(919) 477-5152Healthcare Support Staff
The first thing that might enter your mind when you consider healthcare are the doctors and nurses. What you probably don’t consider is the support staff required to operate any healthcare facility – and it is a sizeable support staff. From the x-ray technicians to the equipment manufacturers, there is an entire world of healthcare support staff working hard to ensure that patients are provided with the highest quality of care.
Taking Care of Transcription Business
Fortunately, medical transcription services are available to take charge of transcription needs and help reduce the workload of healthcare support staff. Instead of having to employ more in-house staff to handle transcribing, transcription work can be outsourced to a company whose primary focus is medical transcription. This means one less department to manage.
Transcription services also ensure the delivery of transcribed materials 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whether it is a weekend or a holiday, healthcare professionals can rest assured that the transcripts they need will be delivered.
Managing Health Information
Another avenue transcription services may help reduce support staff workload is through the careful management of health information. Transcribers ensure that each medical record is recorded with accuracy, delivering the transcript in a timely and secure manner. Support staff no longer has to deal with tracking down missing medical records or not being able to read a physician’s notes. The transcribed material contains all of the necessary information in a legible format, and it is delivered in the preferred format. All of this helps ensure that a patient’s medical information is accessible, easy to coordinate, and always accurate.
Adhering to Industry Standards
The law requires the careful handling of medical records, including maintaining records for a specific period of time. Medical transcription services allow for easier maintenance and storage of these records by providing digital files that can easily be stored in a variety of ways. This helps ease the burden on support staff to maintain those records in-house.
The recent EMR mandate, which aims to give every patient an electronic health record file, is another industry standard that is required. Transcription services utilizing the latest in technology help to ensure that healthcare facilities meet the requirements of the mandate. Support staff is free to focus on the operations of the facilities, rather than dealing with the EMR mandate – the transcription company has it covered.
These are just a few of the ways that transcription services help reduce the workload for healthcare support staff. Essentially, these kinds of services are a crucial part of the backbone of the healthcare industry.
To learn more about how outsourcing transcription needs can help ease the workload of your support staff, contact us or call our office at 1-800-334-6606.