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Medical transcription is an important contributor to the smooth running of a healthcare facility. It is important for medical transcription services to be accurate, timely, reasonably priced and transmitted through secure channels. Outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider can make this possible.

However while outsourcing such a vital function as medical transcription, care needs to be taken to prepare the groundwork for outsourcing:

· Preparing the groundwork for outsourcing: Outsourcing a vital part of the healthcare process to a service provider is essentially like taking on a long-term business partner. Thereby it is important that the decision to outsource is based on inputs from every department affected by the decision.

What are the factors to be considered before outsourcing medical transcription?

a) Consulting staff: The services of the medical transcription service provider are going to be used by not only healthcare professionals, but also support staff, billing department and Information technology department. It is important to get inputs from all the people who are directly or indirectly affected by medical transcription so that the right service provider is selected.

b) Drawing up objective criteria for evaluation: It is important to have a clear objective for the outsourcing plan; this enables the healthcare facility to evaluate the medical transcription service provider thoroughly. The criteria for outsourcing could be varied, it could be cutting costs, streamlining transcription flow, reducing turnaround time or improving quality. Sometimes it could be a combination of one or more of the objectives.

c) Follow up references: Instead of taking the promises/claims made by the service provider it is important to check the references provided by the medical transcription service provider to ensure that they can deliver the promises made by them.

d) Analyze quoted price thoroughly: The billing methods used in medical transcription are varied and are subject to manipulation. The price quoted by the medical transcription service provider cannot be taken at face value, it is important to know the components of cost to be able to compare the prices quoted by different providers in an equitable manner.

e) Focus on factors beyond price: Medical transcription plays a long-term role by documenting the patient data. This information could be called upon in the future for various purposes, including litigation. It is important to weigh factors like the capability of the medical transcription service provider in providing similar services, quality of reports, the skill set of medical transcriptionists, adoption to EMR and archiving capabilities in addition to the cost factor.

f) Consider future requirements: It is important to choose a service provider who has the capability to grow along with the future requirements of the healthcare facility. Factors like increasing volumes, adding on new specialties will affect the level of service required. The service provider needs to be evaluated on the basis of their ability to service future requirements

g) Consider technological compatibility: Technology has changed the way medical transcription works. Information Technology (IT) has made the process simpler, quicker and more secure. It is important to evaluate the service provider on the basis of technological capabilities and whether further investment is required on the healthcare facility’s behalf before availing the services.

h) Avail free trial: It is important to test the services of the medical transcription service provider before actually signing the agreement.

i) Evaluate the contract: The contract is the document that specifies the service level expected. It is important to study the contract carefully for clauses that are binding and consider their impact before signing. Points like use of subcontractors, provisions for HIPAA and HITECH compliance need to be included in the contract document.

TransDyne is a leading provider of outsourced medical transcription services that has anticipated the needs of healthcare facilities and designed their services accordingly. TransDyne offers medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert 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.

To benefit from outsourced medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

Health Information Technology for Economy and Clinical Health (HITECH) act providing for privacy and security of patient health information was enacted on 17th February 2009, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (ARRA). The HITECH act has become effective on 17th February 2010.

HITECH has improved and expanded on the concerns and issues addressed by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). HITECH has added new requirements concerning privacy and security for health information that materially and directly affects many entities, businesses, and individuals in ways more diverse than HIPAA

How does HITECH affect medical transcription service providers?
HITECH has added as ‘Business Associates’, organizations that transmit protected Health Information and require access on a regular basis to such information.

Medical transcription is the process of converting audio records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter into text format. The process of medical transcription is made efficient and cost effective when outsourced to a professional medical transcription service provider. Medical transcription service providers come under the purview of HITECH as business associates, as they have access to patient health information and are involved in the process of transmitting this data back and forth during the process of transcription.

What are the steps to be taken by a medical transcription service provider to ensure compliancy with the HITECH act?
To be compliant with the HITECH act, the medical transcription service provider needs to implement the following:

· Identify the compliance requirements specific to their organization
· Carry out a risk analysis that includes the total flow of Patient Health Information (PHI) during the process of transcription. This needs to include the beginning of the process, all the steps in between up to the conclusion of the process, namely:

a) Collection of dictation
b) Transmission of audio files
c) Distribution of audio files for transcription
d) Shared access for quality checks
e) Transmission of transcripts back to the healthcare professionals
f) Archiving

· Identify the high-risk areas and look at the current risk containment measures. Revise the measures to ensure that they are in tandem with current requirements and latest technology, making sure there are no loopholes to allow for breaches

· Ensure that employees and any third parties having access to PHI are fully trained on the privacy and security requirements. Make them aware of their role in protecting PHI

· Review existing relationships between covered entities and develop a continuing compliance strategy

· Develop a strategy to minimize breaches, an early detection plan for identifying breaches and an action plan for quick responses to contain breaches, if any

While outsourcing medical transcription, it has become important for healthcare facilities to ensure that the service provider is fully aware of the requirement to protect the PHI under the HITECH act and have measures in place to ensure compliance.

