"Healthcare enterprises rely on the documentation creation community to provide useable, relevant, and accurate patient care data in a timely manner to enable and direct ongoing clinical decision-making," states Peter Preziosi, PhD, CAE, AHDI/MTIA chief executive officer. However, serious shortage of qualified medical transcriptionists and few “in the pipeline” to replace this aging workforce, create huge challenges for the medical offices.

To overcome this critical problem, eTransMed, a local Omaha company, fills a major gap in providing experienced transcription solutions for the healthcare delivery chain.

"The medical transcriptionist is the most frequently forgotten part of the healthcare documentation production chain," claims Gary David, PhD, associate professor of sociology at Bentley College.

Quality healthcare delivery depends on skills of the medical professionals, accurate medical records, including quality transcription services. If there is no consistency in accuracy, timeliness and quality output of medical transcriptionists, a gap in the document production process occurs, thereby creating a “domino effect” at a number of levels, including patient safety, record management and the financial bottom line.

“eTransMed offers transcription service solutions to a profession suffering from a serious labor shortage. Healthcare facilities struggle daily with trying to keep up with turnaround times, HIPAA regulations, massive dictation workloads and rapidly-shifting technical challenges”, says Katie Francis, eTransMed’s Executive Marketing Associate.

The company’s experienced transcriptionists, both in the US and overseas, assist and support clients through HIPAA-compliant, secure networks and a web-based system with integrated voice, text and data.

The company provides transcription solutions for all medical offices - those using the EMR system, as well as those using manual systems. It provides seamless transcription solutions for improving processes and reducing medical errors and costs by efficiently integrating the health information management community, technology vendors, and other stakeholder groups to provide accurate and economic transcription services.

In addition to the fast, reliable and accurate solutions for its clients, eTransMed offers additional unique services such as “on-the-fly” editing, patient data base, sorting options, long-term data storage, and electronic signature at no additional costs. “The company provides transcription services to hundreds of physicians and adapts to any existing transcription and record keeping platforms”, says Ms Francis. “Our seamless solutions provide a physician’s office with economic transcription services that allow the completed transcription to be automatically uploaded to the patient’s folder at the physician’s office”.

Ms. Francis says that “eTransMed’s resources provide economic transcription solutions for healthcare professionals resulting, in many cases, to a 30% to 40% savings”. The company’s staff has a broad, practical, in-depth knowledge and experience of how physicians and health facilities work. “This knowledge, along with cost benefits, live, responsive and friendly customer service, allows us to deliver a service and product that is unparalleled in the industry”.

Anna Nichols, Medical Records and Billing Manager at Outpatient Surgical Specialties Center in Omaha reports that “Having a quick turn-around on pre-op and surgery reports is vital to our patient care and to our doctor’s efficiency. eTransMed consistently provides us with accurate and professional-looking documents by 7AM on the morning following dictation.”, while Michele Farris, Executive Administrative Assistant to Dr. Raikar, Midwest Anesthesia in Fremont says that “eTransMed employees are readily available to ensure that any problem, no matter how small, gets handled quickly and cheerfully.”

More information can be obtained from Tammy Carmichael at 402-614-0217, Tammy@eTransMed.com.