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Medical transcription outsourcing USA

2008-08-06T06:40:00.003-07:00

Medical Transcription Service - US States

iSource provides accurate, steady, reliable and secure Adolescent medicines transcription to doctors, physicians, laboratories, hospitals, clinics and all medical related personnel and health sectors.

iSource – client focused medical transcription company in US, also providing medical transcription service outsourcing using toll free medical dictations, computer dictations, digital recorder dictations with emphasis on providing quality medical transcription as a company that does outsourcing that is HIPPA compliant, 128 bit encrypted outsourcing service. As a professional healthcare services company, we understand our client’s requirements and provide quality service at a rapid turnaround time and at unbelievable low rates at just 40% of the local US rates.

A specific team caters transcription to specific country in order to provide the high quality based transcription service and to satisfy the client’s requirements. We provide medical transcription services to individual doctors, practices, hospitals throughout the United States and internationally.

List of some of the states which Medical Transcriptions Service is handling efficiently are:

Medical transcription outsourcing USA

2008-08-06T06:40:00.001-07:00

Medical Transcription Service - US States

List of some of the states which Medical Transcriptions Service is handling efficiently are:

OUTSOURCING SUCCESS STORIES

2008-04-08T04:34:00.000-07:00

CASE STUDY

A PSYCHIATRY CLINIC'S PREDICAMENT
a psychiatry clinic in Texas was having a very hard time documenting medical reports and records. Most of the reports were handwritten with the legibility of the reports such that even the physicians' own secretaries could not decipher them. Besides the wastage of time on handwritten reports and the expense of photocopying them for the patients and the referring physicians, the clinic was facing problems with delivering these reports on time.

The backlog of reports to be delivered was piling up and was reaching alarming
proportions. Auditing of the records was proving to be a huge problem. The clinic
administration desired streamlining and moving towards a paperless office to address
HIPAA regulations and improve operational efficiency. Also, the stakeholders (patients, referring physicians, government agencies, and billing office) wanted to implement an electronic medical records system, and this led them to reevaluate their existing operational processes.

Cost factor: Having the records transcribed locally by medical transcriptionists was an expensive affair as the average rate charged by American medical transcriptionists was about $15 an hour. Recruiting in-house transcription staff was a Herculean task as it involved a lot of formalities and overheads besides huge cost implications. It worked out to about 40 cents per line to get it transcribed using in-house staff.

ESL Physician dictation: As some of the physicians were ESL (English second language) dictators, most American medical transcriptionists were not too keen to take on these jobs. This was when the clinic decided to outsource the work to India where the same job could be done at about $5 an hour.

OUR DIAGNOSIS
After contacting and reviewing many vendors, this clinic approached Medicaltranscriptionsservice and requested our expertise to streamline their existing infrastructure. Medicaltranscriptionsservice deputed two of its Outsourcing Consultants to do a comprehensive existing system analysis
as follows:

- Time-to-chart metrics
- Critical analysis of the need for creating and maintaining electronic patient records
- Need for web-based document management system
- Cost benefit analysis of implementing electronic patient records

Our consultants identified many critical areas and their repercussions. Specifically,
time-to-chart issues lead to cascading effects onto the entire chain of healthcare,
patient care, provider accounts receivable management, thereby leading to poor business performance of the physicians' practice. Psychiatry specific exclusive transcription team: Our consultants recommended that this job be done by an exclusive team of medical transcriptionists who were well versed with
psychiatry and this job was entrusted to them.

THE SOLUTION? Our Prescription

we offered them two alternatives. Firstly, they could use our toll-free dial-in
dictation system and start dictating straightaway either via a cell phone/mobile phone or through any landline phone connection. Our technical staff could have this up and running within half an hour of receiving an E-mail request from the client.
Secondly, they could opt to utilize a brand new digital Dictaphone that we would provide to them free of cost. Our representatives showed them how they could log into our secure File Transfer Protocol server and upload their dictations, and how this whole process could be automated with the use of software that would also be provided by us free of cost.

