TROTTS and Medical Transcription Turnaround Time

It is indeed a small Global world today. The Internet and globalization has made it possible to get back office work done half way round the globe as if it were being done in the next room. Medical transcription is one BPO service that is greatly appreciated because it involves critical medical data and involves medical billing, insurance claim and reimbursement. Hence all vendors have known the importance for a minimal TAT (Turn Around Time). Offshoring of work to Asian locations with about 12 hour time difference is a very naturally convenient feather in the Asian service provider's cap, especially for bigger and regular hospital transcription projects.

Different Turnaround times from 72 hrs to 24hrs to 12 hrs to a few hours to almost realtime transcription have been provided by the domestically outsourced agents as well as from these offshore locations using the latest state of art web technologies. Today you also have voice recognition software being used that instantly displays the "text form on screen" though of course it has to be humanly edited by the transcription professional or physician. However, faster need not necessarily always be better. Everything needs a standard and so does the transcription outsourcing industry. That is why TROTTS is here!

What is TROTTS? Well it stands for Transcribed Report Optimal Turnaround Time Standards (TROTTS). Last September the The AHIMA-MTIA Task Force on Transcribed Report Optimal Turnaround Time Standards (TROTTS) invited all transcription managers to participate in an industry survey. The TROTTS task force was given the responsibility to jointly developing recommended standards for transcribed report turnaround times on selected report types.

So what are the new standards of MT TATs, I mean TROTTS? If anxious, be there for the 19th Annual Conference of the Medical Transcription Industry to be held at Long Beach CA from April 23-26, 2008. Here is a link to it. http://www.mtia.com/Conference.cfm "The New Standards: TROTTS" is a topic on the agenda and will be presented by the MT Industry leader Sean Carroll. Sean Carroll has got the Smithsonian Computer World Award for technology innovation in healthcare for automated speech recognition applications and has been the elected president of the medical transcription's international trade association many times.

Here is the schedule of events for the conference we have been waiting for. http://www.mtia.com/downloads/MTIA%202008%20Schedule%20at%20A%20Glance.pdf

OSI (Outsource Strategies International) is a US based BPO pioneer and medical transcription company that offers professional domestic and offshore medical coding and medical transcription services.