How to choose a Medical Transcription service?

How to choose a Medical Transcription service?

In this blog I want to share some tips for medical transcriptions. For medical transcription, the three most important factors needed to evaluate when choosing a dictation service are turnaround time, accuracy, and security.

What do you mean by Turnaround time?

The standard dictation service offers 24 to 48 hour turnaround. Many also offer STAT service, which provides 1, 2, or 4 hour turnaround.

• How does time of day force the delivery plan? If you submit your dictation at 8 pm for STAT transcription, will it get the immediate attention you need? Or will it be queued up until the following morning?
• How do they backup their guarantee? If they return transcriptions late, do they give you a discount?
• Do different types of notes have different times?

What is the mean of Accuracy?

Inaccurate medical transcriptions are worse than no medical transcriptions at all: serious mistakes can endanger patients’ comfort or put at risk legal agreements. The dictation service you choose should employ transcriptionists with significant expertise in this field, as well as quality assurance (QA) staffers to double check your medical transcripts before they’re released is must.

What is Security?

For web-based announcement, the industry standard for safety is 128-bit SSL security. If the dictation service uses another method of communication, ask what steps they take to make sure it’s secure. Transfer unencrypted files over regular email is not a secure method of transferring your audio files or the resulting medical transcription.

After analyzing all these three steps you can choose your medical transcription services provider.

Here you can find out some valuable information related to Medical Transcription.

Now question arise, what is Medical Transcription?

A person who transcribes medical reports dictated by a physician concerning a patient’s health care.

According to Wikipedia.org – “Medical transcription encompasses the MT, performing document typing and formatting functions according to an established criteria or format, transcribing the spoken word of the patient’s care information into a written, easily readable form. MT requires correct spelling of all terms and words, (occasionally) correcting medical terminology or dictation errors. MTs also edit the transcribed documents, print or return the completed documents in a timely fashion. All transcription reports must comply with medico-legal concerns, policies and procedures, and laws under patient confidentiality.”

Now advantages of Medical Transcription:

• Staff working 24/7, 365 days.
• We can supply any turnaround time requirements.
• Every physician is assigning a team which remains the same.
• 3 levels of quality control.
• 99% accuracy.
• We support Digital recorders, toll free number and computer dictation.
• Secure 256 bit AES encryption and HIPAA compliant.
• Browser based transfer of files. Also available, FTP or e mail systems.
• 24/7 customer service on all our products.
• EMR interface, transcription server interface.
• Full work flow modules available.
• Local representative in most areas.

We understand that in medical transcription services, customization is the key and every physician is different. We provide our medical transcription outsourcing service through our toll free dictation server, digital recorder service and computer dictation service. Medical transcription service supports all file formats and can customize your turnaround time requirements to meet your needs. Whether you are a hospital, large medical clinic or an individual practitioner, our medical transcription service has the flexibility to provide you with the service that you require.

Having highly skilled and experienced Transcriptionsists who are well-informed in all areas of medicine, we can guarantee you with better-quality and completely accurate and of legal quality transcription work. We use our own medical transcription software packages to make the best output. Even though your medical transcription work is sent overseas to our offshore locations in India, we ensure 100% security and confidentiality of your documents. Once we complete your transcription work, we transmit finished reports with the help of secure FTP, fax, secure encrypted e-mail, direct modem and hard copy delivery.