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Do you want to get typing work? Consider transcription.
Transcription can provide you with many hours of typing work. Transcription is simply typing what's dictated.
You don't need to be a medical transcriptionist to provide transcription services. When speaking about transcription, people think about medical transcription.
In addition to medical professionals, a wide range of individuals and organizations outsource transcription services. Your clients may include insurance companies, universities, financial institutions, authors of books, consultants, focus groups and public speakers.
Business transcription does not require any knowledge of medical terminology.
If you are a business transcriptionist, medical transcriptionist, legal transcriptionist, be aware of the growing popularity of digital dictation and transcription. Although the majority of physicians and businesses are still using tapes to record dictation, many are starting to use digital voice recorders.
To provide transcription services, you will need a transcription machine. Transcribers have a headset and foot pedal that allows you to stop and rewind the cassette with your feet while having your hands available for typing.
Traditional audio tape transcription includes standard cassette transcription, micro cassette and mini tape transcription. These are typically referred to as cassette transcription or tape transcription. Until you have a client, you won't know which size cassettes you'll need. Talk to your prospective clients before buying any transcription equipment.
Digital transcription is becoming more popular and can provide you with additional typing work from long-distance clients who are looking for transcriptionists to perform transcription work from home.
Here's how digital dictation and transcription works: Your clients dictate into a handheld digital voice recorder, upload the files from their recorder to their computer with a USB cable, send an email message to a transcriptionist, and attach the digital files.
Digital transcription has many benefits for the transcriptionists. The audio quality is usually much better than tapes. You can move easier and faster to specific places in the dictation and you have more control over the playback speed. You don't have to deal with pick-up and delivery of tapes.
When the medical transcriptionists receive the email, they can open the file and bring it into their computer with specialized software. They can convert the digital file to different formats, but the most popular file format is the "wav" format.
Specialized transcription software and a foot pedal allow the transcriptionist to move through the digital voice file just like you do when transcribing from a tape. After transcribing the files, the transcriptionist emails the finished work back to the client as an attachment.
The foot pedal is connected to your computer through the USB or serial port. A foot pedal that comes with a tape transcriber will not work. You also need an Internet connection, an email account, and a word processing software program such as Microsoft Word that will work with your digital file transcribing system.
Some foot pedals have the ability to convert files recorded on almost every type of digital handheld recorder. This allows you to perform transcription work for many clients, regardless of the type of digital voice recorder they use.
If you are not looking into transcription work, you may miss opportunities to typing work from home on a contract basis.
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Problem Medical Transcription Outsourced?
It is more important than ever to be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This Act was introduced in 1996, but not fully implemented until 2003. HIPAA was created to insure that people between jobs would still have access to quality health care coverage, since in the past it was difficult or impossible to change insurance carriers without facing lowered coverage or exorbitant premiums.****
HIPAA was also intended to protect private health care information and create a uniform standard for dispersing personal information.****
Some companies and physicians are outsourcing medical transcription. There can problems with the medical records being protected when outsourced to other countries. Some countries do not recognize HIPAA.
Working from home as a Medical Transcriptiionist it is very important to comply with HIPAA. Your records should be very safe and secure. Your computer should have anti-virus and anti-spyware, you should also have double-secure files when you save hard copies for your clients. Your emails should be encrypted, and you need a safe FTP program to transfer your work. You should be the only one to used the computer that you transcribe with and make sure it is password-protected. This computer should only be used for your medical transcription and medical billing work.
Medical Transcription-2 promises that all work related information, records, and documents are maintained within the strictest confidence. D.R. Moore's Word Processing and Medical Transcription-2 agrees that no matter, will be divulged, either directly or indirectly to any third party, and shall continue to be effective after the termination of agreement.
MISSION STATEMENT
Solving your overload crises with professional workmanship at it's best to your specification on time and on budget.
MISSION VISION
Vision is to provide professional error free workmanship, to the medical community, businesses, and individuals on as needed or on-going basis.
Let us you with your overflow work as needed or ongoing. Medical Transcription-2 is HIPAA compliant.
Putting Clients and their patients first.
This title is very scary "Indian police arrest company boss accused of selling medical records of British patients"
Read more: Here
HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This Act was introduced in 1996, but not fully implemented until 2003. HIPAA was created to insure that people between jobs would still have access to quality health care coverage, since in the past it was difficult or impossible to change insurance carriers without facing lowered coverage or exorbitant premiums.****
HIPAA was also intended to protect private health care information and create a uniform standard for dispersing personal information.****
Some companies and physicians are outsourcing medical transcription. There can problems with the medical records being protected when outsourced to other countries. Some countries do not recognize HIPAA.
