Hospitals are outsourcing medical transcription to achieve meaningful use goals and to make the most of technological advancements.

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Outsourcing Medical Transcription Helps Hospitals
Meet Meaningful Use Requirements
Hospitals are outsourcing medical transcription to
achieve meaningful use goals and to make the
most of technological advancements.
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The medical transcription industry has undergone significant changes in the recent past.
There is a growing demand for electronic health record (EHR) integrated transcription
services and improved speech-recognition and data-mining technology. These developments
have transformed the role of the medical transcriptionist and made medical transcription
outsourcing a viable option for hospitals.
The HITECH Act makes provisions for incentives to eligible professionals (EPs), eligible
hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs), and Medicare Advantage Organizations that
adopt and implement meaningful use of interoperable health information technology (HIT)
and qualified electronic health records (EHRs). These incentive payments are of the effort to
speed up the adoption of HIT and use of qualified EHRs.
To meet meaningful use requirements, many hospitals now prefer to partner with a medical
transcription company rather than carry out the dictation-to-text task in-house. According
to a report in fosters.com, a Dover-based hospital opted to outsource its entire medical
transcription department as a part of quality control and to make the EHR transition easier.
Meaningful Use Requirements drive Decision to Outsource Transcription
One of the main factors that spurred the Dover-based healthcare organization to outsource
its entire transcription department was the EHR mandate.
According to HealthIT.gov, “meaningful use” of digital medical and health records will
provide the following benefits:
 Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities
 Engage patients and family
 Improve care coordination, and population and public health
 Maintain privacy and security of patient health information
Organizations that do not meet the deadline for electronic medical record implementation
face penalties. Physicians who either have not adopted certified EHR / EMR systems or
cannot demonstrate “meaningful use” by the EMR deadline face reductions in Medicare
reimbursements. The payment deduction rate increases over years – it was 1% and 2% in
2015 and 2016 respectively, and is 3% in 2017 and 4% in 2018.

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Medical transcriptionists help physicians achieve meaningful use with faster and more
accurate information through EHR-integrated documentation solutions.
The adoption of speech recognition technology has grown along with the implementation of
electronic health records. In the EHR age, speech recognition software adds efficiency to
the transcription process. Physicians often find themselves restricted by the point-and-click
templates of the EHR. Real-time transcription of the provider’s dictation using speech
recognition helps preserve the quality of the narrative and improves medical documentation.
Relevance of Medical Transcription Services in the EHR Age
Digital records and other new technologies have transformed the role of medical
transcriptionists. The use of speech recognition technologies has improved their
productivity. In fact, transcriptionists now function as editors. This is especially evident in
specialties radiology where back-end speech recognition allows transcribers to edit
radiologists’ dictation and provide quality transcripts in fast turnaround time. Medical
transcription services have definitely made the transition to digital patient record keeping
much smoother, in addition to helping medical facilities reduce overhead costs and save
time.
The positive aspect about the Dover hospital’s medical transcription outsourcing decision
was that it made alternate provisions for the staff that were displaced. Many were offered
positions by the transcription service provider.