CAREER IN MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION

Medical transcription is the most fast growing company in India and all over the world. Though it totally involves the use of computer that is IT. Medical transcription is the process of producing reports from the information or details provided by the doctor about the patient who visits the clinic. Virtually every time a patient visits a doctor even just for a regular check-up or admitted to a hospital for any medical reason, a report is generated for that patient.

     It means hundreds and thousands of such reports are generated every day. Doctors have short of time to maintain these records. But, however these medical history of the patient is very important, as it may use in the future. Since doctors don't have time to maintain all these records they just record their findings into the computer with voice recognition technology. These recorded messages are sent to the medical transcription companies through satellite. These companies employ people who hear these recorded messages and process the data from dictated form to the written form to be produced as a hard copy or to be sent to the computer for the storage. All this transformation process i.e. transformation of voice to written data is done by Medical Trancriptionist.

      A good medical trancriptionist must have good command over English Language, must have ability to understand American way of speech and accent, he should be familiar with medical terminology and grammar and last is good typing speed. The medical transcription profession requires a lot of accuracy in terms of listening to and understanding the dictation being given in American way of speech, and then typing it with a correct grammar and spellings. One needs to keep updated on the medical technology.

      Medical records for transcription are mainly sourced from the USA. It can be outsourced for transcription not only by the doctor but also by the surgeons, nurses, and pharmacists. There are two stages in medical trancriptionist. Firstly he has to do the actual processing, proofreading and editing follow this. The medical transcription companies employ proofreaders and editors who perform the following jobs like visual proofreading, grammar check, spelling check.

      A medical transcription company is consisting of medical trancriptionist, proofreader, editors and manager. A medical transcriptonist can earn around 7000-8000