Working from home as a Medical Transcriptiionist it is very important to comply with HIPAA. Your records should be very safe and secure. Your computer should have anti-virus and anti-spyware, you should also have double-secure files when you save hard copies for your clients. Your emails should be encrypted, and you need a safe FTP program to transfer your work. You should be the only one to used the computer that you transcribe with and make sure it is password-protected. This computer should only be used for your medical transcription and medical billing work.
Medical Transcription-2 promises that all work related information, records, and documents are maintained within the strictest confidence. D.R. Moore's Word Processing and Medical Transcription-2 agrees that no matter, will be divulged, either directly or indirectly to any third party, and shall continue to be effective after the termination of agreement.
MISSION STATEMENT
Solving your overload crises with professional workmanship at it's best to your specification on time and on budget.
MISSION VISION
Vision is to provide professional error free workmanship, to the medical community, businesses, and individuals on as needed or on-going basis.
Let us you with your overflow work as needed or ongoing. Medical Transcription-2 is HIPAA compliant.
Putting Clients and their patients first.
This title is very scary "Indian police arrest company boss accused of selling medical records of British patients"
Read more: Here
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Medical Transcripiton A Green Job
Working from home as a Medical Transcripitonist (MT) is helping save the planet. According to a recent survey in the United States 83% of all MTs work from home, this is considered good for the environment.
Decreasing one of the largest source of pollution in the world, driving automobiles, MTs work from home and there is no need to drive to work. Even so now with digital dictation MTs can receive dictation from the physicians in many different ways. There is the 800 number 24/7 call in dictation, the hand held digital recorder that can be uploaded to the physician's computer and email or directly to the MTs computer. With the smart phones one can just dial a computer and dictate right with their smart phone. There are a lot of HIPAA compliant software programs that allows the physician to view what is in progress and what is finished and this can go straight to the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
The old ways are still in progress, some physicians have gotten comfortable with the tape recorder system where the MT goes and pick up the tape and return home to transcribe what was dictated and then return it on paper every three days or so. This still cuts down on driving every day to work. Soon all the physicians will see how efficient and safe the electronic transfers of EHR and will eventually go all digital or electronic.
MTs working from home is not only helping reducing pollution from automobiles, but helping reducing the use of paper with EHR. These programs are secure, efficient and effective fast way to keep up with all of the paperwork that has to be completed with the EHR. The medical community are moving forward to making all medical records EHRs.
As you can see MTs that work from home are becoming more environmentally friendly and help cut down on carbon emissions. Medical Transcription is a Green Job.
We can practice to use energy efficient light, computers, printers, faxes, and phones. Offering many print materials in a downloadable format to help save paper and making "scratch pads" using backside of waste paper for notes to save paper and last but not least when you need to print try printing on both sides of the paper to save another sheet of paper.
Promote green training programs and careers. Allow employees to work from home to cut down on carbon emissions.
Always practice recycling, and use less plastic materials, then we could all be on our way to making a green track of foot prints all over the world.
We have the right prescription for you, Take the worry off your paper work and concentrate on patient work.
Cut down on Carbon Emissions.
Consider Medical Transcription-2 for your transcription work.
Visit http://medicaltranscription-2.com for a GREENER FUTURE
Decreasing one of the largest source of pollution in the world, driving automobiles, MTs work from home and there is no need to drive to work. Even so now with digital dictation MTs can receive dictation from the physicians in many different ways. There is the 800 number 24/7 call in dictation, the hand held digital recorder that can be uploaded to the physician's computer and email or directly to the MTs computer. With the smart phones one can just dial a computer and dictate right with their smart phone. There are a lot of HIPAA compliant software programs that allows the physician to view what is in progress and what is finished and this can go straight to the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
The old ways are still in progress, some physicians have gotten comfortable with the tape recorder system where the MT goes and pick up the tape and return home to transcribe what was dictated and then return it on paper every three days or so. This still cuts down on driving every day to work. Soon all the physicians will see how efficient and safe the electronic transfers of EHR and will eventually go all digital or electronic.
MTs working from home is not only helping reducing pollution from automobiles, but helping reducing the use of paper with EHR. These programs are secure, efficient and effective fast way to keep up with all of the paperwork that has to be completed with the EHR. The medical community are moving forward to making all medical records EHRs.
As you can see MTs that work from home are becoming more environmentally friendly and help cut down on carbon emissions. Medical Transcription is a Green Job.
We can practice to use energy efficient light, computers, printers, faxes, and phones. Offering many print materials in a downloadable format to help save paper and making "scratch pads" using backside of waste paper for notes to save paper and last but not least when you need to print try printing on both sides of the paper to save another sheet of paper.
Promote green training programs and careers. Allow employees to work from home to cut down on carbon emissions.
Always practice recycling, and use less plastic materials, then we could all be on our way to making a green track of foot prints all over the world.
We have the right prescription for you, Take the worry off your paper work and concentrate on patient work.
Cut down on Carbon Emissions.
Consider Medical Transcription-2 for your transcription work.
