The advent of Medical Transcription Companies in India

Mar 29
15:13

2012

Sharad Gaikwad

Sharad Gaikwad

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Medical Transcription is nothing but the process of converting voice recorded prescriptions from doctors into text format. The process of generating hard copies for medical reports and prescriptions has been an old business which has also been adopted by several countries including India.

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Today,The advent of Medical Transcription Companies in India Articles there are many Medical Transcription Companies located in and around the world that help generate transcriptions in this allied health profession.  Medical transcriptionists either work from home or through hospitals to convert the prescriptions and store it in electronic text format for further use of patients and hospital records.  Nowadays, there has been a significant rise of outsourcing companies who handle medical Transcription at the behest of physicians as well as hospitals.

Medical Transcription companies use a transcriber to convert audio prescriptions directed by physicians into text format and the Medical Transcriptionists (MT) see to it that the text s accurate and precise. Transcription in India is mostly handled by special outsourcing companies who hire transcriptionists (another rising profession) to convert most of their prescriptions and patient records into text format. Medical Transcription Companies have although been criticized slating whether transcription work should be outsourced or no highlighting privacy issues of patients. Another concern has been the issue of proper educational skills of transcriptionists as some of the do not have the pre requisite skills to handle transcribed data leading to fatal errors and miscalculations as well as loss of data at times. This is the reason why Transcription Companies nowadays are more careful and peculiar about the quality of the professional hired to convert prescriptions.

Medical services outsourcing as some say is a must have today as there has been a tremendous rise in the total data of patients and to let it be handled by hospitals and physicians alone is a bane to the medical industry itself. This is why the government itself encourages more and more outsourcing companies to handle transcription data and ease out the work whilst generating employment at the same time. To safeguard privacy of patients, stricter guidelines too have been set by certain companies and there are various codes nowadays that Transcriptionists follow namely regarding use of professional language instead slang as well as avoiding fatal errors while converting data of patients. The employees are being hired more on full time basis as well unlike opting to work from home

Medical Transcription Companies hardly existed few years back but today they are the backbone of the allied health professions.  Also the outsourcing has garnered positive response and has been accepted well by medical professionals and hospitals who believe that it will help ease out the work load and also prove to be time saving with the hiring of more professional medical transcriptionists. In India, there are innumerous companies who take up this task like Alfa e-solutions, Blue Matrix, Acroseas, Masim Infotech, Mashcom Technologies, Mediland Transtech, Point Perfect Transcription Services and many more companies that have started in various cities in India to cater to the needs of physicians and hospitals in converting the medical data to text format.