Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Hiring MT - Qualities of a Professional Medical Transcriber

As the need for medical transcription towering to greater heights, the demand for hiring quality medical transcribers with excellent attitude and aptitude is the need of the hour of the medical transcription solution providers.

The medical transcribers should be highly skilled among the various individuals in the talent market. The company which provides health care solutions in the means of medical transcription services should keep a high vigil on the employment of the right medical transcriber at the right time for the right project.

Though it is well known that health care employment is a tedious time consuming process, sourcing and selecting the skilled labor to perform a particular job is highly critical. Employment of the performing individual is the strength of any medical transcription provider.

A company should follow a hiring policy in order to have conscious check on the recruitment of valuable resources to its medical transcription department. The eligibility criteria to get selected as the medical transcribers includes

  1. Mandatory to have a diploma or certification in Medical transcription
  2. Graduation from a reputed institute
  3. Excellent listening skills
  4. Good Spoken & written English communication
  5. Good Understanding of the medical terminologies
  6. Flexible to work timings

The Employee selection should meet with the outstanding demands of the company which in turn is responsible to take the medical transcription projects outstanding in their quality.

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Why outsourcing plays a major role in US health care industry ?

In the US health care industry the most extensively outsourced services are Medical transcription services. The offshore countries help the US health care industry by adopting the medical transcription process and providing best solutions when it comes to documentation of medical records at a comforting level. Documentation of Patient medical records is a tedious and prolonging process; this process made easy by the offshore medical transcription providers.

If the hospitals, clinical facilities, individual practitioners at US considers in-house employee for the medical transcription process, the manpower is costly and the practitioner is forced to invest lot of time and money on the medical transcribers and administrative personnel since The course of action in medical transcription is tough.

Advantages of outsourcing medical transcription include;

  • Cost cutting on In house manpower selection & training
  • No need to invest on costly infrastructure
  • Keeps operating costs low
  • Smoother flow of administrative functions
  • Fast, flexible & economic documentation of medical records
  • Higher preference and time allotted for patient care
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Medical Transcription Work Process Flow:

The information technology revolution in the health care industry makes the medical transcription process faster, simpler, and it helps in cost effective documentation of medical records.

Understanding the work flow process of the transcription domain is essential in smoother operation, client satisfaction and timely delivery of the transcripts. The medical offices, hospitals, individual practitioners, diagnostic facilities use the outsourcing transcription services because of the cost effectiveness and turn around time provided.

The physician dictates using toll free telephonic dictation lines or they may dictate the patient case history into digital audio recorders and upload the audio through any computer with an internet connection. The dictations reach the destination and it is received by the medical transcription process flow manager. The dictations are uploaded in the secure server and they are distributed to the medical transcribers.

The medical transcribers in the offshore countries are Excellent in Language skills, they are cost-saving since the pay scale is less & provide outstanding turn around time. The transcription is thoroughly proofread for any errors at 2 levels and the Quality checked transcripts are uploaded in the file server. The documented patient medical records reach the physician with in the stipulated turn around time.



Medical Transcription - An Introduction




What is Medical Transcription?

Medical transcription is the process of converting audio files of patient records, patient’s medical reports, operation reports, clinic notes, office notes, assessments, clinical procedures, diagnosis, and prognosis into electronic text format.

What is the need for Medical Transcription?

In western countries the doctors and patients can claim medical insurance based on the patients records which are documented. The documentation of the patients’ case history decides the medical insurance claims and lawsuits. So maintaining an extensive medical record is compulsory and essential for each patient treated.

The healthcare professionals are very busy with 24*7 patient care, administrational activities, frequent Seminars and conferences at medical colleges. Due to lack of time for the documentation of records, the health care professionals dictate the patient case history in a tape recorder which can be done very faster and the recorded audio can be documented.

Medical Transcription - Process:

The process of medical transcription is not completed. the patients medical records are recorded in audio format. With the help of internet technology booms, these audio files are transferred to offshore companies like India, Philippines, Pakistan and Kenya. These recordings are listened by the medical transcriber and the audio files are documented. The documented patients records are proof read and sent back to destinations( Hospitals, Clinics And individual Practitioners)