Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Career Expansion Opportunities For Transcriptionists

By : Ajay Prasad

The services of transcription are majorly used in the law, medicine and nowadays in the education sector. There is a huge demand for these services because of the degree and accuracy of information these hold. These services keep record of the cases and events for future reference or use.

Transcription is considered to be very important in the medical field. A medical transcriptionist deals with making entries of reports and other data regarding the patient and healthcare facilities. A foot pedal is made use of while the transcriptionist listens and types the dictated recordings such as reports about the medical history of the patient, physical examination of the patient, reports on consultations, autopsies and operations. The transcriptionist sends the recorded reports to the specialists and professionals for any correction and approval.

Medical transcriptionists are expected to know the medical terms and the procedures for diagnoses along with the basic knowledge on physiology, pharmacology and anatomy. These transcriptionists have to have the basic information about the medical terminology. The work requires ethical values on the part of the transcriptionists to deal with the profile of the patients with utter confidentiality.

There has been an increase in the career opportunities for the transcriptionists over the years. An increase in the population and health problems has contributed to this increase. There is an expected expansion in the career opportunities because of the necessity of electronic documentation. More number of medical transcriptionists will be employed to keep a track of the medical history and profiles of the patients. They will be required to edit and check the records for factual and grammatical errors.

With technology being used in the medical sector for transcription now, there are some chances of occurrence of errors. The technology of speech-recognition helps in recording the medical data and reports to the computers in the form of electronic document. As a software is at risk to having flaws, there are chances of errors in recognition and evaluation of the voice or speech. In cases, where the transcription services have been contracted to other countries, there are risks of evaluating the data and records even though they are made in the English language as the language differs in pronunciation and accent all over the world. To combat such errors in the technology by keeping a check on them, there will be a need for transcriptionists who could avoid the errors and manage the whole system in such a way that a proper, fault-less document could be readied.

Though the expansion of opportunities at hospitals is not likely to go at the high speed as in various other fields but there is a demand and much needed expansion in the offices of the physicians and many health specialists for getting an accurate and standard record medical data for future use.

With globalization, there has been a creation of new job opportunities in the law industry for the law transcriptionists for various tasks such as drafting the legal instruments and recording the legal cases. Outsourcing and growth in various industries have expanded the space the work zone creating new opportunities for people to get into transcription jobs.

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