Medical Transcription : Introduction
Medical Transcription is one of the fastest growing fields in health
care. Medical Transcriptionists are in demand in Western countries especially
in the US where the entire healthcare industry is based on insurance and
detailed medical records are needed for processing insurance claims. Medical
transcription could be one of the speedy growing IT enabled service in
India also, with the rapid change in the outlook in Indian healthcare
and privatization of the insurance sector. India provides an ideal location
for conducting medical transcription with the large population of educated
English speaking people and the comparative low cost which encourages
companies abroad to outsource their work to the Indian Medical Transcription
field.
Medical transcription is an interesting and challenging career. It is
the process whereby one accurately and swiftly transcribes medical records
dictated by doctors and others, including history and physical reports,
clinic notes, office notes, operative reports, consultation notes, discharge
summaries, letters, psychiatric evaluations, laboratory reports, x-ray
reports and pathology reports. M.T. or Medical Transcriptionist is a person
who assists physicians and specialty surgeons usually by transcribing,
formatting, and proof reading their dictated medically oriented report
of a patient's health history. This dictation covers pretty much everything
that takes place between the health care provider and the patient. Usually,
the information dictated by doctors is recorded either into tape or onto
digital voice processing systems. The process of medical transcription
is transferring this information using word processing. Transcription
services range from small, one-person home-based businesses to sophisticated,
high-tech corporations which employ transcriptionists. Some medical transcription
services now employ both 'on-site' and home-based medical transcriptionists.
Medical transcription services serve client hospitals throughout the nation
and abroad.
In India there was a boom in this industry couple of years back with a
lot of companies and training institutes entering this field. Most companies
except a few could not survive due to lack of proper training and understanding
of this comparatively new concept in India. By improving the work standards
and quality of service, India has a wide scope for capturing the huge
clientele in the US and provide employment opportunities to the huge mass
of English speaking and computer literate people in the country. The success
of the surviving companies proves that Medical transcription can hold
a vital link in altering the Indian job scenario.
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