Internal benchmarking paves way for medical transcription improvements.
Accurate, detailed data collection is essential to improving productivity in medical transcription departments. Transcription staff are best positioned to identify nonvalue-added duties and processes and should be involved in improvement planning. Even a small percentage of improvement in productivity can translate into huge dollar and time savings.
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