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Advantages of outsourcing the medical transcription

These are some of the advantages by outsourcing the medical transcription to a certified company which can turn out to be beneficial for your medical services: 1. Just pay for the service. By outsourcing to us, you can access the same number of transcriptionists as it takes to take care of business and just pay by the time or line. 2. Get high quality work The advantage of outsourcing nearly anything is that you are getting to skill that is specific to what you require – and you're getting to it at a small amount of the expense you'd face with a full time representative. The medical Transcription requires a considerable measure of experience. With outsourcing, you access our proficient staff that has as of now been verified as professional transcriptionists. You can also pick up their involvement with a small amount of the expense. 3. Save Money with outsourcing By paying just for the administrations you require, you set aside to 30% over the expense o

Protected health information

The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects most individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or medium, whether electronic, on paper, or oral. According to this rule protected health information is information , including demographic information, which relates to: the individual’s past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to the individual, or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual, and that identifies the individual or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe can be used to identify the individual. For example, a medical record, laboratory report, or hospital bill would be PHI because each document would contain a patient’s name and/or other identifying information associated with the health data content.

Few common HIPAA violations we should aware.

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Imagine what it would be like if there were no HIPAA violations. Everyone would be respectful, and trustworthy. Employees would be honest. Patients wouldn’t withhold important information from medical staff due to mistrust. Unfortunately, this is not the case. HIPAA violations are very common , and the laws are violated every day. Gossiping in itself isn’t a HIPAA violation. However, chatting loudly about a patient and their situation in front of the nurses’ station where everyone can hear, is a violation. Gossiping about patients outside of the work environment to friends or family is also a violation. People are naturally curious. As employees, we have access to patient information, even information we don’t necessarily need to know to do our jobs. Naturally, when a patient is famous or is well-known on the news, we want to know all the inside information. Once the patient’s record or chart is accessed unlawfully, it’s a HIPAA violation. This seems to be a very common occurrence.