In the future, will there still be a need for Medical Transcriptionists?
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Your best bet is to research the industry and don't rely on hearsay.\n\nAs for as the jobs are concerned hospitals will still need transcriptions on staff because not all hospitals will be replacing or outsourcing to automated systems.\n\nThey very well might be moving towards "voice recognition" technologies. But to eliminate this would probably be very risky in the future.\n\nCheck out these links for your research. The more you know the better!!!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_transcription#Medical_transcription_process\n\nhttp://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos271.htm\n\nhttp://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Speech_Technology/Medical_Transcription/\n\nHope this helps. \n\nGod Bless you.
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Well, learning to spell correctly would help.  It is important that you be accurate.   \nWhat is......usin or mtdaily?????\nI do my husbands medical transcription.  I also have a cousin, an aunt & a sister-in-law who also do medical transcription from home.  This is a field that will fall by the wayside once the voice recognition software is perfected.  I would not rely on it to be your long term career.  My aunt, cousin & sister-in-law have each lost a physician or more to this new software.  My suggestion is NOT to rely on it for the long term.
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Get some Medical Transcription training and then you can work from home.  Or get into doing Ebay sales or Ebay auction programming from home, if you are trained in Computers.
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You just described the job of a transcriber. Either medical or legal (you take notes either verbal or written and put them on paper in a way that makes sense to anyone who'll read it down the line) It's hard work, don't think it's a free ride, but you can work independently, work your own hours (if as you say the work gets done) It's a HUGE plus if you're computer proficient.  Again as long as the work gets done you can snack, eat, listen to music as much as you want. The downside is, you have to have training to do it and you have to be REALLY disciplined to force yourself to work to GET the job done, and that's not alwasy as easy as it seems.  Good luck! It's a great job
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A transcriptionist?  If it is legitimate work you are welcome to contact me, I am a transcriptionist by trade and am looking for evening/weekend work.  =)
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Get a medical transcription degree and work at home
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unfortunately not\nhowever, i may consider them (in a year or so) for my next printer/scanner/fax machine
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I am a medical transcriptionist...I work at home, as much or as little as I need to.  I make realistic money...not millions but way more than working in an office or other normal middle class job.  There really isn't a ceiling to what I can make...only my desire (or lack of) and ability to do the work.  It isn't a get rich quick thing in any way...but if you are looking to honestly work from home and make your own hours it is a good one.  I did an at-home course and am an Independant Contractor not an employee.  This is an area that I doubt will disappear anytime soon...sick people, old people, and doctors who eat while they dictate their notes are job security.
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Have you considered training for medical transcription online?  If so, you could check out these sites as they are probably the best and your chances of obtaining transcription work would be greatly improved if you are a graduate of one of these schools.  These schools might possibly be more expensive than others, but you are almost guaranteed a job.  Anyway, you can check these.  Good luck!\n\nListed below are the some of the more popular MT schools.  Hope that helps!
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MEDICAL,ENGEENIERCOMPUTER ETC.
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right now the demand is high but 10 years down the road i dont know, the future is a toss up. if mail order pharmacy continues to grow (its being pushed heavily by many insurance companies like caremark and medco)  it can drastically reduce the amount of pharmacists needed to dispense prescriptions since they are filled mostly by $10/hour technicians and robots with a few pharmacists just looking at the bottles and saying "uh, ok" instead of filling them themselves and talking to people. but others say pharmacy will become more clinical which will create many new jobs, and baby boomers are aging which will increase prescription volume so pharmacists will be in larger demand than they ever have before.\n\nso there are some people that say feast, some people that say famine. who knows what will happen in the future.\n\npersonally, i think the future will be somewhere between. current pharmacy jobs might disappear some due to mail order, but there is a huge and growing nursing shortage so pharmacists might gain a new niche in the healthcare community. also, if things get bad the major chains have a powerful lobby. mail order bends a lot of laws, and if profits start to fall, walgreens, CVS, etc. will probably call the mail order companies on it. but yeah, i have the same worries as you.
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Yes. You pick up the doctor's dictation tapes and return later with printed transscriptions.
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Meshu\nI can  provide you with ideas of medical transciption. NHS is a large body in UK and they provide lot of transcription work in India. You can google for NHS Trust (about 800 of them) and they go to each site and send a feeler email and see if anyone is interested.\nCheers\nAndy
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Anything to do with the medical field is in demand. I cannot say what state has more, but I just know that if you are thinking of going into a career in the medical field you probably shouldn't have too much trouble finding work.
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Median annual earnings of medical records and health information technicians (includes medical coding specialists) were $25,590 in 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $20,650 and $32,990. \n\nJob prospects should be very good. Employment of medical records and health information technicians is expected to grow much faster than average for all occupations through 2014 because of rapid growth in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be increasingly scrutinized by health insurance companies, regulators, courts, and consumers. Also, technicians will be needed to enter patient information into computer databases to comply with Federal legislation mandating the use of electronic patient records.
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My friend has been in that field since last 8 years. She is an editor in the Medical tras=nscription. \nShe is doing good earning as well