Medical transcription: Specialty services for Oncology

Oncology: “Onco” derived from an ancient Greek word meaning bulk, mass or tumor and suffix  -logy meaning study of; is a branch of medicine that deals with tumors (Cancer). A medical professional who practices oncology is an Oncologist.

Oncology is concerned with:

• The diagnosis of any cancer
• Therapy, like surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other modalities.
• Follow-up of cancer patients after successful treatments
• Palliative care of patients with terminal malignancies.
• Screening efforts as a means of early detection.

Oncology medical transcription involves the transcription of audio records dictated by oncologists’ and other related healthcare professionals’ encounter with patients. Knowing that it takes a specialist to take care specialist medical transcription needs, TransDyne has trained a team of medical transcriptionists in the language of oncology.  This has enabled the medical transcriptionists to become domain specialists.

How does specialty training in oncology medical transcription affect accuracy levels?

Specialty training in oncology medical transcription helps the medical transcriptionists produce quality work from the very beginning.  The medical transcriptionists are familiar with the terminology, therapies, procedures and drugs related to oncology. Due to the specialty training in oncology medical transcription the medical transcriptionists are able to achieve accuracy of above 99% maintaining the integrity of information captured.

How does specialty training in oncology medical transcription affect turnaround time?

Specialty training in oncology medical transcription enables the medical transcriptionists to produce high quality transcripts within the turnaround time guaranteed. Due to the familiarity with the language of oncology, the medical transcriptionist need not spend much time researching difficult terms in the Internet. Due to the higher levels of accuracy the number of quality checks required are less thus reducing turnaround time.

How does specialty training in oncology medical transcription affect pricing?

Specialty training in oncology medical transcription increases the productivity of the medical transcriptionists and decreases the time required for frequent quality checks thus bringing down the cost per line of transcription. The healthcare facility benefits from the economies of scale.

Oncology 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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