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Medical Transcription, An Emerging Winner

Medical Transcription, An Emerging Winner
By: Jay B. Stockman

There are distinct objectives to consider when trying to choose a career, including knowing yourself, knowing your options, knowing how you constitute decisions and addressing any barriers to your decision-making. Effective career decision-making requires an abundance of work and energy; this is necessary to establish some degree of satisfaction with your career choice. One such career that has emerged as fulfilling, provocative, well paying and in demand is medical transcription. The employment of medical transcriptionists is projected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2012. A growing and aging population will spur demand for medical transcription services.

Basically, a medical transcriptionist listens to dictated recordings made by a healthcare professional, and transcribes them into medical reports, correspondence, and other administrative info. While listening to the recordings, using pause techniques, sentences are keyed into a word processor, editing as necessary for grammar and clarity. Documents produced include discharge summaries, history and physical examination reports, operative reports, consultation reports, autopsy reports, diagnostic imaging studies, progress notes, and referral letters. These are returned to the health care provider for review, signature, or correction. These documents eventually become part of the patients’ permanent files, in addition to required insurance documentation.

To understand and accurately transcribe dictated reports into a format that is clear and intelligible for the reader, medical transcriptionists must understand medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures, pharmacology, and treatment assessments. As a result, medical transcriptionists should have completed postsecondary training in medical transcription, offered by many vocational schools, community colleges, and distance-learning programs.

Working conditions are generally comfortable settings, such as hospitals, physicians’ offices, transcription service offices, clinics, laboratories, medical libraries, government medical facilities, or at home. Many medical transcriptionists work from home as employees for hospitals, and transcription services or as self-employed, independent contractors. The average salary for a medical transcriptionist is between $10.87 and $15.63. With experience, medical transcriptionists can advance to supervisory positions, home-based work, editing, consulting, or teaching.

With the increased demand for standardized records, there will be rapid employment growth in offices of physicians or other health practitioners, especially in large group practices. Medical transcription is a career that may fit your lifestyle, and bring you prosperity, and fulfillment.

Source: Jay B Stockman is a contributing editor for Online Medical Transcription Services.
Affordable Transcription Services
By: GMRTranscription Services

Affordable transcription means cost-effective transcription services to clients using web based software technology without compromising quality. It provides fast and accurate transcription service for legal, medical and other professional industries.

To make transcription affordable, the transcriptionists mainly use two kinds of services.

1. FTP Digital uploading: Uploading audio files for transcription to an FTP is the most cost effective and quick way to send voice recordings to the transcription service. For this, the audio for transcription should be of good quality and then is converted to MP3 for uploading. There are a lot of free software available on the internet to do the conversion. The information like time of recording, number of people in the recording and the turnaround option are provided by the client. Based on this information, the cost is calculated.

2. Call-in dictation: In call-in interview, a toll-free number is dialed via a touch-tone phone. With the help of client’s personal code, the audio is dictated into the receiver or speaker of the telephone. Key pads are used to control the recording functions. After the completion of the call, a digital file is created and can be sent for transcription.

Call-in dictation has many benefits like:

1. No capital expenditure for software.
2. 24 hour service availability.
3. Ability to dictate from anywhere, only a phone is required.
4. The costs are only for the minutes one is using.

This kind of dictation is ideal for interviews, meetings and group discussions. Here, the transcription cost is predictable.

Companies that claim their transcription services are affordable are
1) Are using advanced technology.
2) They are getting their transcription outsourced at a cheaper destination
3) They have a very large client base

By providing good quality recordings, one can make transcription affordable, as the turnaround time will be less and the transcription will be more accurate.

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This article is issued in general public interest, and contains information on transcription services compiled by GMRTranscription Services. Tips for Organizing Your Home Office
By: Meditec Contributor Dawn Moreno

Many people have such disorganized home offices, and it really can affect your efficiency and overall quality of work. Have you ever searched for an hour for a document just to find it under a stack of papers? Worse yet, have you ever been in the position of having accidentally tossed out something important? Having an organized and tidy home office is the foundation for a smooth running business and avoiding organizational problems and issues. Organizing supplies, using folders and file cabinets, and working from a “To Do” list, and ergonomically designing your office are all helpful ways to make your office efficient.

Using folders and files to organize your home office is essential to good home office management. This is a very easy process. You do not need a complicated filing system to be effective. You should start with a filing cabinet and manilla file folders. You can name each folder according to client name, month of the year, etc. Whatever works best for you and will keep papers that are cluttering your desk organized.

Having containers for small items on your desk make it less cluttered. Items such as paperclips, rubber bands, scissors, staples, staplers, etc should be kept in a small container on your desk and not strung all over it.

Also, one of the best organizing tips I’ve used is a “To Do” list. A list that prioritizes what you want to accomplish each day, week, and month assists you in staying organized. If you don’t get everything done, then you re-work the list to schedule those tasks in on another day. This type of system assists in not missing important telephone calls, meetings, or other scheduled events and assists in avoiding feeling overwhelmed.

An organized office should also be an ergonomically designed office. A good sturdy office chair that is adjustable in height, arms, back, etc. is a wonderful investment. You can find good chairs for about $200.00 and sometimes even less than that. You can’t put a price on comfort, so invest well in a good sturdy office chair. A flat screen large monitor for your computer, ergonomic keyboard, and ergonomic mouse are also good investments for the organized home office. These items reduce stress on your eyes, hands, wrists, and back. Also, make sure your office has good lighting.

When your home office is organized, you don’t have to spend time searching for particular documents and papers. When you need an office supply, you know exactly where it is located and you know when you are running low on supplies. Having an ergonomically designed office assists in productivity because you are less fatigued, and are not having to deal with pain in various parts of your body due to poor ergonomics. Working from a “To Do” list assists in breaking down large tasks into workable chunks and reduces stress and feelings of being overwhelmed. Lastly, take breaks during your workday to straighten up your office, stretch, and to enjoy your workday. When you find ways to enjoy what you are doing, you will never work a day in your life. Medical Record Blunders
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Prescriptive compliance: A woman in Arkansas brought her baby in to see the doctor, and he determined right away the baby had an ear ache.

He wrote a prescription for ear drops. In the directions he wrote, “Put two drops in right ear every four hours” and he abbreviated “right” as an R with a circle around it.

Several days passed, and the woman returned with her baby, complaining that the baby still had an earache, and his little behind was getting really greasy with all those drops of oil.

The doctor looked at the bottle of ear drops and sure enough, the pharmacist had typed the following instructions on the label: “Put two drops in R ear every four hours.” This Month’s Recipe:
By: Meditec Contributor Dawn Moreno

Wendy’s Chili recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 lb ground beef
• 1 x 29 oz can tomato sauce
• 1 x 29 oz can kidney beans (with liquid)
• 1 x 29 oz can pinto beans (with liquid)
• 1 cup diced onion (1 medium onion)
• ½ cup diced green chili (2 chilies or use canned green chiles)
• ¼ cup diced celery (1 stalk. When I made this, I used 4 stalks)
• 3 medium tomatoes, chopped(Or, use 1 large can diced tomatoes)
• 2 tspn cumin powder
• 3 tbsp chili powder (I used twice this much)
• 1 ½ tspn black pepper
• 2 tspn salt
• 2 cups water

Preparation and Cooking Instructions:

1. Brown the ground beef in a skillet over medium heat; drain off the fat.
2. Using a fork, crumble the cooked beef into pea-size pieces.
3. In a large pot, combine the beef plus all the remaining ingredients, and bring to a simmer over low heat.
4. Cook, stirring every 15 minutes, for 2 to 3 hours.