TransDyne a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has always understood the importance of securing and protecting confidential patient health information during the process of medical transcription. Measures have been taken to ensure that PHI is protected at all levels. The measures taken by TransDyne to be HIPAA and HITECH compliant include:

Securing people and processes: People and processes are secured by implementing the following:

1. No sub-contractors: Work outsourced to TransDyne is executed in-house and no subcontractors are used.
2. Educating the team: The transcription team, i.e. medical transcriptionists, proof readers, language editors and the quality assurance team have been educated on the importance of protecting and securing PHI
3. Inbuilt security routines: All applications and processes have inbuilt security measures like password changes, access audits and related exercises.
4. Joint access: Most confidential databases can only be accessed by a combination of passwords of a minimum of two individuals.
5. Restricted Internet and Email access: Unlimited access to Internet can lead to security breaches. Access is limited to a few limited sites.
6. Legal Declarations: Declarations are signed by employees undertaking to maintain the security of data.
7. Security audits: Frequent audits are carried out to ensure that all procedures are followed and are effective
8. Disabling ports for removable media: Ports for using removable media have been disabled to eliminate misuse of PHI

Securing Infrastructure: Infrastructure is secured by the following means:

1. Company owned and managed facilities
2. Manned security
3. Video surveillance

Securing Technology: Technology has been secured by use of security features like

1. All medical transcription related software applications are built in-house.
2. Database based systems.
3. 128-bit data encryption
4. Multi-tiered application architecture
5. Design level security safeguards
6. Firewall protected networks
7. Sterilized e-mail servers
8. Denial of access procedures and
9. Multi-modal alerts

To know more about secure medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

Hematology is a branch of internal medicine, physiology, pathology, clinical laboratory work and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood forming organs and blood diseases. Hematology includes the study of etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention of blood diseases. Physicians specialized in hematology are known as hematologists. Their routine work includes the care and treatment of patients with hematology diseases, although some may work at the hematology laboratory viewing blood films and bone marrow under the slides.

Hematologists and hematopathologists generally work in conjunction to formulate a diagnosis and deliver the most appropriate therapy if needed. Hematology is a distinct subspecialty of internal medicine, separate from but overlapping with the subspecialty of medical oncology.

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

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

How does specialty training in Hematology medical transcription affect turnaround time?
Specialty training in Hematology medical transcription enables the medical transcriptionists to produce high quality transcripts within the turnaround time guaranteed. Due to the familiarity with the language of Hematology, 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 Hematology medical transcription affect pricing?
Specialty training in Hematology 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.

Hematology 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 while outsourcing,  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.

To know more about superb Hematology medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

Medical transcription is the process of converting the audio records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter into a text format. Medical transcription plays an important role in providing support to the healthcare process.

How does outsourcing medical transcription help improve quality of healthcare?

· By reducing costs: Outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription service provider helps the healthcare facility to restrict cost of transcription. Usually the medical transcription service provider would be quoting a rate that is based on a particular criteria,  like a rate per line of transcription. This limits the cost to just cost per line of transcription. Moreover the extra costs incurred for varying volumes of transcription, holiday and weekend transcriptions would be curbed. The medical transcription service provider could provide a complete solution for the complete medical transcription needs of the healthcare facility.

· By providing timely and accurate information: Timely and accurate information is essential for the healthcare professional to make informed decisions. By providing medical transcription services that are accurate and timely, the service provider would be aiding the healthcare professional in the healthcare process. The healthcare professional can make informed decisions rather than depend on memory or guesswork. A well-transcribed report is especially useful, when it involves a long-term treatment plan or when the patient is not in a position to provide pertinent information or when further referrals/tests are required.

· By conserving healthcare facility resources: By outsourcing medical transcription the healthcare facility can conserve many of its precious resources like capital outlay, management staff, real estate, utilities, Information technology, advertising budgets and also time of the healthcare professionals.