The physicians were also told about our exclusive online physician portal which could be accessed by them wherever they were, using their PDA/Blackberry. Also, they could view, edit (if necessary), and E-sign the transcripts. They could also fax or E-mail the transcripts to their patients or the insurance companies. After satisfying all their requirements by a one-week free trial of dictation by various doctors, the clinic was delighted to entrust us with the task of handling the entire transcription process starting with capturing the dictation, transcribing the reports, editing them, three-level quality control checks, and delivery of the final error-free transcription reports.

They realized that outsourcing improves time-to-chart (TTC) metrics, that their patients receive treatment sooner, that insurance companies can be billed sooner, and that they themselves receive payment sooner. Moreover, electronic medical record management facilitates easier audit of healthcare facilities which is one of the US government's objectives.

CLIENT FEEDBACK
Medicaltranscriptionsservice team has done a wonderful job. The transition process to electronic patient records was smooth. We are relieved and delighted that it cost much lesser than we feared?

--Office Manager xxxx Psychiatry, Houston, Texas.

MORAL OF THE STORY
Staying competitive is the most critical aspect in today’s business world. Harnessing
technology and global sourcing of talent is the mantra of success--exactly what we
achieved with the cooperation and initiation of this xxx Psychiatry Houston Texas client.

With nil-to-minimal investment, a paperless office can be established in a healthcare
facility and HIPAA compliance ensured. A transition from a stage where medical reports are handwritten to a stage where processes are done electronically can be done smoothly and without any hassles when there is a dedicated team working on it. Outsourcing makes good business sense especially if profitability is taken into account since all businesses are primarily run with the motto of staying competitive and profitable.

Thomas L. Friedman said that in this twenty-first century, the world is flat. Nowhere is this truer than in the field of medical records transcription where a physician can
dictate a report at midnight in the USA, have it transcribed and edited in India an hour or so later, uploaded to his office immediately, and find the report ready for him to sign before he leaves for the day.

Medical transcriptions service TAT

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TAT at Medical transcriptions service:

TAT is, the time between the dictation notes and returns back the dictation notes as transcribed files by a medical transcription company. The accuracy of our transcription depends on the quality of the client’s audio and the clients should initiate the turnaround time. When the transcription companies receive the dictated notes from the clients and after that only the TAT will be calculated. Different specialties have different TAT, that depending upon the needs of the file or type or dictators.

At MTS we are providing 99% accurate transcription reports within correct TAT. We also are offering rush turnaround time of 3-5 Business hours for any kind of medical specialty dictations. But at the same time higher fees are charged for the express TAT. We are dedicated to offer timely, accurate medical transcription services with guaranteed turn-around times. Medical transcriptions service are quality certified medical transcription service providers offering three levels of quality checking for your all transcribed files to keep our correct high quality .

MTS offers accurate transcripts with correct TAT at an affordable rate. This one is three times cheaper than other local US rates, so from us you can save most of the in-house or locally outsourced service rates. We are having very speed internet connection to transmit your files through the secure online. For more details about our cost estimates click the linkà Price Estimates Form

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Medical transcription Inquiry

2008-03-28T01:51:00.000-07:00

Medical Transcription Inquiry Form

Cardiology Transcription services

2008-03-27T22:00:00.000-07:00

Cardiology Transcription service:

MTS is the foremost Medical transcription service provider for cardiology transcription services in USA. Headquartered at California and serving their service through India. We provide our best services with quick TAT, low cost-effectives and high-quality. Staffs are well known about cardiology and having knowledge about cardiology medical terms at MTS. They will satisfy all your expectations and many of our clients satisfied by out way of service.

Cardiology is the branch of internal medicine dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. Some of cardiological troubles require the patient to take long-term treatment procedure. So the need of cardiology transcription becomes much important for the physicians to continue accurate medical records of each and every patient. In medical transcription industry, MTS has been concentrating on medical transcription services with accurate, quality and quick turn around times. From our client’s testimonials about our cardiology transcription service, we can say that we are one of the greatest cardiology transcription service providers in CA.

