Medical transcription outsourcing: Forming the base for quality healthcare

Healthcare and medical transcription services have had a long-term association, with transcription providing vital documentation support to healthcare in an accurate, timely, secure and cost effective manner. Due to a long term association with the healthcare sector medical transcription has become a specialized service using quality personnel, stringent processes and advanced technology to provide services that help in various aspects of successfully running healthcare facilities like provision of quality healthcare, receivables management and risk management. Since medical transcription is a process that requires concentrated investment in terms of time, capital and other resources to produce optimum results, outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription company has been found to be an effective solution.

In fact outsourcing medical transcription has many benefits including that of forming the base for quality healthcare. Though medical transcription does not directly affect the quality of care provided by the healthcare facility, it helps strengthens the cornerstones of quality healthcare services.

How do outsourced medical transcription services form the base for quality for healthcare services?

The cornerstones that form the basis of quality services are the reputation of the healthcare facility, referrals, quality and timeliness of services. Outsourced medical transcription services provide support for all these aspects:

Reputation: Though medical transcription services do not directly contribute to building the reputation, medical transcription services have an important role to play in the process leading to this and thereby in two main aspects:

1. Provision of quality care by providing accurate, timely, legible, clear and detailed patient medical record which help in the diagnostic and care process
2. Risk management by ensuring that proper documentation is maintained to show the sequence of care, which ensures that the risk of malpractice litigation is minimized
3. By ensuring HIPAA and HITECH compliance during the medical transcription process, service providers help in increasing the confidence of patients in the healthcare facility.

• Easing and increasing the process of referrals: Proper documentation of the care process leads to better communication between healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities, resulting in referrals.

• Helps improve quality of services: Proper information forms the basis for healthcare and medical transcription ensures that the patient medical records are created in a way that minimizes the strain on healthcare professionals, intuitively lending itself to the operations of healthcare facilities, using advanced technology that is easy to use to ensure smoother operations.

• Helps quicken provision of healthcare: Creation of patient medical records using the services of a professional medical transcription company has several benefits that help speed up the care process, with features like:

1. Allowing dictation as a means of information collection – helping increase healthcare professionals’ productivity
2. Flexible modes of dictation
3. Customized modes of document delivery
4. Facilitating faster turnaround time as needed
5. Providing editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software transcription
6. Specialty based transcription ensuring accuracy and speed from the very beginning

It can be seen that quality medical transcription services can help strengthen the base of healthcare by building up the cornerstones of healthcare.

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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