Medical transcription: Psychiatry

Psychiatry is a medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatric assessment typically starts with a mental status examination and the compilation of a case history. Psychological tests and physical examination may be conducted and on occasion may require the use of neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques Psychiatric treatment applies a variety of modalities, including medication, psychotherapy and a wide range of other techniques such a transcranial magnetic stimulation. Treatment may be as inpatient or outpatient, according to severity of function impairment /the disorder in question.

Psychiatry is a vast field offering a vast array of treatments and therapies, using many techniques, therapies and medication. Psychiatry also involves research conducted on an interdisciplinary basis, sourcing an array of sub-specialties and theoretical approaches. Medical transcription services for healthcare facilities providing psychiatry services needs to be specialized to be efficient and effective.

Realizing that medical transcription for Psychiatry needs to be specialized, TransDyne has developed a team of medical transcriptionists who are handpicked based on their aptitude. This team is then given specialty training to make them experts in psychiatry medical transcription.

How does specialized training in psychiatry medical transcription affect accuracy?

The accuracy level of the final transcripts depends on the knowledge of the medical transcriptionists regarding the specialty and their familiarity with the techniques, therapies and the medication used for psychiatry. Accuracy levels can be maintained at high levels by training the medical transcriptionists on the “language” of psychiatry. TransDyne also takes care to keep their specialty team updated on the latest developments in the field of psychiatry to make sure that their team is familiar with the latest developments in the field.

How does specialized training in psychiatry medical transcription affect turnaround time?

Specialized training in psychiatry not only ensures accuracy, but also enables the medical transcriptionist to meet turnaround time commitments. They require less time to research and are familiar with formats required for various reports in this specialty thus reducing turnaround time.

How does specialized training in psychiatry medical transcription affect pricing?

By providing specialty training in psychiatry to their medical transcriptionists, TransDyne strives to maintain not only accuracy levels and turnaround time, but also increase the productivity of the medical transcriptionists. This in turn reduces the need for multilevel quality checks; all these factors help bring down the cost per line of transcription.

Psychiatry medical transcription from TransDyne not only has the benefits of accuracy above 99%, turnaround time of 24 hours and reasonable prices, it has other benefits like:

• Security: One of the main concerns that healthcare facilities have is regarding the security of data. During the medical transcription process, data is transmitted back & forth; the protection of data during this process is vital. TransDyne ensures security of data by taking on a three pronged approach, which involves security measures with regard to technology, people and processes. This ensures the confidentiality of data is protected at all stages.

• Flexible modes of dictation: Realizing that time is a precious commodity for healthcare professionals, TransDyne has made it possible for them to retain familiar modes of dictation enabling to manage their time for maximum productivity. 

• Benefits of advanced technology: TransDyne offers healthcare facilities the benefit of advanced technological features like automatic uploads of dictation; automatic downloads of finished transcripts, remote printing & faxing, power archiving facilities and HL7 integration etc at no extra costs.

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