Visit http://medicaltranscription-2.com for a GREENER FUTURE
Friday, October 9, 2009
The Future of Medical Transcription
How can we improve our nation's health care?
John A. Halamka M.D. (Chief Information Officer ─ Harvard ─ Affiliated health─Beth - Israel Deaconess Hospital): In our country it is estimated that 144 billion dollars a year is lost because lack of coordination of medical care.
The electronic medial record enables seamless transmission of patient histories, medications and laboratories from doctor to doctor. It's only through Electronic Medical Records ( EMR) that we will receive coordinated care, safe care and cost-effective care.
The American Association Presents Medical Transcription: Ensuring Safe, Quality Cost-Effective Health Care.
Dee Thomas CMT (Owner Thomas Transcription) : I like the fact that we do play a part of the roll of patient's healthcare in the industry.
Some years in high school originally I've thought about being a nurse, but I could not stomach it. But this is a way to make that same contribution but at the same time, well maybe on the backend of that, we make a significant contribution to patient healthcare.
Did the patient have three kimonos or trichomas?
Valli Pillion CMT, FAAMT: When Medical Records (MR), are accurate, both the patients and the doctor are protected.
Dee Thomas: We have physicians who, you know, who didn't get into the profession, because they wanted to dictate in the first place. They get into the profession because they want to take care of patients. So they do this generally and as fast and as quick as they can so they can get back to what they really wanted to do, which is administer patient care.
I'm not always sure if I hear it or I know it from years of experience. But many times we can get the blanks (garbled phrases).
Did the physician say 5,000 or 50,000 units of insulin?
When we catch a problem in the report that's been dictated, we bring that to the attention of the facility or the physician.An example of that would be; we had a report and the physician did actually dictated 50,000 units of insulin. I know it should be 5,000. Anyone with experience in transcribing reports would automatically know it should have been 5,000.
So we would bring that to the attention of the facility, we would make that correction in the report. Now had that report fallen into the hands with someone with less experience, and it may not be caught, and the patient would receive the wrong dosage of medication.
John A. Halamka M.D. : between 0.7 and 7 percent, all hospital patients have a medication error during their stay. MR provides a foundation for the system support that enables us to do drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug – laboratory interactions check so we can provide high quality care.
The American Association for Medical Transcription: Promoting Quality, Certification and Continuing Education for Medical Transcriptionists.
Jefferson Howe CMT, MSA Maine Medical Center: the American Association for Medical Transcription helps it's members by advocation certification, a focus on quality, and a focus on continued learning in this professional environment. It's changing now and its changing fast and we have to be up to speed with where things are going.
Dee Thomas CMT: I think all medical transcriptionists (MT) should be certified. I think there should be a benchmark in every profession. I think we're are one of the few profession in the health care industry where certification is not required and would you just want anyone handling your patient records.
Valli Pillion CMT, FAAMT: Medical Transcriptionists face the same problem that healthcare system as a whole faces. Our mission and our goal are only for MTs to be the best they can be, but our healthcare system to be the best that they can be.
The American Association for Medical Transcription:
Working To Bring Medical Transcription into The future.
Jefferson Howe CMT, MSA: Technology is changing and it's changing faster all the time. The American Association for Medical Transcription absolutely has to help the MT evolve with the EMR to learn and understand their position today, so they can play an interoral part in it.
John A. Halamka M.D. : we have found even with the voice recognition we have found that their not accurate enough, without human intervention. So our challenge has been to use the machines, the best of technology as well as the human brain and MT to bring a quality product.
How is the electronic medical record changing health care delivery?
Jefferson Howe CMT, MSA: the EMR, is probably the most exciting change in my career and it has made exciting to me. I think that we have to ask; what will we do when we have so much EMR everywhere?
What does it mean to Home Health Care Aids, Nursing Homes, and other health care facilities or agencies, pharmacies, physical therapist, when they can plug in and see my health care information at that point?
Be it at home or in the medical environment make better judgments based on what they have at hand.
John A. Halamka M.D. : We have to deliver safe effective care in our hospitals without the support of our Electronic Systems. In fact, two years ago we had a network outage. It lasted about a day and a half.
We went from the hospital of 2002 to the hospital of 1972. It took 100 extra staff, just to deliver the good quality care that we were doing with EMR. They are an essential part of the modern hospital of today.
MTs: An Integral Part in the Health Care System.
Dee Thomas: the record, the transcription that we do is the first line of defense of making sure that that patient receives the health care that he needed. That the hospital facility receives payment for the services that were rendered.
And we ultimately, even though we work in the background, you know, we have done all of the documentation necessary to see that that happens.
John A. Halamka M.D. : the next five years will be very exciting. We'll ensure that doctors have all the information that they need, in an accurate and timely way, anywhere of the information they need even on the internet, with the oversight of MTs ensure it's accuracy.