We follow the HIPAA rules and regulations while transcribing. MTS promise you that we keep your patient’s histories and health information securely. Our Medical transcription services available for single physicians, hospitals, clinics and some heath care providers. We work as a part of you, our transcription team already proved this with existing clients.

MTS have a separate team for Cardiology transcription services and also for all other medical services like Dermatology, Oncology, Anesthesiology and Radiology. We serve 30 types of medical services including the above three to the entire USA. We offer you an opportunity to know about our quality and accuracy of transcription services using our free trial offer.

Any time you can contact us through our Toll Free number: 1-877-323-4707.
MTS - a 24/7/365 company that serves you the perfect accurate transcription.

Medical transcription outsourcing services in US States

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Louisiana:

The Medical transcription companies transcribe the medical reports that dictated by the physicians. Medical transcriptions service use updated equipments while transcribing the physician’s dictations. Medical transcriptions service providing may types of medical services, such as radiology, Dermatology, Surgery, Anesthesiology and Endocrinology. MTS gives online resources and using special digital voice recorders to record the dictations sent from the physicians.

MTS has the California, USA as the head quarters and managing the services through India. Our most of staffs from India are having talented knowledge in all the medical terms. MTS has serving its successful services to hospitals, clinics and health care centers in Louisiana. There are many hospitals and clinics outsourcing their dictations to MTS. They are fully satisfied with our services. Medical transcriptions services providing their hopeful medical transcription services to some of the Universities located in USA.

The Louisiana cities like Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport and Lafayette are getting much more benefits through outsourcing their projects to MTS. We use very fast internet services to send you the transcribed files through electronically and also you can upload your files by the same way. Our Medical transcription team having touch with Louisiana clients on every week ends to know the status of their files. This will help you to know how we managing you and your projects.

Oklahoma:

Medical transcriptions service has been offering perfect and low cost for your dictated notes. Medical Transcriptions service providing their wonderful service to the state Oklahoma and nation wide, Particularly for the Oklahoma cities like Jackson, Beaver, Pontotoc and Bryan . We serve entire continuous solutions for your files. Naturally MTS is a 24/7/365 company gives you the correct, absolute transcription services and utilizing the most recent transcription technologies for give you the proper TAT. We offer Olympus DS-4000 voice recorder for our most valuable clients. While transcribing the files all of our transcriptionists following the HIPAA regulations.

Costs are very cheaper than other local US rates.
Following the correct TAT.
Using all efficient transcription techniques

MTS transcribes all type of specialties including oncology, pediatrics, Neurology, Radiology, Family Practice, patient notes , Dermatology, surgery. MTS has providing their services to Hospitals, Clinics, group practices and single physicians in the state Oklahoma.

MTS has the ability to handle any type of transcriptions service, our experienced staffs makes your works easier to manage and get back your transcribed documents through electronically or via FTP.

Dermatology Transcription

2008-02-28T01:44:00.000-08:00

Dermatology specialists:
Medicaltranscriptionsservice is a best medical transcription service company, having their head quarters at United States, managing several types of medical transcription services. In MedicalTranscriptionsService, we are handling dermatology transcription services and organizing the specific needs for dermatology care production. MedicalTranscriptionsService professionally transcribe medical reports keeping patient’s physicals and personal histories, description, operative reports and discharge instructions. Clinics, hospitals, physicians, group practices, mtsos healthcare management services are available in Medicaltranscriptionsservice
Using high end technology, we offer the dermatology advantages to our clients:
In Medicaltranscriptionsservice we are transcribing the files with various levels and those levels will make it to impress you. There are many necessities to do these expressed in how you want us to be like in a way to show your unique personality and also in Dermatology medical transcription we are doing with all the terminologies that means all of our transcripts are well known the study of terms and their use. Many of our clients are satisfied with our both cost effectives and as well as the quality that we prove by our own way of transcription service. Medicaltranscriptionsservice doing the whole thing by the practiced way that is needed to be suitable for our clients.
We can make specially the turnaround time as per as you needed. Medicaltranscriptionsservice assure 24/7 methodological support for your files. Medicaltranscriptionsservice‘s cost is put accomplish a different kind of aspects such as quantity, turnaround time, specialty requirement, dictation types and managing the documents and also follows the guidelines like formats given by the clients. We support all types of formats including following DSS, CASSETTE, DIGITAL VIDEO, MP3, MP4, WAV, WMA and etc.For more information about our Medical transcription services, at this instant get services via toll free number 1-877-323-4707.

