Have you ever given a thought about taking Medical transcription as a career option? Here are the reasons why you should start thinking! You might wonder who is a medical transcriptionist. To keep it simple, they are the one who makes doctor looks good on paper! A medical transcriptionist is the one who converts voice recorded reports as dictated by the physicians into text format. Medical transcription  jobs are booming than ever right now, with huge amount of opportunities for skilled, focused and hardworking individuals.  Despite global economic downtrend, the Medical Transcription (MT) industry is looking for a further growth suggested by a report of the NASSCOM stating that recession has not hit the healthcare industry. It also states that MT industry is here to stay. India remained a preferred offshore destination primarily due to availability of manpower and industry maturity. Medical transcription companies in Mysore observe that the demand for medical transc...

   If we ask you to rate your productivity on a scale of 1-10, how would you rate yourself? Where ever you are on the rating scale, the good news is, there are always opportunities to increase your level of output. For this, one must be very passionate and willing to experiment with different techniques.     Don’t work hard, work smart! Almost all of us must have heard this message coming from superiors, bosses or may be a friend or a family member… But what exactly is smart work? The concept is to kill inefficiency, do things in a quicker and effective way, add intelligence and intuitiveness to tasks, and avoid silly errors. This is the age of smart work not hard wok – Let’s look at a few tips on increasing your productivity, If they work, keep them; the ones that don’t, put them aside. One cut doesn’t fit all, you see! Plan your tomorrow tonight: A quick 5 min plan for the next day always comes handy, Just imagine waking up wit...

Medical transcription is one of the fastest growing trends, there is always consistency in this industry, as long there is human survival this industry will be always in demand. As the number of patients are increasing, doctors can’t do whole process of collecting their details and then transcribing them to text documents isn't possible for them to do by themselves. So, they depend on Medical Transcriptionists (MT) for making of medical reports, this leads to number of medical transcription jobs in Health Care industry. An overview of Medical Transcription: Where do Medical Transcriptionists work? MTs work for Hospitals, Health Care Centers or for Insurance companies. You can even choose to work from home as a freelancer, but its better not to consider work from home option at the start of your career. After getting experience you can opt for it, if you want to.                   ...

 Sometimes err… most of the times, transcribing can be tricky.  As you need to complete the task before the end of the shift or before deadlines, unintentionally you will end up committing errors that are hilarious!!  The doctors dictate something, and due to disturbance they are heard as something else and transcribed as the same. Here are few such funny outcomes of unintentional errors: 1. Dictated as: Issues that need to be discussed Transcribed as: Issues that made to be disgust 2. Dictated as: Strong scents such as perfumes, scented candles Transcribed as: Strong sense such as perfumes, scented candles 3. Dictated as: On review of systems today, they brought up multiple issues Transcribed as: On review of systems today, they bought up multiple issues 4. Dictated as: She has five sisters, one of whom is deceased Transcribed as: She has five sisters, one of whom is deceived 5. Dictated as: Patient is encouraged to ...

Medical Transcription industry is growing day by day and there is large scope to get your things done easily because of those organizations which are providing these transcription services at an affordable price and in an efficient manner. One can rely on these organizations for capable professionals and timely execution of the work. If you even want to work on these services within the organization you need to start a department and recruit all the employees and may be you can’t get that efficiency. So, it would be a better option to outsource these tasks rather than doing within the organization. Reasons to outsource: Reduced capital: When you outsource medicaltranscription services to other organizations eventually you don’t need to employ people for transcribing and this will save your cost and also you don’t need to invest on things needed for transcribing like dictation system or software’s to enter data or on employees who transcribe this pre recorded data. ...

Medical coding is a career which will be always in demand in the Health care industry, if you are a graduate in Pharmacy and don’t want to make a career as pharmacist then medical coding can be considered as a good choice. As the number of patients are increasing their data need to be transcript in form of codes to avoid confusion and need to make it understand internationally so the data provided by patients related to their diseases and prescription everything is transcribed into codes and stored for the use of third parties or insurance companies which will use these codes and calculate the amount of claim that hospital should receive.                                                 Below are few reasons that you should consider a career ...