Using Dragon Medical for Transcriptionists

For a long time, our Medical Transcription clients – those wonderful, hard-working folks who keep the patient paperwork flowing – have wondered aloud to us how speech recognition might help them reduce turnaround time and increase business volume.

Today, we can say, we have the answer, thanks to a couple of incredible MT's who proved what we had suspected all along: that Dragon Medical 10.1 could be a time-saving, carpal-tunnel syndrome ending tool for the busy MT, while NOT requiring doctors to do their dictation any differently than they do now.

Basically, it works like this: the MT receives the digital voice recording from the doctor and plays it with their footswitch as usual. However, now they listen to the doctor in their speech recognition headset and re-dictate into the microphone while Dragon types it for them in their word processor. In this manner, the MT can add punctuation, correct grammatical errors, format the output, etc, almost entirely by using their voice.

The biggest hurdle is akin to walking and chewing gum: listening to a dictation, then repeating it in a more "Dragon-friendly" way.

The doctor, as we said earlier, dictates just as before. In fact, unless they're informed, the physician will never know the MT is improving efficiency using Dragon Medical.

For more information on how this can decrease turnaround by as much as 50%, call us at 866-408-1383. We have Dragon Medical 10.1 in stock, and can provide a low-cost training program to get you up and running in no time.

Medical Transcriptionists Are An Essential Part of Health Care

Medical transcriptionists continue to be an essential part of the health care industry despite all the technological advances introduced to the field. This is due to the fact that computer cannot dictate. Also, voice recognition technology still cannot accurately read the human voice for all spoken words. It still takes a doctor a long time to teach a computer to be able to recognize their speech, and time is something doctors cannot spare. The accuracy and detail required in medical transcription means there will continue to be careers in medical transcription for years to come. 

Digital medical transcription is also allowing many new transcrioptionists to work out of their homes. This is leading to a large increase in MT's around the country. In fact, the medical transcription career field is projected to grow faster than average for all occupations though 2014. 

This increase is also due to the fact that HIPAA regulations require all hospitals to convert medical records to digital format.

Medical transcriptionists are just as much involved in the medical treatment of patients as the doctors are. Accurate medical records are key to a patients success when recovering from an illness or injury. Medical transcription degrees can be obtained by completing courses at a medical transcription school. Once you have completed a degree and gained experience, you can specialize in a specific medical practice in order to improve your chances of increasing your income as an MT.