| Medical Transcription is a fast growing and | | | | unlike today, medical coding may become |
| evolving sector that has been influenced by many | | | | embedded within documentation thereby not |
| factors over the years. As preferences and | | | | requiring it to be a separate process and help |
| standards have been constantly changing we see | | | | further reduce the overall cost of medical |
| that one of the most significant aspects of | | | | transcription. |
| medical transcription has been the shift to | | | | The growing need for medical transcription to |
| electronic patient record. What are the basic | | | | comply with basic Principles of documentation had |
| factors that have been responsible for evolution | | | | been earlier developed by the Consensus |
| of the medical transcription sector of the | | | | Workgroup on Healthcare Documentation & |
| healthcare industry? There are three basic | | | | Report Generation. It had looked into the following |
| factors; | | | | aspects of medical transcription. |
| Advancement in technology | | | | Patient details |
| Practice workflow | | | | Accuracy of document |
| Regulations | | | | Completeness |
| There has been a lot of demand to enhance | | | | Timeliness |
| patient safety, increase efficiency, and reduce the | | | | Interoperability |
| cost of transcription. Outsourcing has been a | | | | Retrievability |
| solution in this regard. However, even though it | | | | Authentication |
| has become mandatory for transcription service | | | | Accountability |
| providers and healthcare practices to have a | | | | Auditability |
| HIPAA compliant environment, there are many | | | | Confidentiality |
| companies who still have to adhere to this | | | | Security |
| requirement. | | | | The change from old traditional methods is quickly |
| In the distant future one can be sure that the | | | | taking place with the improvements in speech |
| voice recognition software will greatly improve | | | | recognition technology and natural language |
| and may slowly even replace manual medical | | | | processing, and more technologies trying to taking |
| transcription. Adopted technologies such as speech | | | | over the industry. It is very necessary that |
| recognition software and application service | | | | today's MT professional must move with the |
| providers (ASPs) can keep up with the demands | | | | times and not resist these inevitable changes of |
| of regulations, standards, and cutting-edge | | | | evolution. |
| demands in this sector. One can also expect that | | | | |