Future of Medical Transcription

[Caracarisma]

The AAMT (now ADHI) stabbed American transcriptionists in the back by backing and then certifying offshore transcriptionists. EMR is killing this industry and putting tens of thousands of MTs out of work. The ADHI is full of crap.

[PennaPlanum]

I'd have to call that doctor and send him a new recorder and a bag to spit his mouth marbles out into. : )

[biensidhe]

Beth-Israel DEACONIST Hospital?  How embarrassing.

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[RaineyWM]

What level math does this degree require?

[suraneni139]

You can see andhrascribe site for home based medical transcription training and jobs or send a mail to andhrascribe@yahoo.com

[aedsell]

5,000 units of insulin still seems high. 50 seems like a huge number, but possible.

[jbbushway]

I cannot believe the that anyone is still promoting this industry...It is dead. I would not recommend anyone going into this field. The pay has not changed in the 8 years I have been doing it and they keep demanding more and more lines. NOW there is voice recognition and so the need for transcriptionists is becoming nonexistent. Don't anyone fall for their line of BS and waste your money. Oh yeah...I am still paying on a school loan I took out for this 8 years ago!

[jbbushway]

There is NO FUTURE for medical transcriptionists. Don't be sucked into their lies.

[hangelbel]

Hi.

Great Video you have there.Keep it up. Hope to watch more of your videos in future time,

Hangelbel

[frananne58]

This is a joke and should be illegal. They are just trying to engage some "suckers" who believe this crap so as a few people to go behind the VR (for zip I might add) until the need for humans is completely eliminated. Please research this very, very well.

[MomWith2Kidsincolleg]

my email address is transcriptioninformation@yahoo­. The companies I have on my list, one of which I work for, have contracts with hospitals/clinics. They also offer benefits like medical insurance, paid vacation, etc. I can tell how to get started and what you will need. Connie

[CHINTU68007]

@MomWith2Kidsincolleg Hey , I am interested in Home Based Medical Transcription. I have 5 years experience. I am from India. Plzz...give me some home based work.

[MomWith2Kidsincolleg]

Contact me I can help you find out how to work from home. I have done it from home since 2003. You can be paid while being trained. Email me. Connie

[vanitystarr1]

how do they type when the screen keeps moving?

[aedsell]

@vanitystarr1 It doesn't really move like that. that is an anomoly of watching a computer screen ON a computer screen.

[maineladydi]

Undoubtedly,this woman was "certified" when MTs were grandfathered. I was a CMT and it's a total ripoff.

[cyncyn0824]

As a MT and owner of my own small MT company, I can attest to the fact that EMR seems to be a far bigger threat than VR. One of my main clients (still a client, by the way) went to EMR several years ago, and I saw my income from that group decline by 96 percent. Ultimately there will be NO MTs. There may be "medical text editors" or some other permutation, but I do not see MT as a viable profession 10 years from now (if not sooner).

[PSJ71]

I have to say, in 2004/2005, I invested a lot of time AND money to be trained in this field, and I really wish I would have done a lot more research. I would have gone into billing or coding. It's hard to stay chained to your computer and make decent money. Working from home is great, but it's really not worth the headache.

[phenomenon717]

I have to do a report on this career for my medical class.

Christ this job SUCKS!!

[addthefool]

I have been an MT for 8 years, working for an offshore company based in India, here too the prospects are dully and gloomy, the wage scale remains flat, thought wages in other domestic sectors have gone steep hill, i am not considering to quit my profession, as i think, there is no growth beyond a limit

[qasl1234]

I have heard that they are trying to phase out medical transcription. Most of the MTs I have talked to say that they have to drop their wages significantly just to remain competative. There is offshoring, not to mention advanced technology threatening their jobs.

[cuivre1]

Listen to what she is listening to and transcribing--and tell me that you can make a fortune being paid by the line. And this voice is a native son, not an immigrant who does not care to assimilate. Transcription has changed from being an intellectual challenge to job hell. Despite extensive experience and credentials, on production I am earning about 60% of what I did in 2000.

[itsmew4u]

im an MT for 3 years. most likely i am learning nursing for 2 years and become an enrolled nurse Insha'Allah.

[Shabbir27]

love u chand,

kithay la liya dil ja ke

[nicklhyn27]

were can i find an example of medical transcription voice?please i nid it

[iEatDeadDeer]

What is it?

[navigatebystars]

You may also need to learn to spell and punctuate correctly. No offense intended, but if you want to try this out, I think you'd better really love and know English inside and out.

[jed1824]

I would like to get other peoples' opinion on this: Is the transcription industry really that promising here in the Philippines. From what I know, MTs are usually underpaid and it is not much of a stable career long term.

[mtresponse]

Do US MTs produce only 100% accurate reports (unlike overseas MTs)?

In MHO, overseas MTs are getting 3-6 cents per line not because of quality issues but because of the competition they have been facing.

Exeptions are everywhere.

[iEatDeadDeer]

Paid PER LINE??? are you f'ing kidding me?

[surfdog1958]

The ultimate goal of MTSO executives and HIM managers is minimum-wage pay for a job that requires you to work in sweatshop mode and gives you no respect. They think that anyone who can type fast can do medical transcription. Most of these executives and managers wouldn't recognize a medical error if it jumped off the page and bit them. They assume that we are taking already accurate, easily discernible information and simply putting it into text format. Don't waste your time!

[trulynot]

@surfdog1958 managements job is always to push down costs any way they can. In all fields you will find a gap between worker experience and management understanding.

