MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION

As healthcare becomes an increasingly important concern for many people, the need to provide quality healthcare services and records is becoming a mandate rather than an option for hospitals, clinics, dentists, laboratories, elderly care facilities and other health organizations. Quality healthcare is now associated with and dependent on the quality of medical records such as medical report transcripts, discharge summary transcripts, and radiology transcripts.

It is important that patients’ medical records are kept organized and up-to-date. These include patient histories, physical examination and consultation reports, progress notes, discharge summaries, radiographic analysis, and referral notes. On the other hand, doctors and medical professionals are hard-pressed and lack the time to sit down and write the reports themselves.

Innovations in technology have made it possible for doctors and medical professionals to record their reports through dictation devices such as hand-held PCs and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Advances in voice recognition technology have also allowed for the instant transcription of medical documents through the use of Voice Recognition Software (VRS). VRS is a transcription software that allows you to dictate your report and have it converted to text, where your medical transcript is done completely by the computer. What you have is a virtual medical transcriptionist.

One thing remains clear, though. Despite technological advances, the medical profession remains one field where in many cases, a human is still better than a computer, especially in medical transcription. Although speech recognition technology has made possible a lot of things, it remains only a medical transcription shortcut, not a transcription replacement. Imagine having to spend hours training the software to recognize your voice, and feeding thousands of technical medical terms so that the software will get it right. It is a daunting task, and there is an easier solution.

Capital Typing provides quality medical transcriptions at an affordable cost. Our medical transcriptionists are trained and experienced in doing transcriptions on all types of medical specialties, and will be able to get your transcription work done in less than half the time it will take you to train the software and encode the dictionary words. In addition, our quality assurance system guarantees that your transcription will be at least 99% accurate, which is something that voice recognition software or a harried staff member will not be able to assure you.