Top Ten Disadvantages of Working From Home as a Transcriptionist

The overwhelming reaction from work-at-home moms who registered their antagonist views when I opined that a work-at-home lifestyle makes you lazy and the unilateral opinion spread across the web favoring a work-at-home lifestyle further warrants to list out the disadvantages of working from home to substantiate my stance; hence I’m listing here the top ten … Read more

How Home Transcription Can Make You Lazy, Good for Nothing Else?

In the good old days when I moved from working at an office to working from home, I found it difficult to make people around me, my relatives, neighbors, and friends from other industries, believe that I work from home. All of them were skeptic about my intentions! Time flew by so quickly and the … Read more

HIPAA Compliance Guidelines & Tips for Medical Transcriptionists

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

How to Overcome the Monotony & Lethargy in a Telecommuting Job?

One of the greatest disadvantages of a telecommuting job is the easy access to your bed at home that whenever boredom or lethargy steps in, you would be there crashing for a couple of minutes or hours unless you’re self disciplined. For me, it’s ten long years into medical transcription profession (out of which six long … Read more

Tips & Techniques to Minimize Distractions in Home Transcription

The 2008 salary survey results reveal that the number of HIM professionals working from home doubled, from 12 percent to 24 percent, and despite economic woes most HIM professionals saw an uptick in salaries with full-time medical transcriptionists reported bringing in $33,500 an year, making medical transcription still an attractive career choice despite outsourcing woes. The … Read more