Outsourcing general surgery medical transcription

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal organs, e.g., intestines including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon,liver , pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland (depending on the availability of head and neck surgery specialists). They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast,  and hernias. These surgeons deal mainly in the Torso.General Surgery medical transcription involves the transcription of audio records dictated by General surgeons and other related healthcare professionals’ encounter with patients. Knowing that it takes a specialist to take care specialist medical transcription needs, TransDyne has trained a team of medical transcriptionists in the language of General Surgery.  This has enabled the medical transcriptionists...

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More Hospitals Settle, But Not for Much

In late February, there have been several notable legal settlements made by more or less prominent hospitals, discussed in rough order of size.United Regional Health Care SystemPer the Cypress Times,The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with United Regional Health Care System of Wichita Falls, Texas, that prohibits it from entering into contracts that improperly inhibit commercial health insurers from contracting with United Regional�s competitors. The department said that United Regional unlawfully used these contracts to maintain its monopoly for hospital services in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, causing consumers to pay higher prices for health care services.Note that this appears to be the first settlement involving the Sherman Anti-Trust...

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"Give yourself something to work toward - constantly." ~ Mary Kay Ash What are you constantly working towards to live your drea...

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The Japanese Congress and the Global Health Forum

This week,  I traveled to Japan as part of a 'US-Japan health care policy dialogue' a partnership between the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based foreign policy institute, and the Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI), based in Tokyo.  This collaboration between American and Japanese experts focused on critical areas of innovation and reform in the health sectors of both Japan and the United States - initially payment systems and healthcare IT.  Over the next 6 months, we'll complete an analysis with actionable policy recommendations.As part of the effort, I provided testimony to the Japanese Congress (Diet) and joined an all day Global Health Forum organized by the Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI), a leading Japanese think...

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Food Allergic? Be Our Guest.

Congratulations to Disney for being given the FAAN (Food Allergy and Anyphalaxis Network)Corporate Leadership Award. Disney was honored for "its commitment to food allergy awareness, education and management." Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts accepted the award saying, "Our parks in the U.S. alone accommodated well over 400,000 special dietary requests from guests last year." Fantastic! No wonder Disney feels like "the most magical place on earth". They really try to make everyone feel special; like an honored guest.I hope to see other resorts, parks and restaurants rise to the challenge as well. Everyone should...

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Medical transcription outsourcing: Support services that help enhance performance

In the current scenario the healthcare industry is facing numerous challenges, which has tested the ability of this sector to provide quality services while still remaining profitable. There has been a burgeoning need for healthcare services given the aging population and increasingly stressful lifestyles. The healthcare sector also faces challenges like eroding profit margins and escalating regulatory norms. In such an increasingly challenging environment it has become imperative for healthcare facilities to concentrate maximum time, capital and resources on their core business while outsourcing their non-core activities.Medical transcription, the process of creating patient medical records from the dictation provided by healthcare professionals of the patient encounter is one such activity....

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