Valli Pillion CMT, FAAMT: Every time that we catch an error within the dictation, the patient and the doctor benefits. Ironically most of the patients don't know we exist. But we know that we are making a difference within the industry.
For more information please contact the American Association for Medical Transcriptionists. http://www.aamt.org.
John A. Halamka M.D. (Chief Information Officer ─ Harvard ─ Affiliated health─Beth - Israel Deaconess Hospital): In our country it is estimated that 144 billion dollars a year is lost because lack of coordination of medical care.
The electronic medial record enables seamless transmission of patient histories, medications and laboratories from doctor to doctor. It's only through Electronic Medical Records ( EMR) that we will receive coordinated care, safe care and cost-effective care.
The American Association Presents Medical Transcription: Ensuring Safe, Quality Cost-Effective Health Care.
Dee Thomas CMT (Owner Thomas Transcription) : I like the fact that we do play a part of the roll of patient's healthcare in the industry.
Some years in high school originally I've thought about being a nurse, but I could not stomach it. But this is a way to make that same contribution but at the same time, well maybe on the backend of that, we make a significant contribution to patient healthcare.
Did the patient have three kimonos or trichomas?
Valli Pillion CMT, FAAMT: When Medical Records (MR), are accurate, both the patients and the doctor are protected.
Dee Thomas: We have physicians who, you know, who didn't get into the profession, because they wanted to dictate in the first place. They get into the profession because they want to take care of patients. So they do this generally and as fast and as quick as they can so they can get back to what they really wanted to do, which is administer patient care.
I'm not always sure if I hear it or I know it from years of experience. But many times we can get the blanks (garbled phrases).
Did the physician say 5,000 or 50,000 units of insulin?
When we catch a problem in the report that's been dictated, we bring that to the attention of the facility or the physician.An example of that would be; we had a report and the physician did actually dictated 50,000 units of insulin. I know it should be 5,000. Anyone with experience in transcribing reports would automatically know it should have been 5,000.
So we would bring that to the attention of the facility, we would make that correction in the report. Now had that report fallen into the hands with someone with less experience, and it may not be caught, and the patient would receive the wrong dosage of medication.
John A. Halamka M.D. : between 0.7 and 7 percent, all hospital patients have a medication error during their stay. MR provides a foundation for the system support that enables us to do drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug – laboratory interactions check so we can provide high quality care.
The American Association for Medical Transcription: Promoting Quality, Certification and Continuing Education for Medical Transcriptionists.
Jefferson Howe CMT, MSA Maine Medical Center: the American Association for Medical Transcription helps it's members by advocation certification, a focus on quality, and a focus on continued learning in this professional environment. It's changing now and its changing fast and we have to be up to speed with where things are going.
Dee Thomas CMT: I think all medical transcriptionists (MT) should be certified. I think there should be a benchmark in every profession. I think we're are one of the few profession in the health care industry where certification is not required and would you just want anyone handling your patient records.
Valli Pillion CMT, FAAMT: Medical Transcriptionists face the same problem that healthcare system as a whole faces. Our mission and our goal are only for MTs to be the best they can be, but our healthcare system to be the best that they can be.
The American Association for Medical Transcription:
Working To Bring Medical Transcription into The future.
Jefferson Howe CMT, MSA: Technology is changing and it's changing faster all the time. The American Association for Medical Transcription absolutely has to help the MT evolve with the EMR to learn and understand their position today, so they can play an interoral part in it.
John A. Halamka M.D. : we have found even with the voice recognition we have found that their not accurate enough, without human intervention. So our challenge has been to use the machines, the best of technology as well as the human brain and MT to bring a quality product.
How is the electronic medical record changing health care delivery?
Jefferson Howe CMT, MSA: the EMR, is probably the most exciting change in my career and it has made exciting to me. I think that we have to ask; what will we do when we have so much EMR everywhere?
What does it mean to Home Health Care Aids, Nursing Homes, and other health care facilities or agencies, pharmacies, physical therapist, when they can plug in and see my health care information at that point?
Be it at home or in the medical environment make better judgments based on what they have at hand.
John A. Halamka M.D. : We have to deliver safe effective care in our hospitals without the support of our Electronic Systems. In fact, two years ago we had a network outage. It lasted about a day and a half.
We went from the hospital of 2002 to the hospital of 1972. It took 100 extra staff, just to deliver the good quality care that we were doing with EMR. They are an essential part of the modern hospital of today.
MTs: An Integral Part in the Health Care System.
Dee Thomas: the record, the transcription that we do is the first line of defense of making sure that that patient receives the health care that he needed. That the hospital facility receives payment for the services that were rendered.
And we ultimately, even though we work in the background, you know, we have done all of the documentation necessary to see that that happens.
