Preface Without a medical spell checker installed, it is irritating to transcribe with MS Word with those red underscores all over the document. You get frustrated adding such underlined words every time to the inbuilt custom dictionary of Microsoft Word by right clicking and adding. To avoid such repeated annoyance, the more permanent solution would be installing … Read more
I gave an interview to Jennifer Walsh, Editor, www.medicaltranscriptionist.org. The interview has been published on their site here. It’s the first interview of its kind in my role as a medical transcriptionist. I have answered how I got into the medical transcription industry, my advice for someone thinking about a medical transcription career and wants … Read more
Have you ever calculated how many keystrokes you make a day as a medical transcriptionist? Most probably you would have if you’re on a productivity based payroll. Okay let’s try working it out as simple mathematics if anyone has not yet. Suppose you type 1000 lines a day. A standard line is 65 characters including free spaces; even for … Read more
Voice file player, the unavoidable integral part of medical transcription! How many choices do you have in that? Well, this week, I tried to do some research on the available freewares on the internet. In the early days of my transcription career when I started with CBay Systems, I was working with Medipro, a voice file … Read more
Ever since healthcare reforms started to surface in Obama’s speeches or rather after he signed the stimulus package to law setting aside $19.2 billion for healthcare IT alone to reach a goal of full EHR by 2014 promising hundreds of thousands of new jobs by boosting healthcare, the question “How is it going to benefit … Read more
Medical transcription was a hot-selling cake in the 1990s and at the turn of this century in India. There were a lot of institutes offering medical transcription course. It created such a hype that every Tom, Dick, and Harry who couldn’t find a place elsewhere wanted to make hay in medical transcription, either as an … Read more