Sunday, March 29, 2009

Medical Transcription Through Outsourcing

Medical Transcription is one of the many activities that have benefitted from outsourced. Medical Transcription refers to the changeover to text of recorded physician notes. This activity has long been carried out by transcription services allied to the hospitals. Nevertheless, with the outburst of offshoring, there has been a displacement in the service delivery model adopted for medical transcriptioning. There has been a paradigm motion in the epicenter of medical transcription to India. With more and more companies mushrooming in India to cater outsourced medical transcription services to US based clients, it has spelt a windfall in savings for US based medical practices.

After the initial rancor against outsourcing, it has come to be recognized as the de facto way of doing medical transcription primarily as a means to cut costs.
No wonder, outsourced transcription services are focusing on cost as their USP. However, the inclination has been such that medical practices are set to spend more for qualitative service. Also, practices have got more sensible about the data safeguard issues. Patient data handling becomes a determining measure on which medical transcription services are being judged. Also, pricing clarity, quicker turnaround time and proper pricing criteria are other factors by which a medical transcription services judged.

Speech Recognition software has yet not become precise enough to be trusted with patient notes transcription. So for some years more, manual medical transcription with the sustenance of software and equipments will be the chosen style of transcription.

But it is undependable that medical transcription services shall accept technology to improve efficiency of the transcription process.

For more information about medical transcription services, go to http://www.medicaltranscriptionsservice.com/
Julli Agarwal is a veteran in the field of medical transcription
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