John A. Halamka M.D. : the next five years will be very exciting. We'll ensure that doctors have all the information that they need, in an accurate and timely way, anywhere of the information they need even on the internet, with the oversight of MTs ensure it's accuracy.
Valli Pillion CMT, FAAMT: Every time that we catch an error within the dictation, the patient and the doctor benefits. Ironically most of the patients don't know we exist. But we know that we are making a difference within the industry.
For more information please contact the American Association for Medical Transcriptionists. http://www.aamt.org.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Medical Transcription Jobs No Exprience Tips
New just graduated, looking for work or a job placement, everyone wants one or two years experience, some want 10 years experience. Where do you start if you just graduated and no experience? There are a few companies that offer on-the-job training. Use "medical transcription internships" as keywords in the browser search engine to find jobs in this categories. Some of them have a requirement of above average grammar skills and typing skills.
You could search for employment from another Medical Transcriptionist (MT) that is willing to sub-contract their work and is in desperate need for overflow help and do not mind helping you. But you will take some of their time up because she will have to proof read your reports.
The next thing to do is call your local hospitals, Dr.'s offices, clinics and ask about an internship program. Sometimes this means working for free to get experience.
Attend your local MT chapter meetings to get insights on working and finding work or a job placement with no experience. This may also help you figure out what kind of MT you want to be. There are several options when being a MT; self-employed, working in a hospital, working in a doctor's office, or a clinic with a group of doctors.
The other options of being a MT is specialization, what area you want to work or just generalized dictations. You could have your own home based business.
Don't give up hope there is plenty of work out there, the trick is how to fine work. While looking for work make sure you keep up with your practice in typing and listening skills. Practice makes perfect.
If you are lucky enough there are jobs out there that is willing to train you. Always keep in mind that pay will be very low until you gain experience.
Whatever you choose make sure that is the way you want to go. Do research online consider visiting Medical transcription sites and read about them and what is required.
Finally there is the medical secretary job, you will need to have basic skills to be hired as a secretary and medical terminology. You will need proper medical reference books, dictation to accuracy and a fair amount of speed will help.
Here is a free magazine that you can sign up and receive the online version or the paper magazine here.
Here are more MT Web sites:
* MedWord.com has information on careers and certification in medical transcription.
* Medical Transcription Dailyy covers pretty much everything on medical transcription; education, resources, etc.
* MTJobs provides MT services to the Department of Veteran Affairs. Uses home based MTs but you must have experience. (you might get lucky and find one that will accept you)
Good luck in all your endeavors.
You could search for employment from another Medical Transcriptionist (MT) that is willing to sub-contract their work and is in desperate need for overflow help and do not mind helping you. But you will take some of their time up because she will have to proof read your reports.
The next thing to do is call your local hospitals, Dr.'s offices, clinics and ask about an internship program. Sometimes this means working for free to get experience.
Attend your local MT chapter meetings to get insights on working and finding work or a job placement with no experience. This may also help you figure out what kind of MT you want to be. There are several options when being a MT; self-employed, working in a hospital, working in a doctor's office, or a clinic with a group of doctors.
The other options of being a MT is specialization, what area you want to work or just generalized dictations. You could have your own home based business.
Don't give up hope there is plenty of work out there, the trick is how to fine work. While looking for work make sure you keep up with your practice in typing and listening skills. Practice makes perfect.
If you are lucky enough there are jobs out there that is willing to train you. Always keep in mind that pay will be very low until you gain experience.
Whatever you choose make sure that is the way you want to go. Do research online consider visiting Medical transcription sites and read about them and what is required.
Finally there is the medical secretary job, you will need to have basic skills to be hired as a secretary and medical terminology. You will need proper medical reference books, dictation to accuracy and a fair amount of speed will help.
Here is a free magazine that you can sign up and receive the online version or the paper magazine here.
Here are more MT Web sites:
* MedWord.com has information on careers and certification in medical transcription.
* Medical Transcription Dailyy covers pretty much everything on medical transcription; education, resources, etc.
* MTJobs provides MT services to the Department of Veteran Affairs. Uses home based MTs but you must have experience. (you might get lucky and find one that will accept you)
Good luck in all your endeavors.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Medical Records and Health Information Technicians
Every time nurses or physicians treat their patients, they create records of what they have seen and done. Such as the results of x-rays and examinations or diagnoses and treatment plans. Medical Record Technicians are basically archivist who performs the important task of organizing and maintaining the medical documents.
Doctors and Nurses depend on the work of the Medical Records Technicians, who work hard behind the scenes, actively ensuring that all medical records and forms are all properly identified, signed and kept on file.
Anyone interested in this career should be prepared to work at a computer, for long periods. Since computer programs are used to manage and analyze the ever increasing amount of medical information.
