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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

Home sweet home! How many of us would have cursed pausing at different stoplights, driving through erratic crowd, dust, heat and sunshine while commuting to and fro office? How many of us would have got irrigated by the crawling traffic at various traffic jams traveling back and forth office? How many of us would have [...]

“No,” at least for the next one or two decades. Efforts in this regard began as early as 1936 and it was only in early 1980s, the technology reached the commercial market. You could see the chronology of development of speech recognition technology at Dragon Medical Transcription. SRT also known as voice recognition (VR), automated [...]

One senior Indian lady posed me a question: “I’m retired, can I have a retirement career change to medical transcription to earn some income?”  I was surprised but she was serious.  She wanted to utilize her free time efficiently that it would fetch some income (as she is feeling a sort of bored retired life [...]

It is obvious for anyone in India to have this doubt, what would be a medical transcriprtionist’s salary? How much a medical transcriptionist can earn in India? Anywhere between four digits to six digits per month. Depending on your skill, dedication, willingness to work etc., your earning too differs as in any field. In the [...]

The main advantage of outsourcing any back office work like medical transcription to India or any third-world Asian countries is the cost advantage due to the availability of cheap labor there. The time difference between US and India is another factor. The work assigned by a US doctor at evening US time to a healthcare BPO [...]