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 ...

The information that’s afloat about medical transcription career is bizarre! While some may be genuine misconceptions, most of them come from people who have no idea about the in’s and out’s, which is what makes it a little hilarious! Medical transcription (MT) is a very challenging field. Once you get trained you work from anywhere you can get an Internet connection. There are several benefits such as non-traditional hours, part-time or full-time options, as an employee or as self-employed independent contractor. MT field is has a lot going in its favor! 1.     Medical transcriptionists can work and take care of the kids at the same time If you’re imagining yourself typing at the keyboard while your little ones play around, pat yourself and wake up! There’s no way you can transcribe medical reports and take care of children at the same time. Transcribing needs utmost concentration and focused attention, both of which cannot go hand in hand looking aft...

Everything from music to Facebook, the secret to productivity is in the very things we are asked to avoid!Check out these tips on increasing productivity, the crazy way… 1. Listen to music, dude! If you have a headset on, maybe it won’t go down well with the boss. But then, according to a study at the University of Windsor, Canada, listening to music during work helps people finish their work faster and with a better quality than those who don’t. But if your boss gets to see your head banging before he sees the great work you have accomplished, don’t blame it on us if he fires you! 2. Facebook your way to glory… Mindless tasks such as checking out those nice red pop ups on that blue Facebook ribbon could trick your brain into thinking that it has done something worthwhile. Simply put, it gives you a brain boost. Moreover, a study by Evolvon data from Fortune 500 companies showed a correlation between output per employee and usage of social networks. According to the s...