Simplified: The Process Of Medical Transcription
Posted on: January 9, 2015 | Posted by: excel scribe
Are you a medical professional who is about to hire medical transcription services for the first time? If yes, then, here is what you need to know about the process.
What is Medical Transcription Service?
According to Wikipedia, Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians or other healthcare professionals into text format.
What to look for in a potential transcription company?
The medical transcript document is a crucial one. Since a patient’s life is at stake, quality medical transcription services focus on:
- 100% adherence to HIPPA standards
- Acquisition and retention of highly trained and experienced medical transcriptionists
- Acquisition and retention of equally competent quality analysts
- A highly secure processing of audio files and transcribed documents
- Strict adherence to turnaround time
It cannot be a primary criterion, but you must consider transcription services that has been operational for a few years. This time period allows them to eliminate operational bugs and offer you only the most flawless of services.
What is the Process of Medical Transcription, once I Upload the Document?
1 | Medical transcriptions get queued as per the level of urgency. |
2 | The dictation is allotted to the medical transcriptionists as per their level of expertise and knowledge. |
3 | Medical transcriptionists transcribe the dictation into the pre-approved template. |
4 | Quality analyst (level 1) rechecks the entire document for blanks, flags, sentence construction, grammar and formatting. |
5 | Quality analyst (level 2) rechecks the entire document again for any error. |
6 | Completely checked document is uploaded to your account ia secure website. You can login, download and review the document. |
This process ensures that you receive an accurate transcription within the predetermined time frame. Do you have any other questions or doubts we haven’t addressed?
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