The accuracy of all this information is very important. Medical Records Technicians must pay strict attention to details. This career offers satisfaction only in the challenges that arise on a daily basis, but also in the knowledge that Medical Records Technicians are helping provide high quality patient care.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
HOW TO STAY SANE WORKING AT HOME
It’s great working at home, being your own boss, but for some people it’s not what they expected.
I’ve heard several people say they get lonely and miss being around work associates; others find it hard to stay disciplined, or they just find working
at home boring. I personally don’t find it to be any of those things myself and love working at home doing medical transcription, but everybody’s different.
Some people are almost forced to work at home, such as disabled people, single moms that can’t afford daycare, or don’t want to put their children in daycare. For these people that didn’t necessarily choose a home career it can be quite depressing.
For those that chose to work at home, and don’t want to change that part of it, often times another problem arises. It can be called, “wearing all the hats syndrome”. Not only do you run a business and play manager, employee, billing clerk, sales person, inventory manager, etc., with a home business, you might find yourself cleaning the house, taking care of the kids, cooking meals,folding clothes, running errands, and paying bills, all during working hours. This problem tends to arise when there is no set work routine. It leaves one feeling overwhelmed
on a daily basis.
To really enjoy a home business and keep yourself sane, it’s necessary to establish business hours and a routine. It’s best to get dressed every day at a
reasonable hour, otherwise you find the whole day’s gone and you’re still in your night clothes. It’s great to be able to do that, it’s just not good to do it. You can bet the doorbell will ring on the days you slack off on this one!
Give yourself a lunch break and try to eat healthy. It’s so easy working from home to walk by the fridge every thirty minutes and get a snack. Soon your body expects to be fed every couple of hours,
just like a newborn. Not a good thing, especially when you start packing on the pounds.
Try to get some fresh air every single day. It’s not good to get out of the house only once or twice a week. When you feel mentally happy and healthy, you will be able to stay sane with a home business.
Remember, working at home can be harder than
working outside the home. It’s all up to you how your business turns out; it’s a lot of responsibility. So, try not to stress yourself unnecessarily.
Use phone time wisely. Enough said…
As far as housework goes, and all that other stuff that messes up your work day, I found something that works and may work for you. I get up and get showered and dressed and then I spend about an hour cleaning the house. I’m usually ready to sit down and start work around nine, but if it’s ten o’clock that’s fine too.
Routine, routine, routine, is the key to being successful and staying sane while working at home.
(c) 2004 - Michele Miller
Medical transcription at home is a wonderful home-based business. Let me show you how to start your own successful medical transcription typing service visit: http://www.medical-transcription-at-home.com
I’ve heard several people say they get lonely and miss being around work associates; others find it hard to stay disciplined, or they just find working
at home boring. I personally don’t find it to be any of those things myself and love working at home doing medical transcription, but everybody’s different.
Some people are almost forced to work at home, such as disabled people, single moms that can’t afford daycare, or don’t want to put their children in daycare. For these people that didn’t necessarily choose a home career it can be quite depressing.
For those that chose to work at home, and don’t want to change that part of it, often times another problem arises. It can be called, “wearing all the hats syndrome”. Not only do you run a business and play manager, employee, billing clerk, sales person, inventory manager, etc., with a home business, you might find yourself cleaning the house, taking care of the kids, cooking meals,folding clothes, running errands, and paying bills, all during working hours. This problem tends to arise when there is no set work routine. It leaves one feeling overwhelmed
on a daily basis.
To really enjoy a home business and keep yourself sane, it’s necessary to establish business hours and a routine. It’s best to get dressed every day at a
reasonable hour, otherwise you find the whole day’s gone and you’re still in your night clothes. It’s great to be able to do that, it’s just not good to do it. You can bet the doorbell will ring on the days you slack off on this one!
Give yourself a lunch break and try to eat healthy. It’s so easy working from home to walk by the fridge every thirty minutes and get a snack. Soon your body expects to be fed every couple of hours,
just like a newborn. Not a good thing, especially when you start packing on the pounds.
Try to get some fresh air every single day. It’s not good to get out of the house only once or twice a week. When you feel mentally happy and healthy, you will be able to stay sane with a home business.
Remember, working at home can be harder than
working outside the home. It’s all up to you how your business turns out; it’s a lot of responsibility. So, try not to stress yourself unnecessarily.
Use phone time wisely. Enough said…
As far as housework goes, and all that other stuff that messes up your work day, I found something that works and may work for you. I get up and get showered and dressed and then I spend about an hour cleaning the house. I’m usually ready to sit down and start work around nine, but if it’s ten o’clock that’s fine too.
Routine, routine, routine, is the key to being successful and staying sane while working at home.
(c) 2004 - Michele Miller
Medical transcription at home is a wonderful home-based business. Let me show you how to start your own successful medical transcription typing service visit: http://www.medical-transcription-at-home.com
Friday, May 15, 2009
Getting Typing and Transcription Work
Copyright © 2008 Leva Duell
Do you want to get typing work? Consider transcription.