Health care Medical Management: services

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Medical Management:
MedicalTranscriptionsservice has wide-ranging resource and index for medical management services, medical practice management, medical practice management system and medical document management companies seeking services for transcription or medical management companies to manage their transcription services confidentially, health care (including all type services) and other medical managements like medical clinic management, emergency medical management, and medical practice management system.
Medicaltranscriptionsservice managing and suggesting services to thousands of physicians and other health care providers all the way through North America. Medicaltranscriptionsservice presenting a many various management, every with the intention of providing our customers with a resonance source for making main put into practice management decisions. Medicaltrancriptionsservice are not only work on a project-detailed consulting resource, but also commonly proceed as continuing business advisers for our clients.
Medicaltranscriptionsservice facility among time-honored on your personal and group practices with physicians just implementing assistance. Our advance combines an in-detail accepting of the troubles and opportunities surrounded by the health care system with methodological expertise in management, managed care, health planning, patient management, physician management, medication management, medical group management and propose. Medicaltranscriptionsservice company intention is to offer specialized, wide-ranging health management resources for physicians in confidential practice and for associated health care organizations.
Medicaltranscriptionsservice gives satisfaction in providing confidential and objective optional management services free of inconsistency of interest. Medicaltranscriptionsservice are compensated firmly on a fee-only basis. We do not need excess fee or mediator fees, or other compensation from third ones.

Our CEO is available to answer questions and/or provide assistance at: shiva@isourceindia.com

Free offers Provide by US

2008-01-04T02:39:00.000-08:00

Offers- Free Olympus DS4000 Digital Voice Recorder

As a means to help uninitiated medical service providers into complete digitization of their dictation recording processes, we have introduced an offer that is unparallelled in the entire Medical Transcription service industry.

You can get a brand new Olympus DS4000 digital voice recorder for FREE, if your service volume surpasses $1000 in price value.

Features:

SLIDE SWITCH mode of operation

DSS PLAYER PRO SOFTWARE that helps you streamline and manage your dictation mechanisms.

TWO PROGRAMMABLE BUTTONS helps you customize dictation-related functions.

HANDS-FREE RECORDING via footswitch.

OVER 11 HOURS DSS AUDIO recordable by means of the included 32MB xD-Picture Card.

DUAL FUNCTION CRADLE that helps in quick charging of the Ni-MH battery pack.

Transcription services

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Medical Transcription services:
MedicalTranscriptionsService is one of USA's top medical transcription companies, serving clients across the world. We have clients in almost all the specialties. Our account management experts treat every client as unique and thoroughly analyze and chart the process migration....

We offers wide rage of audio/video to text services with great deal of value additions. Our huge list of customers spread over entire North America and Europe is the best example of strength and evidence for our long standing commitment in Transcription service.

Advantage

Competitive and Transparent Pricing

24/7 Customer Support

HIPAA, HL7 & JACHO compliance

Toll Free Dial In dictation

Support any Voice recorders and file formats

Document formats like Microsoft Word, RTF, Text, HTML

Secured Client login

12 Months document Online Archival

Dedicated Team option

Exclusive Account Manger Option

We offer wide range of transcription services.

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medical transcription outsourcing

2008-01-04T01:20:00.000-08:00

Our Medical Transcription Services
Medical Transcription is an area where our company has come to acquire enormous good-will, thanks to our extensive experience in this highly specialized field. From our humble beginnings as a US-based local transcription company, we have now become one of the largest Transcription companies in North America, providing quality outsourced medical transcription services to clients around the world. Our services include:
Digital Dictation
Physician notes transcription
Dictation

Our Cost Advantage

Medical Transcription Outsourcing

We are an outsourced medical transcription company. While our company is headquartered at the US, our transcripts are generated from our offshoring base in India. This enables us to provide our services at prices that are as low as one-third of the prices charged by local US Medical Transcription Services.

