Digital platform for medical transcriptions
When a choice has to be made on choosing an appropriate digital platform, an evaluation of the features need to be scrutinized before buying or using it, a task that many may not have time for, this document is intended to assist a clinic or a healthcare provider to choose the right digital platform, the study however will be limited to fundamental requirements to look for in the product.
How functional should a module be?
The digital technology has automated almost all operations in healthcare documentation, thus improving all round efficiency in providing the best healthcare to the patients. The transcription process is an integral part of a practice small or big, the administrative responsibilities remain the same notwithstanding the size of the practice.
The automation in the transcription process helps in eliminating repetitive tasks, saving valuable time. An efficient digital platform for transcriptions should have provisions of tracking all activity of sending and receiving voice files and documents.
The automated process must be enabled to allow doctors to route dictations to transcription vendors, and should have an option for the QA to examine the quality of the transcripts, before the completed records are sent to the doctor.
The digital platform must have an interface that will display the time of the uploaded dictation, the run time of the dictation, and an all important feature of line counts. It must be supported with a feature that includes details of price paid to different vendors.
How to choose the best possible solution for data transfer?
There are different options available for data transfer such as FTP or Email, they are the most widely used solutions by healthcare providers, but because they require a special encryption and decryption software which is compliant with HIPAA regulations, operations of these mediums for data transfer require cumbersome administration inputs, the digital platform does away the need for using FTP or Email, a simple login enables the clinician to read the dictation into the system and the MT vendor processes it instantly and making it available to the clinician for review.
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