Transcription can provide you with many hours of typing work. Transcription is simply typing what's dictated.
You don't need to be a medical transcriptionist to provide transcription services. When speaking about transcription, people think about medical transcription.
In addition to medical professionals, a wide range of individuals and organizations outsource transcription services. Your clients may include insurance companies, universities, financial institutions, authors of books, consultants, focus groups and public speakers.
Business transcription does not require any knowledge of medical terminology.
If you are a business transcriptionist, medical transcriptionist, legal transcriptionist, be aware of the growing popularity of digital dictation and transcription. Although the majority of physicians and businesses are still using tapes to record dictation, many are starting to use digital voice recorders.
To provide transcription services, you will need a transcription machine. Transcribers have a headset and foot pedal that allows you to stop and rewind the cassette with your feet while having your hands available for typing.
Traditional audio tape transcription includes standard cassette transcription, micro cassette and mini tape transcription. These are typically referred to as cassette transcription or tape transcription. Until you have a client, you won't know which size cassettes you'll need. Talk to your prospective clients before buying any transcription equipment.
Digital transcription is becoming more popular and can provide you with additional typing work from long-distance clients who are looking for transcriptionists to perform transcription work from home.
Here's how digital dictation and transcription works: Your clients dictate into a handheld digital voice recorder, upload the files from their recorder to their computer with a USB cable, send an email message to a transcriptionist, and attach the digital files.
Digital transcription has many benefits for the transcriptionists. The audio quality is usually much better than tapes. You can move easier and faster to specific places in the dictation and you have more control over the playback speed. You don't have to deal with pick-up and delivery of tapes.
When the medical transcriptionists receive the email, they can open the file and bring it into their computer with specialized software. They can convert the digital file to different formats, but the most popular file format is the "wav" format.
Specialized transcription software and a foot pedal allow the transcriptionist to move through the digital voice file just like you do when transcribing from a tape. After transcribing the files, the transcriptionist emails the finished work back to the client as an attachment.
The foot pedal is connected to your computer through the USB or serial port. A foot pedal that comes with a tape transcriber will not work. You also need an Internet connection, an email account, and a word processing software program such as Microsoft Word that will work with your digital file transcribing system.
Some foot pedals have the ability to convert files recorded on almost every type of digital handheld recorder. This allows you to perform transcription work for many clients, regardless of the type of digital voice recorder they use.
If you are not looking into transcription work, you may miss opportunities to typing work from home on a contract basis.
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Signature/Resource Box
Looking for transcription work from home?
Find out what marketing methods have proven to work
for successful secretarial services and transcription services.
Visit http://www.startasecretarialbusiness.com
Do you want to get typing work? Consider transcription.
Transcription can provide you with many hours of typing work. Transcription is simply typing what's dictated.
You don't need to be a medical transcriptionist to provide transcription services. When speaking about transcription, people think about medical transcription.
In addition to medical professionals, a wide range of individuals and organizations outsource transcription services. Your clients may include insurance companies, universities, financial institutions, authors of books, consultants, focus groups and public speakers.
Business transcription does not require any knowledge of medical terminology.
If you are a business transcriptionist, medical transcriptionist, legal transcriptionist, be aware of the growing popularity of digital dictation and transcription. Although the majority of physicians and businesses are still using tapes to record dictation, many are starting to use digital voice recorders.
To provide transcription services, you will need a transcription machine. Transcribers have a headset and foot pedal that allows you to stop and rewind the cassette with your feet while having your hands available for typing.
Traditional audio tape transcription includes standard cassette transcription, micro cassette and mini tape transcription. These are typically referred to as cassette transcription or tape transcription. Until you have a client, you won't know which size cassettes you'll need. Talk to your prospective clients before buying any transcription equipment.
Digital transcription is becoming more popular and can provide you with additional typing work from long-distance clients who are looking for transcriptionists to perform transcription work from home.
Here's how digital dictation and transcription works: Your clients dictate into a handheld digital voice recorder, upload the files from their recorder to their computer with a USB cable, send an email message to a transcriptionist, and attach the digital files.
Digital transcription has many benefits for the transcriptionists. The audio quality is usually much better than tapes. You can move easier and faster to specific places in the dictation and you have more control over the playback speed. You don't have to deal with pick-up and delivery of tapes.
When the medical transcriptionists receive the email, they can open the file and bring it into their computer with specialized software. They can convert the digital file to different formats, but the most popular file format is the "wav" format.
Specialized transcription software and a foot pedal allow the transcriptionist to move through the digital voice file just like you do when transcribing from a tape. After transcribing the files, the transcriptionist emails the finished work back to the client as an attachment.
The foot pedal is connected to your computer through the USB or serial port. A foot pedal that comes with a tape transcriber will not work. You also need an Internet connection, an email account, and a word processing software program such as Microsoft Word that will work with your digital file transcribing system.
