Healthcare documentation or medical transcription is about transcribing what a physician or healthcare provider dictates regarding a patient encounter. This process involves a lot of medical terminologies related to health ailments, diagnoses, treatment procedures, medical equipment used, tests conducted and drugs prescribed along with the general demographic information of a patient. In India, healthcare documentation […]
Tips to Improve Your Healthcare Documentation Skills
Speed and accuracy are as important in healthcare documentation as the knowledge of medical terminology. Learning about human anatomy, health conditions and other medical terminology is one aspect and typing with speed and accuracy is another aspect; mastering these two skills simultaneously is not impossible although it’s a challenging task. If you want to become […]
Healthcare Documentation in Virtual Doctor Visits
Gone are the days when patients waited in a crowded area to consult their doctor. The advancement in technology coupled with the necessity to avoid crowds due to the COVID-19 pandemic has spiked up the use of virtual doctor visits or telemedicine. There is a huge benefit of telemedicine in the form of cost reduction […]
Remote Patient Monitoring – What You Need to Understand?
Healthcare documentation or medical transcription is a critical healthcare service that eases the work of physicians and other healthcare workers and at the same time, helps in accumulating data that can be utilized for studying the most pressing concerns of the healthcare industry and identifying solutions to address those concerns. Medical transcriptionists work and prepare […]
Challenges in Healthcare Documentation
Healthcare documentation (medical transcription) is one of the most critical processes in the healthcare industry that provides the basis for physician follow-up, decision making of the physicians and the processes of medical coding and medical billing. The medical coding process assigns different codes to the services provided and procedures performed taking the transcription reports as […]
What Does a Healthcare Documentation Specialist Do?
A healthcare documentation specialist or a medical transcriptionist is a crucial resource for a healthcare facility for, the important task of documenting a patient’s visit is performed by a transcriptionist. A medical transcriptionist listens to the voice recording of a physician and transcribes it into a report in a prescribed format. A transcriptionist may even […]
Impact of Healthcare Documentation on Healthcare Practices
Healthcare practices focus on a lot of things like quality patient care, timely reimbursements, maintaining accurate and appropriate health records, etc. However, what most of the facilities forget is that in doing all these things, one group of people plays a crucial role and it is their problems that are not paid much attention. This […]
Role of a Healthcare Documentation Specialist in the Medical Industry
With the adoption of electronic health records, a significant transition is taking place in the healthcare industry where the physicians and the healthcare staff themselves are being made to record their services and procedures electronically with the help of technology. However, it should be remembered by all in the healthcare industry that mere deployment of […]
Equipment that help Healthcare Documentation Specialists
Healthcare documentation or medical transcription is a lucrative career option for those who wish to work in the healthcare industry but are not doctors or other allied healthcare professionals. Healthcare documentation specialists, also called medical transcriptionists, listen to the audio files dictated by physicians regarding their patient encounters, diagnoses, test reports, and medication or treatment […]
Understanding the Future of Healthcare Documentation
One of the most critical processes in the healthcare industry is healthcare documentation or medical transcription that eases the job of the physicians and the support staff to a great extent. For the people who want to make a career with the healthcare documentation jobs, the future really looks optimistic. There are many technological aspects […]