Job Description
Medical transcription is the process of creating written documents from doctors' dictated reports, procedures, and notes, in order to create files representing the treatment history of patients. Health practitioners dictate what they have done after performing checkups and procedures on patients. Medical transcriptionists convert that oral dictation into detailed patient records.
This work can be done within a hospital, clinic, lab, or doctor's office, but it is now very common to do this work from your own home, working for an internet-based service provider or as an independent entrepreneur. In fact, Medical Transcription was ranked as one of the top ten home-based businesses in Inc., Parents, Business Start-Ups and Good Housekeeping Magazines.
Working in the medical industry has many benefits. Not only is typing medical records interesting and challenging work, but you also learn a lot about medicine. And best of all, it's a very stable career field. The North American population is aging, and we're also living longer than ever. As our population grows and as we age, the demand on our health care system will grow as well. Thus increasing the demand in all health care sectors, including Medical Transcription. |
