Healthcare sector eying offshore medical transcription

Jun 7
06:12

2011

Sharad Gaikwad

Sharad Gaikwad

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Medical transcription is one of the most flourishing industries of the world. There is a huge demand for medical transcription companies and it also happens to be one of the most prestigious industries to be working in too.

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Medical transcription companies basically transcribe all kind of information that a health care professional would need for example: a patient’s treatment history,Healthcare sector eying offshore medical transcription Articles clinical data, medical notes and procedures, discharge summaries, psychiatric evaluations, laboratory along with operative reports, consultation notes, etc. thus, in short, medical transcription companies make a medical professional’s life much easier.  

Medical transcription outsourcing is one of the most recent trends in this arena. This essentially involves outsourcing your transcription work to another country. Countries like the United States and the United Kingdom have quite a few strict laws in their respective countries with regard to their medical data and patient treatment documentation. Also, the cost for hospitals and clinics on in-house transcription facilities is quite high. Thus, medical transcription within these countries is very expensive. Thus, Medical transcription outsourcing works well for them.

Medical transcription companies have to make sure they have competent as well as experienced transcriptionists. This is very important so that these transcriptionists can clearly decode the information dictated by healthcare professionals. All this information needs to be converted into documents such as autopsy, discharge summaries, operating room notes and become a very vital part of a patient’s medical records. Thus, medical transcription outsourcing needs to be done by a well-equipped and well-experienced transcription company to avoid any errors.  

The most famous countries for their medical transcription work are India, Turkey, Philippines, Brazil and Bangladesh. These are some of the countries which receive most number of offshore medical transcriptions. The reason why they are much more favored than other countries is because most transcriptionists in these countries are well versed with the English language. So transcribing audio files for them isn’t a very tough job and they can also do their job more accurately. Also, another contributing factor for Offshore medical transcription is that the currency rates of these countries are much lower than those with dollars and pounds. Thus, clinics and hospitals can cut down a lot of costs which would otherwise have been spent on transcription.

Thus, outsourcing medical transcriptions is a good alternative for all clinics an hospitals as they can save a lot of their time and money and in addition to that they can focus more on their job and their patients instead of worrying about things like documentation.