· By allowing healthcare professionals to optimize their limited time: Outsourced medical transcription services would allow the healthcare professional to utilize their time optimally. Many medical transcription service providers allow healthcare professionals to retain familiar modes of dictation this helps them save time. Moreover technology features like automatic uploads, downloads, powerful archiving, remote printing and faxing options help the healthcare professionals conserve their time, which would have otherwise been utilized for these functions.

· By improving the receivables cycle: Medical transcription is the first step in the process of reimbursement, by providing accurate and timely information. When medical transcription is outsourced to a professional medical transcription service provider, information is available in a timely and accurate manner, thus quickening the receivables cycle.

· By providing protection against litigation: Outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription service provider ensures that the information from the patient-healthcare professional encounter is captured accurately, and the confidentiality of this data is protected during the process. This ensures that there is no breach of security ensuring zero legal hassles. The transcripts also provide valuable backup for the treatment plan administered including dosages, procedures etc, forming a valuable part of the evidence against malpractice.

Medical transcription is a valuable service that aids the process of healthcare. Outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider can help improve the efficiency, decrease cost of transcription and quickens the process of reimbursement.

TransDyne is a professionally managed medical transcription service provider that has been in the business of providing outsourced medical transcription services for over a decade.

TransDyne offers medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert 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.

To benefit from outsourced medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

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 studies and  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.

To know more about superb oncology medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

When it comes to medical transcription needs of a healthcare facility, there are various options available to them. They could choose to go in for an in-house transcription team or engage Independent contractors, or engage the services of a medical transcription service provider. Sometimes healthcare facilities choose to have a combination of all three.

However outsourcing medical transcription needs on a turnkey basis to a professional medical transcription service provider has a lot of advantages. Once the expertise of the medical transcription service provider has been evaluated in terms of accuracy, turnaround time, security, technology and the flexibility of services, there are many advantages to outsourcing medical transcription the right way.

Given below are some of the advantages of outsourcing medical transcription:

1. Saving time: By outsourcing medical transcription, the administrative staff of the healthcare facility as well the healthcare professionals can organize their limited time better to focus on the core business; that of providing quality care.

2. Saving resources: Outsourcing medical transcription frees up resources like Information technology, real estate, working capital, management personnel etc. These resources can then be utilized more optimally.

3. Savings on infrastructure: Having medical transcription in-house would require infrastructure like real estate, computers, utilities etc, which would have to be dedicated to medical transcription. By outsourcing medical transcription, investment on this infrastructure could be saved.

4. Saving on efforts: A lot efforts are needed from people at every level, when medical transcription is executed in-house or through the use of independent contractors. Activities like recruitment, training requires a lot of effort. Outsourcing medical transcription makes sure that these efforts are channeled more productively.

5. Less strain on internal resources: Due to increasing costs, decreasing percentage of reimbursements, and limited budgets, it has become increasingly challenging to manage internal resources. Outsourcing medical transcription lessens the strain on internal resources.

6. Gaining from the expertise of the provider: Outsourcing medical transcription has the advantage of the healthcare facility gaining from the expertise of the medical transcription service provider. The experience and expertise of the medical transcription service provider add to the other benefits of outsourcing.

7. High quality of service: As more and more resources of the healthcare facility are freed, the focus on providing quality services would improve, thereby enhancing the quality of service.

8. Flexibility of choice: One of the major advantages of outsourcing medical transcription is the flexibility of services provided. The onus of having to organize medical transcription services for varying influx of patients, holiday transcription and weekend transcription needs is on the service provider.

9. Increase shareholder value: With the minimization of costs, profits are maximized thus increasing shareholder value.

10. Streamlined and improved operations: With one of the vital functions in the healthcare process, being taken care of, the administration of the healthcare facility is free to focus on other areas. This helps streamline and improve operations.

11. Being competitive: The ability to cut costs without affecting the quality and turnaround time of medical reports, gives a competitive edge to the healthcare facility.

12. Improvement and expansion of services: With huge cost saving benefits and improvement in efficiency, by outsourcing medical transcription, the healthcare facility, improvement and expansion plans become a reality.

13. Improvement in cash flow: Medical transcription is the first stage of the receivables cycle. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the turnaround time is reduced, thus quickening the receivables cycle. This in turn improves the cash flow.

Apart from all the above strategic advantages, outsourcing medical transcription needs to a professional medical transcription service provider like TransDyne has benefits like quality medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert 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!

