Medical transcription services are not all alike and it pays to be careful when choosing them. You definitely want to try the service out before committing, but do you know what you should be looking for in a medical transcription service? Here are three of the most important things to watch for.

1. Document security. This is probably the single most important feature of a medical transcription service. If they are HIPAA compliant, you can probably trust them, but check to find out what security measures are being taken for dictation delivery and documents.
2. Quality. If there are spelling errors in your documents that you have done during the trial process, you don´t want to go with that medical transcription service. Quality is almost as important as security, so look for a medical transcription company that offers quality guidelines.
3. Service. Make sure that it´s possible to actually get hold of the medical transcription service. During the trial period, see if you can contact the service through their various support systems. You should be able to call or email at the very least, but a good service will also offer live chat.

When you have a medical transcription service that performs to your standards in all three areas, you are ready to commit. It can be tough to find a good medical transcription company that is of high quality, low prices and that offers great support.

TransDyne is definitely a medical transcription service bent on providing quality at an affordable price. You don´t have the budget for a full time transcriptionist in your medical practice, but that doesn´t mean you can´t have medical transcription whenever you need it.

With transcriptionists around the world, you are guaranteed that someone will be available around the clock to work on your medical transcriptions, which is one of the advantages of TransDyne. You´ll get fast, quality service, but at a lower cost than US-based medical transcription services.

But that doesn´t mean that TransDyne offers inferior service, quite the opposite in fact! Your documents will be carefully checked according to strict quality guidelines and then double checked and proofread in the US. While the English is usually of the highest standard, you can rest assured that a native English speaker has also gone over the documents before delivery to ensure that they are perfect.

You might not realize how much your medical practice will benefit from a medical transcription service. It can be a huge plus to your business, for a variety of reasons.

Outsourcing your medical transcription will save the practice a lot of money. Rather than paying monthly wages and benefits, you´ll end up paying far less with one up jobs. You´ll pay per transcription rather than by the hour for a full time transcriptionist.

In addition, your medical practice can really benefit from medical transcription outsourcing because you are able to focus more on the actual patient and business side of things, without having to be all caught up in the paperwork. Obviously medical transcription won´t eliminate the need for paperwork, but it can certainly help! You´ll save a lot of valuable time this way, too.

With medical transcription, you can stay focused on the more important parts of your medical practice and leave the paperwork to the professionals. It´s cheaper and far more efficient than doing it in house and you´ll find that it really is worth hiring a medical transcription service.

The trust is that medical transcription is a win/win situation for all involved. The patient benefits because their information is documented safely and securely, the transcriptionist benefits because it´s a great job, and you benefit, as the doctor, for a variety of reasons.

• Saves time. This is particularly true if you are no good at typing, but most people can speak faster than they can type.
• Easy. Talking. That´s pretty simple!
• Faster. Chances are you wouldn´t be able to type up the medical documents and get everything else done this quickly. Your medical transcriptionist will have your documents back to you in just a day or two.
• Frees you up. If you don´t have to worry about medical transcription, you can focus on other tasks and get a lot more done.

Medical transcription has a lot of benefits that you are sure to enjoy. As a medical professional, your time is very valuable and you need to start using it wisely. That includes outsourcing things that can be done better by others to free up your time.

One of the most important things when choosing a medical transcription service is to find a good, safe one. TransDyne provides top quality and security, to make sure that your documents are sent securely to you and we take great pride in our customer service. Take a look at a few of the things we offer to make sure you have a great medical transcription service.

• HIPAA compliance ensures that your patient data will be safe in our hands, so you can be confident that your documents will be treated with care.

• Secure document delivery is very important at TransDyne, so you´ll find that you will receive your documents in the most secure manner possible.

• Your dictations are also safe with us. Send them to us via a secure server and they won´t be compromised.

At TransDyne, you´ll find that your patient information is well protected. You can even try us out for a week, to see for yourself how everything works. With high quality, error-free transcriptions and safe document delivery, it´s a good way to go when you need medical transcription done.

Often, the commute is long, so why not use it as time for dictating so your medical transcriptionist can work during the day, while you are busy with other things? This can be a great way to put all that extra time sitting in traffic to use. It´s also an excellent method of getting in the habit of dictating every day.

