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Abacus: EMR/EHR: The role of Medical Transcription in emer...

Abacus: EMR/EHR: The role of Medical Transcription in emer...: "The healthcare sector today is going through reforms in many forms and fashions but we will focus in this blog about technological cha..."

EMR/EHR: The role of Medical Transcription in emerging technologies scenario

The  healthcare sector today is going through reforms in many forms and fashions but we will focus in this blog about technological changes and challenges these changes pose to the medical transcription industry viz a viz outsourced transcription. 

The traditional way of documenting the patient-doctor encounter is in transformation phase after  the Stimulus Package. This Stimulus not only calls for adoption of EMR/EHR systems using certified equipment and demonstrating meaningful use, but is also offering benefits for those practices which comply. This change has raised concerns and  questions about the role of medical transcription services in this new sphere of technology where doctors are supposed to input the data themselves real-time .

Since nationwide  healthcare system is going electronic, the role of medical transcription becomes even more significant as opposed to commonly perceived thought that the new technology will eliminate or marginalize the medical transcription. 

Over the last two decades, outsourced Outsourced medical transcription has been continuously evolving and  making its place in the healthcare industry by responding to the technological challenges and adopting to the ever changing dynamics of the healthcare industry. As of this day, Medical Transcription services assist and contribute to improve healthcare standards by:

• Improving the turnaround time
• Improving the quality of documentation
• Adopting to new technology
• Reducing costs
• Keeping archive of not only documents but the physician's dictations 

Although the EMR/EHR offers the flexibility of punching in patient encounter details directly by the physician, the fact cannot be ignored that all encounter details cannot be punched in and narrative text is required for elaboration. The role of medical transcriptionist comes in at this point where more narrative information will be required. Also, many a times, the data is incomplete at patient encounter, for example some lab work or radiological studies might not have returned at the time of encounter, and a supplementary note from the physician will have to be inserted into the patient record. In nutshell, the role of medical transcription will change the way we see it today, but only making it more significant and important in a physician's back office processes.

Abacus Transcriptions, Inc, a premier  medical transcription company based in Houston has a unique history of serving clients across continents for over a decade. During this time,  Abacus Transcriptions has not only capitalized on extensive knowledge base of their core function i.e. transcription, but also in information technology. Over years, Abacus Transcriptions has been coming up with innovative ideas of adopting latest technologies to improve the service level, turn around time and quality. The solutions that Abacus Transcriptions has developed are based on rich knowledge base and customer feedback spanning over a decade. This solution offers HIPAA standard security, cost saving, and a 24/7 customer support should a client require any assistance ranging from finding a 4-year-old document from archive to technical issues. Simply said, this solution helps save money, time and effort for the busy doctors. As the emerging challenge is EMR/EHR adoption, Abacus Transcriptions has responded, once again, in a timely fashion by offering their clients the flexibility of integration of their system with all leading EMR/EHR systems which enables the transcription reports to go directly into the EMR/EHR thus populating the patient records. This is on top of the flexibility of  on-line digital signatures,  fax and email options that are all offered through a friendly web-based system. Using this System, physicians have access to patient records wherever they are at 24/7.

Abacus Transcriptions offers complete solution for outsourced medical transcription which is HIPAA compliant and adaptable with HITECH and HL7 standards.

To see the Abacus Transcriptions System, and request a free trial click here.