Transcription Services - US Based Transcribers

Welcome to The Transcriptionists’ Profiles, a series of interviews with people who are working as transcriptionists. My name is Archie, the author/administrator of Transcriptionist Hub. In this article, I will feature my interview with Marian. Welcome Marian to the interview. Thank you for taking interest of this opportunity. Marian : Thank you Archie : To start, can you please tell me your current designation or level as a transcriptionist? (e.g. senior MT)? What is your location? Where are you presently connected? Marian : I do not have an experience as a Transcriptionist, but I have worked as Legal Secretary for 7 years. My typing skills would be an advantage to the this position. I am residing in Pasay City . Archie : How long have you been working as a transcriptionist? How did you start in this profession? What are the factors that prompted you to pursue a career in this field? Marian : Like I have mentioned earlier, I do not have an experience as a Transcriptionist but I am will...

Here at The Transcriptionists Profiles, a series of interviews with people who are working as transcriptionists, we feature all individuals who have somewhat inclination with doing audio transcription.  A student for example is another person who can work as audio transcriptionist. I once interviewed this first year law student at Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan.  She was a former Business Transcriber and had transcribed a multitude of audio and video files ranging from business conferences to movies.  At that time, she resigned from her job to concentrate on her studies. She just used the best skills that she has and went for the job that best suited what she got. Since typing and listening is one of her strongest factors, she went with transcribing since it also pays well and not to mention lets you gain some insights from others in the outside world. She immediately applied when a job posting for a transcriptionist was posted and worked there for 6 months before resigning. She h...

I asked this question to Yahoo Answers, and this is the only answer I get. In medical transcription, you are transcribing reports for healthcare professionals particularly doctors, depending on conditions. The hard part will be, for instance, if you do clinic account it will be easy because more than five doctors can be the assigned to you. Style Guide is also simple in doing medical transcription and adapting with doctors is also relaxed. In a hospital setting, you should have lot of experience to do those voice files. General transcription is an extremely tough work when you compare with medical transcription. Why? Because in medical transcription, if a patient comes with a specific disease, the file will be discussed regarding that disease only. In general transcription, the dictators or doctors speakers can use a number of relations. There is also fast dictation and in some voice files more than one speakers will be there in one voice file. There is a large chance of misperception....

Is there really a career growth working in voice transcription? I had a chance interviewing a shift manager for a US based transcription company. At that time, he was working on weekends in transcription provider of recovery database network. He was basically editing voice transcription. Back in May 2006, he was invited to take a vacation by a friend who was then a shift manager for a data company in US. He was encouraged to try voice transcription. A day after, he applied as a trainee. After two weeks, he was employed as a part time home based transcriptionist. In June 2007, he was then promoted to shift manager. Given a chance, he would like to work as home based voice transcriptionist because he wanted to maximize the use of his Internet service. It is also more convenient working home based than commuting to and from to work. He prefers to do general voice transcription. He has been doing business transcription for four years at that time. He states that to become an effective tran...

Is it really necessary to become a fast typist when working as an audio transcriptionist? You foot pedal is a big help, bu here’s what most people would think. Majority of people when asked their understanding of the work of an audio transcriptionist would say that you need to be a fast typist. This is true to many people. I once had an interview with an audio transcriptionist who was working home based at that time, and he was a fast typist. At that time, he had a one year experience as a general transcriptionist and 4 months experience as a legal transcriptionist. He was an editor with his previous work. He had been working as a home-based transcriptionist for one year. Since he can type fast which was around 70-85 words per minute, he immediately thought of working as transcriptionist. He then looked for jobs online as a home-based transcriptionist. At first it was difficult for him since he had no formal training, but after a month he started to love this kind of profession. The fa...

Accuracy in medical transcription is so imperative in a way that the medical transcriptionist deals with patient’s lives in a circuitous manner. Working as a medical transcriptionist, it is essential to provide 99% accuracy not just to give approval to the healthcare provider but most importantly to guarantee that the patient is given the proper care. As an allied medical professional, it is the responsibility of a medical transcriptionist to provide quality healthcare by means of transcribing accurately the reports, instructions, and other vital records made by the healthcare providers. Basically, we are dealing with patient’s records, details, information and documents that are very essential in serving as a basis for these health care providers to come up with the proper planning, intervention and evaluation of care. Like any other health care profession, there are no room for mistakes that is why 99% accuracy must be achieved and regarding this, a medical transcriptionist must be ...

Near 100% accuracy is very vital when you are work as a medical transcriptionist. It is a critical job because you’re not just translating your medical dictation into text documents. You’re accountable for transcribing health care records of patients, and these reports must be protected as per HIPAA. It provides a source or a baseline for patient’s advancement on treatments in a hospital. Committing errors in your transcription means you’re putting at risk the patient’s health, and it may lead to any grave situation or even death. As a medical transcriptionist, your primary objective is to guarantee the patient’s medical reports are transcribed accurately as per your doctor’s recorded dictation. You must follow the guidelines being set for transcribing medical records. You must also update your knowledge and practices in transcription all types of specialties. We are not just handling and transcribing medical record s then submit all these to our client doctors. In order for you to rea...