support to healthcare professionals and support staff by providing services with numerous added benefits.
1. Benefits like allowing healthcare professionals to use flexible and familiar modes of dictation enables them to optimize their time to concentrate more on providing care to patients, which results in increased productivity.
2. Software and tools to enable automatic upload of audio files helps improve the productivity of information technology staff.
3. Multiple modes of document delivery improve the efficiency of healthcare professionals performance.
4. Archive facilities help improve the efficiency of support staff.
The increased productivity resulting from outsourcing medical transcription helps save on time, efforts and results in better revenues due to increase and improvement in services
- Providing the basis for reimbursements: Accurate and timely documentation aids in the reimbursement process. Accurate information regarding the diagnostic process is important to justify the treatment and this helps in claiming payments. Creation of patient records on a timely basis ensures that the coding and billing can take place on time and this accelerates the reimbursement process, thus improving cash flow.
- Protecting against litigation: Patient records not only play a valuable role in the treatment and reimbursement process, they are also an important component of risk management. Litigation is a complex and costly process and patient records provide valuable support in this process.
Outsourcing medical transcription to a service provider with a combination of the right team, the right processes and the right technology can provide numerous benefits to healthcare facilities one of the main being improved cash flow.
TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has utilized their extensive background in information technology and their experience in providing medical transcription services to come up with medical transcription solutions that help healthcare facilities save on time, money and effort. 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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