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3 reasons why medical transcription services are growing in Australia.

by Jayden Smith Blogger

The world over the need for accurate, fast and affordable medical transcription is growing. With rising automation in the healthcare industry, all medical services require transcription services of some sort – from solo practices to large hospitals to imaging centers – at every step healthcare professionals need to ensure that patient records are 100% accurate and up-to-date.

This growing demand for reliable medical transcription services is being met by large third-party transcription companies who provide end-to-end services with minimum hassle to the healthcare industry.

On par with global trends, medical transcription services in Australia are seeing increasing popularity as well. Let’s look at some reasons that are driving this uptick in demand –

1.     Ageing Population

The percentage of elderlies is steadily increasing in Australia - In 2017, 3.8 million Australians were aged 65 and above, this forms around 15% of the total population. By 2057, this number will rise to 8.8 million and will comprise 22% of the population

 

With an older population, comes growing healthcare needs and all these require medical transcription companies in Australia to ensure that patient records will be accurate and easily accessible over the long term.

2.     Digitization of the healthcare system

With cloud computing and massive expansion of the Internet, the healthcare sector is moving towards large-scale digitization. The Australian government is also making a concentrated effort to store medical records online.

As accuracy and fast turnaround times are essential for this online move to succeed, outsourcing to external medical transcription services in Australia have become the norm.

3.     Technological advancements in Healthcare

The Australian healthcare industry is an early adopter of new medical technologies and tools such as analytics is being used more and more to ensure better healthcare services across the country.

From disease prevention to providing timely response to remote patients, digital records are the foundation on which these innovative healthcare tools can be built.

Medical transcription services have been used in Australia for years now, but the role of a transcriptionist is evolving and changing as new technologies are introduced into the system. While earlier the work mostly involved transcribing audio recordings into medically accurate text, with the introduction of voice recognition software that turns audio to text automatically, the role of medical transcription services has become more specialized – the modern day transcriptionist is now specifically trained to focus on accuracy and along with their transcription duties is taking on the role of an editor. 


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About Jayden Smith Freshman   Blogger

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