Medical Transcription Growh

You're sitting in front of a computer with your headphones on and your right foot on a pedal. You're listening to a doctor's medical report (patient's assessment, diagnosis, therapeutic procedures, etc.) recorded through a high-tech recorder and converted into an audio file in your computer. You encode the report making sure that you get every medical word loud and clear including the medications, with correct spelling and grammar.

Medical transcription is no easy job as training and experience are required. You are paid well, too, as much as that of a nurse. Each year, approximately 230,000 medical transcriptionists get hired but their availability is dropping by ten percent yearly. The U.S. Department of Labor has projected the demand for MTs to reach $20 billion worldwide.

Outsourcing transcription work proves to be more cost effective for most U.S. hospitals than utilizing in-house secretarial staff to transcribe dictations of physicians. Letting medical secretaries do the transcribing usually causes delays as they have a variety of tasks to do like answering phone calls and being a receptionist at the same time.