title: Internal benchmarking paves way for medical transcription improvements.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D004465:Economic Competition; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D015443:Word Processing / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D000078329:Workforce