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So many people nowadays want to work from home, especially mothers having
young children. Its not really very hard to be a Medical
transcriptionist. The start-up costs are low comparing to other home businesses.
The minimum requirement is need a computer, a printer, a transcriber and few reference books.
Medical transcription is similar to typing jobs taking medical notes, which are dictated by a physician, nurse, health provider etc.
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It will be keep as reference and permanent record of a patient. When you visit the doctor for your checkup, doctor will take a look in your chart and refers to the notes typed by the Medical
Transcriptionist.
Its very important for the doctors to know about the patients history and what are the medicines the patients has taken before and details about the surgeries. Another facility doctors need a Medical Transcriptionist is so they can be reimbursed for their services by your insurance company.
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Process
The physician provides the medical notes and the medical
transcriptionist types and usually records onto a hand held voice recorder, a little machine that holds a micro cassette. The transcriptionist puts this tape into a transcriber, which is a glorified tape player, but it has headphones and a foot pedal. After that, the reports will be typed in a program like Microsoft Word, and then printed out and delivered back to the doctor's table or can be sent via the Internet.
Skills Needed
Good Listening Skills
Research Skills
Excellent in English Grammar
Good typing speed
Be a self-motivator
Also you need some softwares like Medical spellchecker and a word expander utility to cut down on the amount of actual typing you do. Microsoft Word could be good option to start with.
Earnings
Medical transcription is usually paid by the amount of work transcribed. Hence, it is quite normal to charge the clients by the line. If you charge 15 cents per line, type 200 lines per hour, then you could easily earn $30.00 per
hour. Just submit your Email Address & Name and click Free Jobs and check your email after 5
minutes. Join
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