Internet and availability of cheap, English proficient labor made it possible to shift thousands of back-office jobs from the developed countries to the developing countries like India. Healthcare jobs like medical transcription were the key among them. Since no particular basic educational qualification was needed for an entry and pay packets were very much lucrative for a … Read more
Do you know almost all of the email messages that you send and receive travel over many networks and computers leaving copies of themselves all over the Internet? Unbelievable? Perform a trace route yourself and then believe! From your computer it takes multiple hops before the message could reach the server at the destination. So probabilities are there … Read more
It’s almost 6-1/2 years we, medical transcriptionists, have been with HIPAA since April 14, 2003. How effective was HIPAA compliance in medical transcription all these days? Where do the medical transcription industry stand in terms of HIPAA pre-enactment of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act? HIPAA Compliance in Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post … Read more
Free Medical Transcription Softwares We have been trying to find all the free medical transcription softwares on the Internet. Thus we were able to find out free voice file players, free text expanders, AutoCorrect migration utility, online free typing tutors etc. Moreover, we made a custom free medical spell checker ourselves using the online free … Read more
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