A medical transcriptionist is a health professional who converts a physician’s medical report from a hand-written or voice-recorded format to a digital text format. It is a big industry in Western countries such as USA and Britain. In fact, it is a $30 billion industry in the USA.
Outsourcing medical transcriptionist is one way for health companies and private physicians to slash down their expenses. Medical transcriptionists in developing countries in Asia receive a monthly salary that equals only the daily salary of a medical transcriptionist based in a hospital in the USA.
When a patient sees their doctor, the doctor looks at their medical records. Before the advancement of medical transcription industry and internet technology, these medical records are stored in filing cabinets. Today, the filing cabinets are thrown out and the central computer servers are used.
After the physician examines their patient, the physician will call a number that is connected to the server of the medical transcriptionist office offshore. The physician records his findings and recommendations to the recording machine of the phone. The medical transcriptionist offshore downloads this voice date and put the data into the electronic database.
Outsourcing medical transcriptionist is very popular among American physicians. They prefer transcriptionists based in the Philippines because the English language skills of transcriptionists from the Philippines is above-average.
They can also pick up American slang and idioms because of affinity with the American culture having been colonized by the Americans for more than 40 years. They are also hardworking, have good attitude and have good customer service skills. Outsourcing medical transcriptionist in the Philippines is the first choice of majority of physicians in the USA.
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