To know more about the advantages of outourcing medical transcription to TransDyne, click here.

It is a constantly changing world, needs are also constantly changing. It is the onus of the service providers to be flexible to meet the changing requirements of their target customers. Medical transcription is a service that has been allied with the healthcare sector by converting the audio records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter into text format. To fulfill the varying needs of the healthcare sector it is important that medical transcription services be flexible.

What are the factors that could affect medical transcription?

· Varying influx of patients: The influx of patients is not something that can be predicted. It is important for medical transcription service providers to be prepared for varying volumes of transcription depending on the inflow of patients.

· Turnaround time requirements: Different specialties have different turnaround time requirements. Sometimes the healthcare professional may require the report to be transcribed instantly and sometimes a time lag does not affect the process of healthcare. A medical transcription service provider has to be in a position to meet the varying turnaround time requirements

· New specialties being added to existing healthcare facilities: A medical transcription service provider may be used to transcribing only for certain specialties. When new specialties are added the medical transcription service provider has to develop competency in transcribing for the new specialty as well as keeping up with the current demands.

· Expansion plans: Healthcare facilities may have plans to expand geographically as well as in other ways. This could mean that the medical transcription service provider needs to adjust to various new factors like new healthcare professionals, new specialties, new formats, different accents, different time zones, different turnaround time expectations and even different systems

· Different formats required by different specialists: Medical transcription service providers have to keep up with the demands of different formats of reports required by different specialists.

· New developments in the field of healthcare: Healthcare is a field that has constant developments. This could be in the form of discovering new ailments, new therapies and invention of new drugs and procedures. A competent medical transcription service provider has to constantly update its’ team of medical transcriptionists to enable them to provide expert medical transcription services.

· Adoption of EMR: Healthcare facilities may decide to implement an EMR/EHR system. This would require a medical transcription service provider to enable entry of information into the EMR/EHR via HL7 interface.

· Adoption of voice recognition software: Sometimes the medical transcription service provider has to adopt the role of proofreader/editor when healthcare facilities have adopted voice recognition software for their medical transcription needs.

Being associated with healthcare, medical transcription services have to be flexible to meet the varying needs.

- TransDyne, a leading provider of outsourced medical transcription services, believes in being flexible to meet the varying needs of healthcare facilities.

- TransDyne has a team of expert medical transcriptionists who have trained to be domain experts in various specialties; this ensures that medical transcription needs for new specialties added are handled expertly.

- TransDyne has the technology in place to handle HL7 interface for EMR/EHR adoption.

- TransDyne can handle varying turnaround time requirements as well any specific formats required by healthcare professionals.

Outsourcing to a company like TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry provides numerous benefits like medical transcription services with accuracy of above 99%, a guaranteed turnaround time of 24 hours with an option of 4-12 hours for STAT reports, technology that is advanced but easy to use and transcription through secure channels to ensure HIPAA and HITECH compliance.

To know more about flexible medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

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  benefits like  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.

To know more about superb psychiatry medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.

Outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider has many advantages. The more obvious ones being accurate, timely, economical and secure creation of records. Apart from the obvious, outsourcing medical transcription has many strategic advantages, one of them being the service provider tailoring their services according to what the healthcare facility may require.

It is a well-known fact that the healthcare field is constantly evolving, new things are being discovered on a daily basis, both in terms of new ailments as well as new remedies in the form of medication, procedures, therapies and surgery methods. It is important that the person/s documenting the patient records be well versed with the latest developments. Moreover the norms for documentation as well as technological changes in the medical transcription field also keep evolving. All these need to be incorporated without incurring additional costs.

How does outsourcing medical transcription help healthcare facilities cope up with the changing environment?
Outsourcing medical transcription can help healthcare facilities cope up with the changing environment by anticipating their needs and tailoring their services accordingly.

