A medical Transcription service certainly sounds better!

Feb 27
08:07

2012

Sharad Gaikwad

Sharad Gaikwad

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You go to a doctor; he tells you have this problem at this part of your body and blah-blah! The medical reports that they give ads to your vows leaving you dazed. This is the old story until Medical Transcription services came into the picture and has been simplifying your medical reports.

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Medical Transcription or MT is the process of converting voice records into text formats that save you from the ugly doctor written prescriptions. It’s the same process,A medical Transcription service certainly sounds better! Articles the doctor consults the patient and after you leave the room the doctor records the entire meeting and records the entire encounter. The record is then handed to the MT who records them and there you have a compiled record of everything. The contemporary way of writing the reports and putting them together along with a stack of files is fad and confusing. The process of transcribing though sounds a bit weird but is a simple and efficient way to find the right solution for your reports and diagnoses. The old days of transcribing through typewriters has seen its days and for a better database and future record for health reasons.

A concept that began in the early 60’s has taken a big turn and changed the way things work for the patient as well as the doctor. Previously they were been recorded in the digital tapes and now are recorded in a better and organized way. Now is the time of Speech Recognition or SR with special officers called Medical Transcriptionists maintaining your medications? Technically MT and SR are two different things and SR dominates the process, MT is also an integral part of the transcribing process. Transcription India though in its nascent stage will see the growth sooner or later. 

The best part of the new system however is that the data is safe and can be accessed at any time of the day.  It makes way for a more compact and simplified data. There are two ways of transcribing, the integral way and the external way though both have their set of advantages. External or outsourcing way of transcribing is much relevant and cost friendly. Rather than working at the hospitals the MT’s have the preference of working from home. The $25 billion industry has been on the increase and has been increasing at the rate of more than 15% every year. One of the other reasons for outsourcing being labor being relatively cheap in countries like Philippines, Australia and even Medical Transcription India is quite a business.

However the darker side of the Medical transcription services could land the patient and the doctor in trouble. For example if the transcriptionist makes an error in comprehending the tapes that might lead to a mistake in the database and that might in turn cause health disadvantages to the patient. With the advancement of technology and the screens turning smaller transcribing through PDA’s and cell phones have also been on the increase. There are various software that automatically transcribes the audio tapes into the written word format. So what’s your pick: Boring reports or ease to read Medical transcription services?