Medical transcriptions service

2008-01-04T01:04:00.001-08:00

Why Consider Outsourcing Medical Transcription Services

Medical transcriptionists has become one of the fastest growing sections of the medical field these past few years. Most medical places require the doctorÂ´s words to be put into writing for patientsÂ´ files and other documentation purposes. In todayÂ´s technological world, most hospitals require it to be in digital format. It is for this reason that the need has arisen for people to translate doctorsÂ´oral reports into digital documents. Employed secretaries usually do this job, but because of the high demand and quantity, it is becoming big as an area for outsourcing. The transcription can be done a lot more quickly when outsourcing versus in house transcriptioning. This is because the outsourcing medical transcription services devotes all of its time to this one assignment. A secretary is constantly interrupted by phone calls and patients and other duties. An outsourcing medical transcription service provides adequate services to medical facilities of all types who outsource this kind of activity. Individual home based people can become transcriptionists and you donâ€™t even have to live in close proximity. As long as you have a reliable computer and Internet connection you can do this kind of work. So basically, medical places will send you an audio file and you type it up, making sure each word is clear and spelled correctly. It is critical that it be accurate, as this will serve as the doctorâ€™s documentation. But that is all the job pretty much requires. Many studies have been done on outsourcing medical transcription services. Research has shown that the U.S. spent $2.3 billion in 2004 for medical transcription outsourcing services. That number is expected to grow to $4.2 billion in 2008. Worldwide, the U.S. Department of Labor has projected the demand for medical transcriptionists to reach $20 billion. Clearly, the demand is there. If youâ€™ve always dreamed of your own business and are willing to be trained, go to the Internet and do a search on â€œoutsourcing medical transcription service.â€ You should research several training courses and choose the best one that will suit you and your situation. You will be your own boss helping out doctorÂ´s while making pretty decent money.

Medical Transcription through Outsourcing

Medical Transcription is one of the numerous activites that have benefitted from outsourced. Medical Transcription refers to the transformation to text of prerecorded physician notes. This activity has long been carried out by transcription services allied to the hospitals. Yet, with the outburst of offshoring, there has been a reposition in the service delivery model adopted for medical transcriptioning. There has been a paradigm shift in the epicenter of medical transcription to India. With more and more companies mushrooming in India to cater outsourced Medical Transcription services to US based clients, it has spelt a windfall in savings for US based medical practices. After the initial resentment against outsourcing, it has grown to be recognised as the de facto way of doing medical transcription primarily as a means to cut costs. No wonder, outsourced transcription services are focussing on cost as their USP. Nevertheless, the tendency has been such that medical practices are prepared to spend more for qualitative service. Also, practices have become more sensible about the data safeguard issues. Patient information handling becomes a essential mark on which medical transcription services are being judged. Also, pricing clarity, quicker turnaroundtime and appropriate pricing criteria are added factors by which a medical transcription services judged. Speech Recognition software has still not become exact enough to be trusted with patient notes transcription. So for few years more, manual medical transcription with the backing of software and equipments will be the chosen mode of transcription. But it is necessary that medical transcription services shall embrace technology to improve efficiency of the transcription operation.

Expanding Your Medical Transcription Business

I’m always amazed at the number of MTs who routinely struggle to meet deadlines and are swamped in a sea of work with no end in sight. A lot of the times we seem to get used to doing things a certain way and don’t want that to change.

Although change can be difficult in business sometimes it’s necessary. Think about it if you keep struggling to keep up with your work load how will you ever expand your business or have time to dedicate to new clients?

Expanding your medical transcription business doesn’t have to be difficult. You don’t have to rent out office space or pay employment benefits. In fact it couldn’t be easier, you simply hire subcontracted MTs to work for you.

These MTs are independent MTs and will be responsible for their own taxes and business expenses. You just outsource the work to them and pay them for any completed work as agreed. You don’t even need to commit to a certain amount of work. Most MTs understand that this is how the business is run, if you have a large work load you will outsource and if the work load dies down a bit then you won’t be able to outsource.

