Application of medical transcription services

Jul 4
07:32

2012

Sharad Gaikwad

Sharad Gaikwad

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As a doctor, a clinic or a hospital, maintaining and preserving operational and patient health records is of paramount importance. Doing so carries with it an array of benefits;

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collecting demographic data of the consumer pool,Application of medical transcription services Articles easy and error free recall of patient history, less time lag in delivery of services, include a few. However, as important is the creation and maintenance of data, equally important is the time invested into doing it. With numerous surgeries or appointments lined up for the day, a doctor is practically not left with enough time and energy at the end, to maintain records. Moreover, we see that the quantity of time invested and precision of the job done don’t usually go hand in hand. Whereas, the crux of maintaining the medical typing records, is all about striking harmony between these discordant factors. An exponential increase in the scope and diversity of medical services in recent years further stresses the importance of this job, as well as the precision with which it is done and the time put in to do it! 

The answer lies in a service protocol that is more famously known as ‘medical transcription services’. It comprises of a setup wherein professionally trained transcriptionists are deployed along with the best technology for meeting the demands of the present day expanse and pace of medical services.

Modus Operandi:

The basic job of a medical transcription service provider is to jot down all that a client dictates with the maximum possible accuracy and speed. The produced record is then converted to an electronic form. This electronic form of the records is then available at the client’s disposal, 24 x 7. 

However, evolution and improvement of procedures and technology have led to the development of high end ‘voice-to-text’ convertors. This leap has brought with it a few path changing boons. The tedious and error prone task of medical transcription production has now become much less error prone. Besides, automatization of the procedures has considerably reduced time investment in the job. The novel digital procedures make a provision for the doctor to directly speak into the software which not only records what is spoken, but also converts the audio into legible text! So the earlier human intervention dependent method now finds an apt digital alternative. The new procedure is not only much faster and precise, but it also reduces human intervention in the task, which thereby diminishes time lags and human induced errors. 

However, regardless of the extent of digitization of the procedures, human effort still remains invariably important. Transcript generation requires the entire spectrum of medical terms to be well understood while doing the Medical typing. Moreover, elaboration on certain succinct point too becomes important at times. This, together with making the rendering of quality service even more challenging, makes it equally rewarding too! The profession of medical transcript writing has thereby surfaced as one that allows a respectable income for a practitioner. For the professional, however, it is invariably vital to possess an in depth knowledge of the jargon of his branch. 

All in all... what makes Medical transcription writing a promising profession is its exponentially increasing application in the industry and the respectable remuneration it brings with it!