admin on June 8th, 2010
The medical transcription industry has been evolving for years and is today a respectable profession that pays well and professional medical transcriptionists (MT) get all the required support from various medical transcription industry organizations. With the rapid growth expected for the entire health care sector there has been a spurt in the growth of transcription companies at all levels world wide. In the US on March 7, 2006, the Medical transcription occupation became eligible for the U.S. Department of Labor Apprenticeship.
The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) was formerly known by the name of the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) and was established in the year 1978. It was formed to obtain recognition and contribute towards patient safety and more accurate medical records. The AHDI is an organization that the MTs join for validation and protection. The association also offers many resources that are of use to those in the MT industry and it takes pride in following the latest and modern trends. What are the types of services offered by AHDI? Well the primary services are concerned with,
Giving of advice
Networking
Job opportunities
Today, advances in digital technology has made it possible for many medical transcriptionists to work more efficiently and comfortably even from the privacy of their homes.
One other organization that promotes the MT industry is the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). MTIA is a non-profit trade association that represents the companies, vendors, and health professionals. Working alongside AHDI, the association has greatly helped to improve the medical transcription industry and maintain health records world wide. MTIA services include,
Access to thousands of vendor suppliers through a transcription service finder
Sponsors events and conferences annually
Networking through its website.
Provides cutting edge technology know-how to MTs
Source: http://maryanngarth.easyworldwidemall.com/2010/05/29/the-medical-transcription-industry-organizations/
admin on May 7th, 2009
Cost-effective medical transcription services for hospitals and clinics are offered by reputable medical transcription companies.
At present, medical transcription services are in high demand in a variety of healthcare settings in the United States. Exclusive medical transcription services for hospitals and clinics are provided by recognized and experienced companies in the field.
Excellent Medical Transcription Service
Most medical transcription companies offer HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant medical transcription service in a highly professional and affordable manner. Medical transcription involves the process of transcribing the dictations made by physicians and other healthcare professionals into medical reports. These records could be clinic notes, office notes, diagnostic procedure notes, discharge summaries, operative or consultation notes and SOAP notes.
Well-trained Transcriptionists to Handle the Demands
Medical transcription firms comprise a team of skilled and experienced medical transcriptionists, proofreaders and quality analysts to handle the transcription needs of hospitals and clinics. They utilize the best combination of tools and techniques including dictation equipments, dedicated servers and high-end computers with uninterrupted high speed internet. Well-trained medical transcribers in these firms offer medical transcription service in various specialties including orthopedics, cardiology, pediatrics, gastroenterology, internal medicine, radiology, chiropractic and podiatry.
Benefits Ensured by Service Providers
Service providers process records and maintain high accuracy levels up to 99%. Other service features include:
HL7 transcription interface
3 levels of quality assurance
Commitment to accuracy
Transferring of files: FTP and browser based 256 bit AES encryption protocol
Customized turnaround times
Convenient dictation methods: toll free number and digital dictation
Medical transcription service helps healthcare providers to improve overall efficiency and reduces the workload of staffs.
Find a Trustworthy Company
If you need medical transcription service, get in touch with a provider, who offers high quality service at the industry’s most competitive price structure. Before choosing the right provider, do a comparative study of various service providers and the price structures offered.
Above article published on
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/medical-transcription-service-for-hospitals-and-clinics.html
admin on April 28th, 2009
By Paul Watson | Tribune Newspapers
MANILA – It started out as a Thanksgiving Day stomachache, a nagging pain that sharpened until it reverberated from California halfway around the world.
When the ache in her lower abdomen became excruciating, the young woman was rushed to a surgery center, where the doctor diagnosed a ruptured appendix.
The woman needed an operation—fast. But before the surgeon could wheel her into the operating theater, he had to find out whether the patient’s insurance company would pay. That meant paperwork: A report had to be dictated, typed up and submitted to her insurer for approval.
So while the woman waited in agony, her doctor dialed a toll-free number.
The instant he hung up a few minutes later, a digitized recording raced through fiber-optic cables on the Pacific Ocean seabed and into a computer server on the 17th floor of a Manila office tower, where medical school graduate Dinah Barrete was working the graveyard shift.
Headphones plugged in, she tapped a pedal to start the doctor’s voice file and began typing. Her transcription of his report was on its way to him via the Internet in 15 minutes, as quickly as if the work had been done just down the hall, but much less expensive.
In a startling illustration of the life-or-death decisions involving low-paid workers thousands of miles away, Americans’ most personal details move 24 hours a day as U.S. health-care providers outsource billions of lines of transcription work each year to Asia in a bid to cut the cost of medical bureaucracy.
From dictated summaries of checkups to complete recordings of surgeons’ conversations in operating theaters, foreign workers are transforming the digital audio files into the documents that tell Americans’ medical histories.
Most of the work is done for 10 to 15 cents a line in less than 24 hours. Audio files dispatched across the Internet are transcribed and the text is fired back to the U.S. to meet government demands for a shift to electronic medical records.
Before broadband connections made it easy to outsource office work, Americans typed out medical records.
Now thousands of low-paid workers in countries such as India, the Philippines and Pakistan work in offices that never close. Tapping feverishly at keyboards, Asian transcriptionists often strain to understand what American doctors have dictated through phone lines or into digital recorders.
Other typists work under similar pressure to transfer decades-old medical documents into computer files.
Outsourcing isn’t expected to harm job prospects for American transcriptionists because there is so much work to be done, said a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 101,000 Americans were employed as medical transcriptionists in 2002, according to the bureau.
Above article published on http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-medical-recordsapr21,0,1137569.story?track=rss
