I’m living in Colombo,Sri lanka. I’m a Degree holder in bachelor in Unani medicine and surgery (University of Colombo). I’m interesting to learn Medical Transcription because Medical Transcription is one of the sunrises in BPO industry with immense growth opportunities and is an interesting, challenging and paying career. This industry is facing some very peculiar circumstances regarding skilled manpower, which entails some challenging problems. The MT industry’s major bottleneck is lack of quality Medical Transcriptionists. An informal observation of the industry itself will show some obvious signs of huge demand supply gap for productive Medical Transcriptionists. Medical Transcription is one of the fastest-growing fields in health care. I can play a vital role in health care delivery by creating clear, readable medical documents from doctors’ audiotaped patient notes. These documents will be used for medical care, medical recordkeeping, insurance reimbursement, and, in some cases, legal proceedings.
With experience, medical transcriptionists can advance to supervisory positions, medical transcription jobs at home, editing, consulting, or teaching. Some become owners of medical transcription businesses. With additional education or training, some become medical records and health information technicians, medical coders, or medical records and health information administrators. Employment of online medical transcriptionist jobs are projected to grow 14 percent from 2006 to 2016, faster than the average for all occupations. Demand for medical transcription services will be spurred by a growing and aging population. Older age groups receive proportionately greater numbers of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that require documentation. A high level of demand for transcription services also will be sustained by the continued need for electronic documentation that can be shared easily among providers, third-party payers, regulators, consumers, and health information systems. Growing numbers of medical transcriptionists will be needed to amend patients’ records, edit documents from speech recognition systems, and identify discrepancies in medical reports.
Contracting out transcription work overseas and advancements in speech recognition technology are not expected to significantly reduce the need for well-trained medical transcriptionists. Outsourcing transcription work abroad—to countries such as India, Pakistan, Philippines, and the Caribbean—has grown more popular as transmitting confidential health information over the Internet has become more secure; however, the demand for overseas transcription services is expected only to supplement the demand for well-trained domestic medical transcriptionists. In addition, reports transcribed by overseas medical transcription services usually require editing for accuracy by domestic medical transcriptionists before they meet U.S. quality standards. Speech-recognition technology allows physicians and other health professionals to dictate medical reports to a computer that immediately creates an electronic document. SN:0MA9N2ESY
In spite of the advances in this technology, the software has been slow to grasp and analyze the human voice and the English language, and the medical vernacular with all its diversity. As a result, there will continue to be a need for skilled medical transcriptionists to identify and appropriately edit the inevitable errors created by speech recognition systems, and to create a final document. Job opportunities will be good, especially for those who are certified. Hospitals will continue to employ a large percentage of medical transcriptionists, but job growth there will not be as fast as in other industries. An increasing demand for standardized records should result in rapid employment growth in physicians’ offices, especially in large group practices.