Healthcare Professional Report Requirements
Healthcare professionals are required to give reports on a patient’s progress as it relates to the treatment they have received, current status as a patient and how they are responding to their treatment. This is a lot of data. In order to report all of this data many healthcare professionals have responded to the mammoth undertaking of record keeping by utilizing a medical transcription service. This requires either an automated speech recognition system or a manual medical transcription service and a voice recording device that can be easily transported from consultation room to office. A manual medical transcription service is often more reliable and better in terms of saving time – however, with the advancements in the technology that can transcribe vocal output into an electronic text format this may change sooner than we think.
It is important the all aspects of how the patient’s illness is affecting the patient are recorded. It is also important that all avenues of treatment that have been utilized are also recorded in an effort to reduce the need to retry treatments that may or may not have been successful. In the event the treatment has been medication, it is important that duplicate medication is not issued to the patient in order to reduce the risk of poisoning or doing unnecessary damage to the patient. Medical transcription records can help verify whether or not the patient has been subjected to any form of treatment that has been successful or otherwise.
Medical transcription helps healthcare professionals remain up to date on the patient’s status. Because of the overwhelming volume of information required in order to record how the patient is treated (both in terms of methods to ensure the patient recovers and how they have reacted and subsequently been handled) may be difficult to sift through otherwise.
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