Medical transcription is the practice of converting voice recorded messages of the doctor or the physician who dictated it into a text document. The person performing it is called a medical transcriptionist.
The history
Medical transcription has come a long way from manual typewriters to digital recordings. This originated in the 1960s when it consisted of abbreviated [...]

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act came into existence in 1996.The first part of the HIPAA Compliant Medical Transcription Services Act basically deals with the health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they lose or change their jobs. The second part of the Act deals with the establishment of national standards for [...]

medical transcription is the act of converting the dictated version of a doctor or a physician to digital versions or electronic formats. All the information related to a person’s history of medical health, his/her current health condition and all the data are converted into electronic files for future reference.
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India has become the most sought after destination for offshore medical transcription today with the industry growing at a tremendous rate. Since in countries like US, the health sector is completely dependent on insurance, medical transcription has great importance. So in order to create medical documents in a profitable manner, they outsource it to offshore [...]

Medical transcription involves transcribing the notes of your doctor/physician and converting them into electronic files for future reference. The medical system in the United States is completely based on insurance and hence scrutiny of the files is necessary to process it. Hence in such situation MT finds its importance.
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Orthopedics deals with the bone and the spinal column of human body. Orthopedics transcription deals with the decoding of messages related to the treatment of bones in human body and converting the dictations into electronic files. This is done to have a future reference for the patient. Medical transcription orthopedics helps in analyzing the patient’s [...]

Radiology deals with radiations and radioactive substances. The radiology department in a hospital takes care of the scanning and other procedures that involve treatment or diagnosis with radioactive substances. Radiology medical transcription involves decoding or converting the dictation of a radiologist to electronic files or digital formats. A radiology medical transcriptionist is actively engaged in [...]

Radiology deals with radiations and radioactive substances. The radiology department in a hospital takes care of the scanning and other procedures that involve treatment or diagnosis with radioactive substances. Radiology medical transcription involves decoding or converting the dictation of a radiologist to electronic files or digital formats. A radiology medical transcriptionist is actively engaged in [...]

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment and care of infants, children and adolescents. Pediatricians are doctors who specialize in child medicine. Pediatrics Transcription involves decoding of the dictation of the pediatrician into digital or electronic files. This is done by a medical transcriptionist who has experience in pediatric transcription.
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India has always been a home to outsourcing due to the availability of cheap labor. There was a huge call centre boom initially that led to the emergence of many of them. There were IT companies that took the outsourced work from the software majors from United States. Medical Transcription outsourcing became a major business [...]