Transcription services for healthcare: Why is it required?

The process of healthcare is the outcome of several inputs including the education, experience and proficiency of healthcare professionals, the optimum apparatus, the correct formulations, the optimum procedures and therapies. The shared string that ties all these together to consists of the foundation of successful patient care is information. Visualize a situation where the healthcare professional, does not have access to the correct details! That is why it is conceded that creation of patient records is crucial.

Transcription offers the critical connection to the health management practice chain by recording the patient-healthcare professional encounter. Voice transcription is the undertaking of transforming the audio records of the patient-physician encounter into text format. The process of voice transcription can be made more competent and cost-effective by sub contracting the transcription undertaking to a professional vendor.

Medical transcription performs an critical function in the process of healthcare by making patient reports that serve the below given purposes:

Reliability in care: Patient transcripts deliver reliability in care by capturing all the data exhaustively

Foundation for succeeding visits: Patient records act as a point of framework for succeeding visits of the patient, and assist curb replication of inputs of the support staff

Makes certain of patient safety: Patient transcripts make certain patient safety by providing information on:

• Allergies
• Dosage
• Test results. 

Receivables management functions: The information captured in the patient records makes the foundation for receivables management

Medico-litigation functions: The information recorded in the patient transcript also serves as evidence in case of litigation

It can be seen that making of patient records is very important to the undertaking of medical care. Outsourcing voice transcription to the correct company makes sure that the formation of patient records occurs in a quick, exact, secure and economical manner.

The capabilities of the medical transcription vendor is required to be evaluated on the below given standards:

Quality: This signifies the percentage of accuracy of the completed records vis-à-vis what was recorded. A minimum of 99% and above would be ideal. Vigilance should be taken to choose a medical transcription vendor who has quality verification methods in place to ensure accuracy

Delivery time: Turnaround time denotes to the time taken to revert the transcribed document to the healthcare facility. A turnaround time promises of not more than 24 hours for regular records and 4-12 hours for STAT transcripts given by the medical transcription vendor would be regarded as acceptable

Data security: The company being outsourced to should be HIPAA and HITECH compliant. The transcription vendor has to have adequate data security measures to ensure that the private information sent to and fro is safe and secure.

Pricing: Diminished expenses are one of the major advantages that a health facility hopes to have, from the outsourcing option. Pricing should be equitable and cost-effective for the services rendered. Pricing procedure used by the voice transcription vendor should also be clear and simple so that both parties can assess the same at any stage of the undertaking

Software and tools: The information technology employed by the medical transcription company should not only be confidential but should also be simple to use, without having to require thorough teaching.

TransDyne ensures excellent medical transcription at economical prices, carried out by experienced and trained medical transcriptionists with a very prompt delivery time executed through private HIPAA and HITECH compliant channels, with very high levels of correctness and all this with software and tools that is advanced but simple to use!                  

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