Solutions are provided for changing needs of the healthcare facilities by the following methods:

· Training methods: Training methods adopted by the medical transcription service provider have impact on the following areas:

a) Coping with varying volumes: By constantly recruiting and maintaining a large team of medical transcriptionists, the medical transcription service provider would be able to maintain accuracy levels and meet turnaround time commitments even with huge influx of patients

b) Dealing with specialties: A medical transcription service provider that creates specialist medical transcriptionists by training them in one or two specialties enables them to cope varying needs of the healthcare facilities, when new specialties are added. Moreover updating the medical transcriptionists on the latest developments in the particular specialty makes them more efficient. The medical transcriptionists are well versant with the terminology used and with the formats required enabling them to meet the highest standards of accuracy within optimum turnaround time

· Adopting technology: Technology adopted by the medical transcription service provider has an  impact on the following areas:

a) Flexible uploads and downloads: Medical transcription uses technology for dictation, uploading of audio files and downloading of finished transcripts. The technology used by the medical transcription service provider needs to be advanced to cope with all these needs and at the time need to be easy to use.

b) Powerful archiving: Healthcare facilities have a huge number of healthcare professionals dictating sizable volumes of dictation on a daily basis. The healthcare facility would also be receiving huge volume of transcribed files on a daily basis. Tracing these files, dictated as well as transcribed at any given point of time can be very difficult. Anticipating this the service provider needs to use a system which has powerful archival features to enable all these functions.

c) Security: Security of data during transmission is on of the main concerns of healthcare facilities. Technology used by the service provider needs to provide for the security of data at all levels.

d) Integration with EMR: Adoption of EMR needs that the service provider has HL7 interface to enable transmission of data into the EMR system without additional investment.

TransDyne is a professional medical transcription service provider that has always anticipated the needs of healthcare facilities and also incorporated the latest developments in the field of healthcare, while offering outsourced medical transcription solutions to healthcare facilities.

TransDyne offers medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert medical transcriptionists with a very quick turnaround time executed through secure HIPAA & HITECH compliant channels, with very high levels of accuracy and all this with technology that is advanced but easy to use.

To know more about outsourced medical transcription solutions by TransDyne, click here.

Podiatry is a branch of healthcare devoted to the study, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the foot, ankle and lower leg. A podiatrist is a doctor of Podiatric medicine,  also known as podiatric physician or surgeon, qualified by his/her education and training to diagnose and treat conditions affecting the foot, ankle and related structures of the leg. Podiatrists are uniquely qualified among medical professionals to treat the foot and ankle based on their education, training and experience.

Medical transcription is a service allied with the field of healthcare by creating accurate, timely and reasonably priced records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter. To provide medical transcription based on all the parameters, medical transcriptionists needs to be well versed in the language of medicine, along with listening skills, keyboarding skills and research abilities.

Having acknowledged that catering to special needs requires a higher level of expertise, TransDyne has geared their training practices to meet these needs. TransDyne has formed special teams of medical transcriptionists who are trained in specific specialties, to make them domain experts in that specialty. TransDyne has a team of medical transcriptionists who have been trained in podiatry to enable them to provide podiatry medical transcription services.

How does specialty training in podiatry medical transcription affect accuracy?
Specialist training in podiatry ensures that the medical transcriptionist is well versed in the terminology and the procedures used in podiatry, thus ensuring that the complex terminology is easily understood by the medical transcriptionists, ensuring that the highest levels of accuracy are maintained from the very beginning.

How does specialty training in podiatry medical transcription affect turnaround time?
Specialist training in podiatry medical transcription enables medical transcriptionists to not only achieve high levels of accuracy but also enables them to meet the turnaround time committed. Moreover due to the high level of accuracy, the need for more number of quality checks are reduced, thus reducing turnaround time.

How does specialty training in podiatry medical transcription affect pricing?
The productivity of the medical transcriptionist are high, the accuracy levels are high and the need for quality checks are lowered, thus reducing the cost per line of transcription. The healthcare facility  benefits in terms of cost saving due to the expertise of the medical transcriptionists.

Apart from meeting the commitments of higher levels of accuracy and turnaround time, at lower prices, Podiatry medical transcription by TransDyne has the following benefits:

Data Security: TransDyne ensures Data security by incorporating security measures like 128-bit data encryption, multi-tiered application architecture, design level security, safeguards, firewall protected networks, sterilized e-mail servers, denial of access procedure and multi modal alerts.

TransDyne further ensures data security by ensuring that data doesn’t leave its premises physically. To ensure secure medical transcription all the transcription is done in TransDyne’s premises and the premises are secured through appropriate security measures. TransDyne meets and exceeds all the HIPAA and HITECH regulations.

Technology: TransDyne believes that the technology used for medical transcription like uploading dictation and downloading finished transcripts should be advanced to ensure reliability, but very easy to use requiring very less or no training. TransDyne also has a system with powerful archival features enabling the healthcare professional to easily trace old records. TransDyne also facilitates HL7 interface for interacting with other systems.

To benefit from Podiatry medical transcription services by TransDyne, click here.