You can use a digital recorder with a hands free setup to make life easier. This will allow you record without any problems as you drive or stay sitting in your car, waiting for traffic to move again. It´s also handy for taking your dictations with you wherever you go, so you can record some in the car, and more at home or in the office, depending on how much medical transcription you´ll need.

Another method of doing medical transcription from your car is to simply use the phone-in service with your cell phone and using a hands free setup. This is not as portable, since once you hang up, your dictation is sent to a medical transcriptionist, but if the documents you need transcripted are short, it could be ideal.

When choosing a medical transcription service, it is absolutely vital that they offer a free trial. You wouldn´t buy a car without test driving it and you shouldn´t sign up with a medical transcription service either until you have had a chance to try it out. There are several reasons why the trial is important.

• It lets you know that the medical transcription service considers its work to be of high quality, they wouldn´t give you a free trial if they thought otherwise!

• You can test the quality of service and see if the quality is as good as the company claims, you should see less than 3-5% errors.

• Try out the Customer Support. If you find it too slow or unhelpful, you´ll definitely want to look elsewhere and won´t have spent any money.

• See for yourself how fast the service is. You´ll be able to gauge from your trial offer whether or not this medical transcription service is fast enough for you.

The trial offer is a very useful time period where you can see exactly what the medical transcription service is like, for yourself. At the end of the test period, you will have a good idea of whether or not the service is for you.

Who doesn´t need to be more productive? The truth is that everyone could use a little help now and then and medical transcription is a great service at your fingertips. Unlike days gone by, you can now work when YOU choose, not when the medical transcriptionist is available. In fact, thanks to internet, we´ve got medical transcriptionists available around the world, ready to work 24 hours a day!

This can really boost your productivity in a variety of ways.

• Work when you are fresh. Or when you´re tired, whichever is the best time for you to do your dictations. It´s your choice.

• Fit dictations into dead moments, waiting in line at the drivethrough, during television commercials . . . whenever you have a spare moment and aren´t doing anything else.

• Record directly onto your computer and save files into a special medical transcription folder where the service will automatically pick it up and process it within 48 hours.

Medical transcription really does boost productivity and that in turn gives you more free time to do with as you please. Less paperwork, less time . . . it all adds up to a happy doctor!

Medical transcription tends to be an important part of medicine, despite the time it takes to work on it. Properly caring for your medical transcription tools, your handheld recorder, will stand you in good stead, since it will mean everything gets done faster, from the dictation to the actual transcription process, since the medical transcriptionist can hear you better.

• Read the instruction and care booklet that comes with the digital recorder, this will give you a very good idea of how to look after your medical transcription tool.

• Never leave your equipment in extreme temperatures, such as in your car on a cold or hot day.

• When connecting to your computer, be sure to disable the device on your computer before disconnecting it and always wait until the files are finished uploading or canceled before disconnecting.

• Use a tissue to wipe dust from your medical transcription tools on a regular basis, but don´t let them get damp. To remove dust from any openings, you can use compressed air.

Caring for your medical transcription equipment is vital to keep it working well. Abrupt disconnections and extreme temperatures will cause your recording to be of poor quality and the recorder will not last as long.

Support from the medical transcription service is a very important feature, but one that is often lacking. In order to give you lower prices, many medical transcription services basically eliminate the support team, making any help available only through email which can take days to respond to. You will have chosen the service for their excellent service, of course, but that doesn´t mean things can´t go wrong or that you´ll never have questions.

Despite all efforts to be efficient and high quality, every medical transcription service has misunderstandings or isn´t clear at some point. This is when it can really help to be able to simply call them, or shoot off an email that will be responded to in a timely fashion. This isn´t easy to find, unfortunately and perhaps the best way to find out if the medical transcription service you are going with is a good one, is to try out their free trial. Try each of the methods they offer for support. A good transcription company will give you email and phone at least. An excellent one will even provide you with a third option, live instant messaging so you can get answers fast.

Good medical transcription support should be high on your list of priorities when choosing a medical transcription company. This will help you out greatly in the future when you have questions or an issue that you need resolved immediately, not when someone has the time to send you an email.