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Medical transcription has been an integral part of healthcare services by faithfully creating patient records transcribing the audio records of the patient- healthcare professional encounter into text format. It is a skill that requires the right blend of trained skilful personnel, the right process and advanced technology. Outsourcing this process enables the healthcare facility to leverage on the service provider's resources to avail efficient and economical services without actually investing in people, processes and technology. However while outsourcing it is important for healthcare facilities to source a transcription vendor who can provide trustworthy services. Evaluating trustworthy services: Medical transcription is the process of creating patient records and patient records play an important part in operational and commercial aspects of the healthcare facility. To ensure trustworthy services, the vendor needs to be evaluated on the following: Quality: The accuracy of the data captured in patient records needs to be as high as possible, as patient data is valuable in many aspects of healthcare, statutory requirements, coding & billing and as evidence in case of litigation. To evaluate the ability of the service provider to provide quality transcription it is important to focus on the training methods used by the service provider to train transcriptionists and the process used for ensuring quality. Speed: Apart from the accuracy of the data it is important that data is available on time. This not only helps in providing quality care to patients but also accelerates the receivables cycle helping to improve the cash flow. To evaluate the trustworthiness of the vendor in meeting turnaround time, healthcare facilities need to evaluate the team, the technology and the past experience of the service provider in providing similar services. Security: Maintaining the confidentiality of the information provided by the patient is the basis of the patient- healthcare professional relationship. Maintaining the security of information is both a legal and moral obligation. While outsourcing medical transcription it is important to evaluate the trustworthiness of the service provider by checking on the following: · Measures taken to protect technology · Measures taken to protect processes · Whether work is executed by the service provider or through sub-contractors Pricing: One of the main benefit of outsourcing is that of enormous cost saving. To ensure cost saving it is important to evaluate the quotation provided by the vendor. It is important to understand the components of cost and the billing methodology to be assured that a trustworthy billing method, which meets the criteria of being measurable, verifiable, definable, consistent, fair and honest, has been used Technology: Availing these services is a continuous process and one of the main components ensuring this is the technology used by the service provider. The technology needs to be robust, secure and provide multiple benefits while still being easy to use to be trustworthy.