So when is the right time to outsource?

Any time you feel you have too much work. If you’re work is taking over your life and you’d like a little free time for your family. If you’re looking to expand and grow your business, or just about any time you feel you could use a little extra help.

Try to find a reliable recommended transcriptionist to help you. Usually you pay them several cents per line less than you charge as you will need to make some money for the proofreading and overall management of the account.

A good place to find transcriptionists that are eager to learn is at your local community college or medical transcriptionist school. Often times these MTs will be willing to work for a little less in exchange for training. This is a great way to help out your fellow future MTs and reduce a bit of your work load in the process.

Medical Transcription – Practice Makes Perfect

The first time I plugged in my transcriber machine and listened to my very first medical dictation, I thought “Oh, my god, what I have I gotten myself into”. You see, I had no prior experience in the health field and I just hadn’t heard anything like this before.

To make matters worst my typing speed was abysmal. In fact, I’ll let you in on a little secret during my first typing class in my medical transcription course I had the worst typing speed out of the whole class…. An embarrassingly low 19 words per minute.

But I stuck it out and by the second month into my course my typing speed was around 40 accurate words per minute and from there on things just snowballed, within 6 months I was typing 80 accurate words per minute and my speed has increased steadily since.

Those foreign dictations didn’t sound so alien anymore and I was actually understanding the medical language and anatomy.

For someone with zero background in the medical field or medical transcription, this was a huge accomplishment.

So how did I do it? With a lot of practice, practice, practice.

Every day I used the incredible Mavis Beacon Typing Software which my teacher recommended for about 10 to 20 minutes.

I wrote down all the medical terms and different meanings on flashcards. Writing them down on flashcards not only helped me memorize them but the daily practice worked wonders as well. I would take the flashcards along with me everywhere I went and when I had a spare 5 minuets, I would just glance through them. This did wonders for my memory skills.

And of course, I had lots of hands on actual medical transcription practice during my course.

If you’re thinking of taking a medical transcription course but have been held back because of fear. I assure you, you probably won’t be worst than I was at the beginning. If you stick with it and practice you will improve.

I’m not particularly proud of my very slow typing speed back then or my little medical knowledge, but I’ve shared this story with you to encourage you and assure you that you can do this too.

So, if you think you can do it don’t hold yourself back any longer and go for it. Oh, and one thing and this I am very proud of, I finished my course with a 99.8% average… the highest in my class J

Grab your Free Olympus DS Voice Recorder. I have the introductory medical terminology DVDs and they're a fantastic introduction into the world of medical transcription.

Medical transcriptions service

2008-01-04T01:04:00.000-08:00

Why Consider Outsourcing Medical Transcription Services

Medical transcriptionists has become one of the fastest growing sections of the medical field these past few years. Most medical places require the doctorÂ´s words to be put into writing for patientsÂ´ files and other documentation purposes. In todayÂ´s technological world, most hospitals require it to be in digital format. It is for this reason that the need has arisen for people to translate doctorsÂ´oral reports into digital documents. Employed secretaries usually do this job, but because of the high demand and quantity, it is becoming big as an area for outsourcing. The transcription can be done a lot more quickly when outsourcing versus in house transcriptioning. This is because the outsourcing medical transcription services devotes all of its time to this one assignment. A secretary is constantly interrupted by phone calls and patients and other duties. An outsourcing medical transcription service provides adequate services to medicalfacilities of all types who outsource this kind of activity. Individual home based people can become transcriptionists and you donâ€™t even have to live in close proximity. As long as you have a reliable computer and Internet connection you can do this kind of work. So basically, medical places will send you an audio file and you type it up, making sure each word is clear and spelled correctly. It is critical that it be accurate, as this will serve as the doctorâ€™s documentation. But that is all the job pretty much requires. Many studies have been done on outsourcing medical transcription services. Research has shown that the U.S. spent $2.3 billion in 2004 for medical transcription outsourcing services. That number is expected to grow to $4.2 billion in 2008. Worldwide, the U.S. Department of Labor has projected the demand for medical transcriptionists to reach $20 billion. Clearly, the demand is there. If you've always dreamed of your own business and are willing to be trained, go to the Internet and do a search on â€œoutsourcing medical transcription service.You should research several training courses and choose the best one that will suit you and your situation. You will be your own boss helping out doctor´s while making pretty decent money.