[MThound]

I have been an MT for 18 years. I make less money now than I did 10 years ago. I would NOT recommend anyone do this for a living.

[doomsdaymonster7]

@MThound I charge radiologists' accounts (who have at least 500 x-rays/sonos/echos/mammos per week) PER REPORT ($4/report) rather than per line. Yes it's frustrating to make templates for new accounts, but I end up having about 300+ templates for each doc. Ergo, the actual typing is minimalistic. Most times I just enter #s and patient chart info. The rest is taken care of by the template. So I do over 25 reports/hr. That's $100/hr. You used to make more? How?

[dm4859]

Technology has made most MTs way more productive than we were 18 years ago. I'm sorry that it has not worked that way for you. With the great rates we had 18 years ago and the technology we now have, we would be making $70 an hour - that's not gonna help our healthcare industry woes.

[proudtube]

I am wondering how one can get entry positions in medical transcription right here in the US. I am supposed to obtain my certificate this december and although I do work for a major hospital they do not seem to be interested in my new acquired educ! Any suggestions? I am not doing it for making big money, I kinda gave up on that idea a long time ago, but I would like to get out of CNA work which I don't like..So, dear folks, any ideas out there? Thanks in advance.

[nulife022]

I've been a MT for 15 years, and I make less money every year due to increasing ESL dictation and generally poor grammar and language skills of young MDs and RNs, not to mention stagnat (or even diminished) line rates over the last 12 years. Save yourself a lot of hedaches and pick a different profession.

[murphyclm]

Amen. And don't even talk about voice recognition and offshoring to India. I would advise any new transcriber to seek out a small company OR get very very good at VR. My paycheck is dropping rapidly. I've never made a fortune at it and may quit completely. I'm too far away from retirement and will have to make some changes if I can't find a smaller place to work for. I don't love this job like I used to because of how things have become, it's a shame.

[rahj8786]

are you also an MT? did you mean the job is not in demand anymore?

[murphyclm]

Yes, I'm an MT, employed continuously for 32 years full time. I got lucky and found a smaller company with a hospital account that does not require VR. YES, the field has changed! You can find out a great deal on the subject by reading the forums at MT Stars. Just find out as much as you can BEFORE you invest a lot of money to learn this field. Maybe go into medical billing/coding instead. The pay has dropped off and many are struggling right financially. Again, see MT Stars forums.

[jackman4ever]

Okay, then please explain to me WHY the vast majority of medical transcription has been outsourced to INDIA??? Where is HIPAA compliance ??? We need to bring medical transcription back to the U.S. and bring back the wages with it. I used to be a hospital transcription supervisor and due to all the outsourcing there are NO jobs in this area of the country and I am doing QA for an India-based company (and the quality of their transcription SUCKS at best!). I make HALF of what I used to make.

[NightOwl30]

You are right, piss-poor QA is what you get when you offshore. It's nothing against the offshored MTs, but transcribing in a second language you will not be as accurate. But there are plenty of jobs for MTs here because of that. So many accounts of ours have dumped offshored companies and went with us due to bad QA. So hang in there.

[Brenndy]

The video failed to mention

[Brenndy]

If that video makes us (MTs) out to be so vital to the health care industry, you think they would have mentioned that we are SO underpaid. So much so, that we actually are paid by the penny/line. Something has to change, esp. with all the outsourcing. American MTs are begging for > 8-10 cents per line; whereas overseas MTs are trilled to be compensated 3 or 4 cents per line, but the quality of their (overseas MTs) proves that's what they are only worth.

[purlywites1113]

I am a medical transcriptionist

[CBseries2020winner]

do u want a job in this field.

[Ankh9980]

Kay141516: the name change... happened in 2007, yet if you were to do any business with them today, you'd still find that almost EVERYTHING has AAMT written all over it. It's been a while!

srulzalman: I have found that anytime you deal with AHDI it is like this, the whole Stepford wife thing. So, unless you're a CMT, AHDI-F/FAAMT, and went to an "approved" school, you're chopped liver.

The misspell. It's funny that a transcription oragnization would misspell something! Gives you hope!

[srulzalman]

would have been more credible if the name of the hospital, Beth Israel-Deaconess, had been spelled properly (NOT Deaconist)! ditto comment about unsecured transmissions, Big Brother-ism. And who says certification for all is a good thing? this was self-congratulatory back slapping agenda, not educational about the field (note the Stepford wife look in the eyes of the AAMT board member!)

[planetbuchanan]

Great comments. This video was originally produced in 2004, when AHDI was still known as AAMT. We felt it was important to get this video posted - eventhough it shows the old association name. :)

[Kay141516]

While there is some excellent information in this video, what happened to AHDI? The name of the organization and the web site were changed in 2007, but yet this video, just posted last week (2008), still says AAMT in several places.

[KentuckyLadyLiberty]

No where does this address that Americans' records are routinely shipped to unsecure areas of the world without the patient's knowledge.

[Mefancy]

THANK YOU!!! Also nowhere does it inform that many of us MTs have lost our jobs before, JUST SO people in those unsecured areas of the world could transcribe AMERICAN medical records - regardless of CMT status!!! Other then that, the video does make me proud to be a Medical Transcriptionist!

[CBseries2020winner]

Hi have u lost ur job

[Mefancy]

Yes, one of them, I transcribe for a few companies though, thankfully. It's all about who works cheaper anymore!

[NightOwl30]

Trust me, when hospitals get sued for bad offshore errors that happen often, and they get hit in the pocketbook, they tend to change their mind.

[spartaeus]

HIPAA doesn't exist to protect the patient.