Online medical transcription: A boon for doctors and physicians

The transcriptions tend to reduce the work load of doctors as transcriptionists (MT’s) work day and night to convert the audio records into text format. The reason why transcription services have emerged as one of finest allied health professional business is solely because of the rising medical records of patients which make it difficult for the doctors and physicians as well as the hospital staff to handle it.  The medical transcriptionists either prefer to work freelance or through an outsourcing company to transcribe the data efficiently on time. Working from freelance has led to the rise of online medical transcription in a great way over the past couple of years.

Transcription in India mostly happens through outsourcing even though there are several private services and companies that offer transcription help at a good price. However the reason why outsourcing is preferred as ideal for medical transcription is solely because of the professional spirit and the accuracy of the transcriptions as the Transcriptionists tend to be well educated and have adequate knowledge on transcribing data at a good speed. However, in online medical transcription the work flow gets pretty casual and many a times there are silly errors created by transcriptionists who indeed can prove hazardous and fatal for patients. Freelancing also sometimes results into loss of data and is thus not really recommended or valued a lot. The transcription business thus has proved to be a trusted one only for outsourcing companies and private services. Outsourcing of medical services is a must today in the allied health professional industry. It is a measure to help the doctors and patients to comprehensively store and preserve the medical data in text format and accurately create it as well. This is also one of the main reasons why the government itself encourages more and more outsourcing services to provide for medical transcriptions. It eventually also gives rise to the scope of employment and generates good revenue subsequently. Although there have been a few hassles and complaints regarding the transcription services; some of them claiming that the transcription services tend to misuse the data of the patients to distribute it to other services who contact the patients in turn promote their medical product. Still, the medical transcriptional companies especially the outsourcing companies make it a point to safeguard the privacy of the patients as well as prevent any data of the patient from being misused by any transcriptionist.

Online medical transcription though blamed a lot for the lack of privacy of data of patients. There are many freelances who continue to work as Transcriptionists as it helps them cope up with other aspects of life while simultaneously earning money part time. The private services which hire freelancers too take adequate care to ensure the privacy of data is maintained and t hat the transcriptions are created error free.