What is Medical Transcription?

Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals into text format.Medical transcription is the typing of medical notes, which are dictated by a physician, nurse, or other health care worker to keep as reference and permanent record of a patient's care. And how many hours does it takes? This depends on the physician and how many patients a day he sees, and how long the reports are. You can find some accounts which will only take an hour or two a day, and some that will take 4-5 hours.

It varies. How does the work get delivered to the doctor? I think most medical transcriptionists deliver the work to the office still, but there are many that send the work via modem back to the doctor's office How much does it cost to get the equipment to do this type of work? This varies of course, but generally, start up costs including the cost of a computer and transcription machine and necessary books, can actually be as low as $200.00. An older second hand computer can be purchased nowadays for as little as $100.00, and a transcriber can bepurchased on an internet auction for pennies on the dollar.

These are your two main purchases. You can of course spend several thousand dollars if you want to. Is this a legitimate business? Yes. Medical transcription at home is a legitimate business. It is not a scam. You do have to find your own work, but I never found that difficult to do. Once you get an account, they usually stay with you, so you are not out pounding the pavement looking for work every month. Why are you selling this book? I enjoy helping people, and felt knowledgeable enough about medical transcription to write a manual about it. It saved me writing notes over and over again for all the people I help, including those that take an internship program through my company.

I enjoy the Internet and building websites for myself as a hobby, and this seemed the perfect way to get the book out to help even more people. I do make a profit of course, for all my work, but I try to keep my prices reasonable. I've never downloaded an ebook, is it difficult? No, it's not difficult. It's really just like saving a file to your computer. There are full instructions on the How to Download page. Will you help me with the download if I run into problems? Yes, I will try to help you via email Will you help me get work? No, I cannot help you get work, but I show you how to do it.