Medical Transcription through Outsourcing

Medical Transcription is one of the numerous activites that have benefitted from outsourced. Medical Transcription refers to the transformation to text of prerecorded physician notes. This activity has long been carried out by transcription services allied to the hospitals. Yet, with the outburst of offshoring, there has been a reposition in the service delivery model adopted for medical transcriptioning. There has been a paradigm shift in the epicenter of medical transcription to India. With more and more companies mushrooming in India to cater outsourced Medical Transcription services to US based clients, it has spelt a windfall in savings for US based medical practices. After the initial resentment against outsourcing, it has grown to be recognised as the de facto way of doing medical transcription primarily as a means to cut costs. No wonder, outsourced transcription services are focussing on cost as their USP. Nevertheless, the tendency has been such that medical practices are prepared to spend more for qualitative service. Also, practices have become more sensible about the data safeguard issues. Patient information handling becomes a essential mark on which medical transcription services are being judged. Also, pricing clarity, quicker turnaroundtime and appropriate pricing criteria are added factors by which a medical transcription services judged. Speech Recognition software has still not become exact enough to be trusted with patient notes transcription. So for few years more, manual medical transcription with the backing of software and equipments will be the chosen mode of transcription. But it is necessary that medical transcription services shall embrace technology to improve efficiency of the transcription operation.

Expanding Your Medical Transcription Business

I’m always amazed at the number of MTs who routinely struggle to meet deadlines and are swamped in a sea of work with no end in sight. A lot of the times we seem to get used to doing things a certain way and don’t want that to change.

medical transcription business
Although change can be difficult in business sometimes it’s necessary. Think about it if you keep struggling to keep up with your work load how will you ever expand your business or have time to dedicate to new clients?

Expanding your medical transcription business doesn’t have to be difficult. You don’t have to rent out office space or pay employment benefits. In fact it couldn’t be easier, you simply hire subcontracted MTs to work for you.

These MTs are independent MTs and will be responsible for their own taxes and business expenses. You just outsource the work to them and pay them for any completed work as agreed. You don’t even need to commit to a certain amount of work. Most MTs understand that this is how the business is run, if you have a large work load you will outsource and if the work load dies down a bit then you won’t be able to outsource.

So when is the right time to outsource?

Any time you feel you have too much work. If you’re work is taking over your life and you’d like a little free time for your family. If you’re looking to expand and grow your business, or just about any time you feel you could use a little extra help.

Try to find a reliable recommended transcriptionist to help you. Usually you pay them several cents per line less than you charge as you will need to make some money for the proofreading and overall management of the account.

A good place to find transcriptionists that are eager to learn is at your local community college or medical transcriptionist school. Often times these MTs will be willing to work for a little less in exchange for training. This is a great way to help out your fellow future MTs and reduce a bit of your work load in the process.

Medical Transcription – Practice Makes Perfect

The first time I plugged in my transcriber machine and listened to my very first medical dictation, I thought “Oh, my god, what I have I gotten myself into”. You see, I had no prior experience in the health field and I just hadn’t heard anything like this before.

To make matters worst my typing speed was abysmal. In fact, I’ll let you in on a little secret during my first typing class in my medical transcription course I had the worst typing speed out of the whole class…. An embarrassingly low 19 words per minute.

But I stuck it out and by the second month into my course my typing speed was around 40 accurate words per minute and from there on things just snowballed, within 6 months I was typing 80 accurate words per minute and my speed has increased steadily since.

Those foreign dictations didn’t sound so alien anymore and I was actually understanding the medical language and anatomy.

For someone with zero background in the medical field or medical transcription, this was a huge accomplishment.

So how did I do it? With a lot of practice, practice, practice.