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JUNE 2010 SUMMER Edition |
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Volume 12—Issue 3 |
Medical Transcription Terms: |
Voice recognition and medical transcription: |
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Congratulations to these MTatHome Medical Transcription Graduates!
Jenny Sommerlot We respect your privacy! |
What rates to charge your medical transcription clients?Are you wondering what rate you should charge new doctors or medical transcription services when they become your clients? One thing to understand is that most doctors expect to pay by the character line. In most cases, 65 characters are considered a character line.
Researching medical transcription rates can be tricky. The reason for this is because rates may be different from state to state. You may call doctors or medical transcription services in your area and they may pay 12 cents per line. Yet, a doctor or MT service 500 miles away may charge 15 cents or even as low as 9 cents per line. This can also be different depending on the medical specialty that you are transcribing in. Click Here to read the entire article. |
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Medical transcriptionists have had the wonderful job of transcribing the doctor’s dictated patient notes. Some dictations are very easy to understand and the doctors speak very clearly. However, there are doctors that can make a medical transcriptionist job challenging at times. This is because some of the doctors will not dictate in a quiet room or will be eating or even mumbling when dictating. Therefore; when an MT listens to the dictation they hear the doctor as well as back ground noises. Most MTs understand that this is just part of the job and learn to listen closely for the information that is dictated by the doctor.
However, voice recognition software is not going to understand certain words or sentences if there is a lot of background noise of patients or co-workers talking. It also will not understand the words if the doctor is mumbling or has a strong accent.
This will create a lot of mistakes in the transcribed medical reports. Something that the medical profession cannot have! Accuracy in patient medical reports is a MUST!
It is for this reason that you will not see voice recognition or better known as SRT (Speech Recognition Technology) take the place of the medical transcriptionist. Click Here for the entire article about voice recognition and SRT systems. |
How to organize your Medical Transcription Business at home:It is very important to have an organized office setting when running a medical transcription business from your home office.
Here are some TIPS you can use to help you get organized quickly. |