Some foot pedals have the ability to convert files recorded on almost every type of digital handheld recorder. This allows you to perform transcription work for many clients, regardless of the type of digital voice recorder they use.
If you are not looking into transcription work, you may miss opportunities to typing work from home on a contract basis.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signature/Resource Box
Looking for transcription work from home?
Find out what marketing methods have proven to work
for successful secretarial services and transcription services.
Visit http://www.startasecretarialbusiness.com
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The Real Truth of What It's Like to B A Medical Transcriptionist
Every day someone else I talk to brings up the current economic crisis and how they're scared they or their spouse is going to get laid off next, and then what'll they do? The bills, the mortgage, the child care just won't wait.
Medical Transcription is a great business, because you will always have work. This is a service that will be here for a good while. You can work from home or work outside of the home.
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Medical Transcription is a great business, because you will always have work. This is a service that will be here for a good while. You can work from home or work outside of the home.
For more infromation
Start Your Own Medical Transcription Home Business
A lot of people think about starting their own business, but don't know where to begin. Others worry about failure. You don't have to worry with medical transcription because you can start small and build up your business at your own pace, in your spare time. You don't have to give up a job to start medical transcription at home if you don't want to. That's what is so nice about it.
There's plenty of work for everyone. Find the best transcription course or school, and teach you how to get a medical transcription job or start your own company. With the right training you can be running your own business in a short amount of time. Ongoing FREE email and phone consults with no time limit, to get you where you need to be.
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There's plenty of work for everyone. Find the best transcription course or school, and teach you how to get a medical transcription job or start your own company. With the right training you can be running your own business in a short amount of time. Ongoing FREE email and phone consults with no time limit, to get you where you need to be.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Imagine all the benefits of working at home:
Spend more time with your family!
Raise your own children - no more daycare!
Have freedom to set your own hours!
Nobody looking over your shoulder!
No long, costly commutes to the office!
No need for expensive daycare!
If working at home is a "must" for you, please consider choosing medical transcription career training. People become motivated about medical transcription for many different reasons; they become MTs so they can work from home, earn great income, avoid long commutes and costly daycare, have job security in a growing market, or enjoy more quality time with family. Whatever your personal reasons for looking into medical transcription, know that Career Step is your best resource for training, assistance, and support to prepare you to confidently step into a new career as a medical transcriptionist. Unless you have had the advantage of working from your home, you cannot imagine the FREEDOM that such a lifestyle gives you!
You can look at a free demo to see if Medical Transcription is for you.
Raise your own children - no more daycare!
Have freedom to set your own hours!
Nobody looking over your shoulder!
No long, costly commutes to the office!
No need for expensive daycare!
If working at home is a "must" for you, please consider choosing medical transcription career training. People become motivated about medical transcription for many different reasons; they become MTs so they can work from home, earn great income, avoid long commutes and costly daycare, have job security in a growing market, or enjoy more quality time with family. Whatever your personal reasons for looking into medical transcription, know that Career Step is your best resource for training, assistance, and support to prepare you to confidently step into a new career as a medical transcriptionist. Unless you have had the advantage of working from your home, you cannot imagine the FREEDOM that such a lifestyle gives you!
You can look at a free demo to see if Medical Transcription is for you.
Imagine all the benefits of working at home
Spend more time with your family!
Raise your own children - no more daycare!
Have freedom to set your own hours!
Nobody looking over your shoulder!
No long, costly commutes to the office!
No need for expensive daycare!
If working at home is a "must" for you, please consider choosing medical transcription career training. People become motivated about medical transcription for many different reasons; they become MTs so they can work from home, earn great income, avoid long commutes and costly daycare, have job security in a growing market, or enjoy more quality time with family. Whatever your personal reasons for looking into medical transcription, know that Career Step is your best resource for training, assistance, and support to prepare you to confidently step into a new career as a medical transcriptionist. Unless you have had the advantage of working from your home, you cannot imagine the FREEDOM that such a lifestyle gives you!
You can look at a free demo to see if Medical Transcription is for you.
Raise your own children - no more daycare!
Have freedom to set your own hours!
Nobody looking over your shoulder!
No long, costly commutes to the office!
No need for expensive daycare!
If working at home is a "must" for you, please consider choosing medical transcription career training. People become motivated about medical transcription for many different reasons; they become MTs so they can work from home, earn great income, avoid long commutes and costly daycare, have job security in a growing market, or enjoy more quality time with family. Whatever your personal reasons for looking into medical transcription, know that Career Step is your best resource for training, assistance, and support to prepare you to confidently step into a new career as a medical transcriptionist. Unless you have had the advantage of working from your home, you cannot imagine the FREEDOM that such a lifestyle gives you!
You can look at a free demo to see if Medical Transcription is for you.
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