Future of Medical Transcription

This informational video was created for the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (formerly the American Association for Medical Transcription) to educate the public about the important role medical transcriptionists play in healthcare documentation. For more information, visit www.ahdionline.org

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[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. :)

[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.

[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!

[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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[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.

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[RaineyWM]

What level math does this degree require?

[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?