Nutritional Analysis
Nutrition and dietetics is a relatively young profession. The task of planning and preparing family meals was traditionally assigned to the women of the household, although the relationship between nutrition, a balanced diet and the health and well–being of the family was not, for a long time, fully understood.
As awareness grew, food planning assumed greater importance, not only within the factories and public eating places began to apply this knowledge when catering for their wards, employees and customers. In the late nineteenth century, hospital workers were employed to teach patients how to prepare food, thus bringing a new profession into existence.
Menu Nutritional Analysis
There are two BIG reasons to have your menus analyzed for nutritional content:
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USDA requires you to provide nutritionally compliant menus every week, all school year to all scholars. |
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Media coverage and a national focus on childhood obesity and diabetes. Fingers are pointing at schools as contributors to this outbreak. |
Menu Planning
Your menu is at the center of your food service operation. It determines your labor needs, equipment needs, and best approach to procurement. You want your menu to stimulate participation and generate revenue. You want your menu to be appealing and cost-conscious.
To get all the above you need a good menu planning and analysis application or service that helps your menus designed or audited as per USDA or other governmental bodies' standards.
TekPlant offers its Dietitians trained in Designing and Analysis applications as Nutrikids to offer the above services onshore and offshore. The presence of trained dietitians offshore increases the productivty of the process and reduces the cost incurred towards the same.
Medical Billing and Coding Services
With the help of Certified Coders and billers who possess extensive experience on handling industries leading clearinghouse services, Callers who can follow up Insurance submissions and Patients Co-pay calls, Secured access to a Web-based or in-practice billing application, our billing department alleviates the worries of collection and ensures high collection ratio in shorter possible time cycle. Intuitive reporting systems keeps the practice heads informed on the status.
Upon signing with TekPlant, its transition team visits the practice to study the process that is currently being followed, and suggests advancements in the process to enable remote coding and billing service. It is ensured that the transition is absolutely smooth and does not hinder the regular work-flow in any way.
If required EOBs, or Routing slips are scanned or faxed to the Coding team and the codes mentioned are also verified with the transcribed reports to modify the ICD codes as required.
Patient demography is verified by the billing team with the remote access to the Practice management system or if a web-based PMS is used, the demography is verified without much hassle. Upon complete verification by the Coding and Billing team, the bills are presented to the Insurers using the appropriate clearing house application, decided in-concurrence with the Clinic/Hospital.
Regular productivity and activity reports help monitor the collection scenario and Callers with Nice and Polite English accents follow up with Insurance companies and Co-Pay patients for the dues.
Management information reports are provided to the Physician/Clinic/Hospital in a set periodic interval, that briefs the overall Billing and Collection scenarios.
Medical Transcription Services
TekPlant also offers Transcription Help to Private Physicians, Clinics and Transcription Vendors to help them keep up with documentation requirements as deemed by Law. TekPlant helps Physicians and Clinics provide superior patient care by increasing the productivity of the transcription cycle, and delivery of Patient reports. This is achieved by having the transcription production facility across the globe, using the timezone benefits and adopting to upcoming technologies as guided Speech recognition.
TekPlant primarily appeals to the smaller Clinics and Physician groups by eliminating the need to have dedicated Staff for transcription, Separate Servers or Infrastructure to store Voice files and transcribed reports or IT personnel to maintain the same.
TekPlant with its hosted Transcription Life-cycle management application can make the complete process from the Dictation to Work-allocation to Transcription to On-line Editing/reviewing to Electronic Signing to Distribution of reports by FAX/Email in a subscription based methodolgy.
As TekPlant uses Latest technologies and centralized and cost effective workforce, on a defined process driven work culture, there is a good cost saving in the entire process. TekPlant shares this benefit with its clients by offering 30-40% reduction from their existing transcription cost.
TekPlant accepts Medical dictations in various formats such as .dss, .wav, .dvf etc from Digital Recorders and from Dial-in Telephone dictations. Dictations from Digital recorders are generally of better quality audio to decipher and which results in better quality of Medical transcription. When physicians use Phone-in dictations, they can continue to use their provider and give access to the Phone-in server from where we can download the dictations for Medical transcription services. Otherwise they can opt to use our Phone-in service to deliver the dictations.
Pre-requisites to start and use our Medical Transcription Services
Before we start offering you our Medical transcription help, we might need the following to be given from your side. This helps us to jump start on the quality of delivery from the day one.
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List of Physicians names and Clinic or practice names with Addresses that you might refer often in your dictations. |
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Normal paragraphs used in a dictation. If you do so |
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Sample reports - this could be copy of earlier reports that were dictated by you and typed by somebody else |
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Report Templates if any - We could extract |
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Font size |
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Margins |
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Line spaces between heading and sub-heading |
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Capitalization of headings |
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CC Doctor Specifications |
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Header and Footer information |
We could also extract this information from the sample reports if given to us
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Report output format - Microsoft word / Core word-perfect / Adobe PDF |
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Sample Dictations - If you enable us with a few old dictations we will be able to train our staff beforehand on the accent and dialogue delivery. This results in time saving from the day one. |
We also sign the following documents to ensure compliance with standards
1.HIPAA Vendor Agreement for Transcription Services
2.Confidentiality and Non-compete agreements as applicable
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