Thursday, January 31, 2008

Outsourced Home-Based Medical Transcriptionists Remake Themselves into "Virtual Assistants"

For decades, the health profession has depended on a legion of home-based medical transcriptionists to turn voice recordings into medical records and other documents. At the same time, the profession has been a boon to working mothers and others who need the flexibility to work from home. However, like so many other professions, medical transcription jobs are disappearing overseas. Medical transcriptionists, led by Diane Fusco, are now taking matters into their own hands by transforming themselves into Internet-based “Virtual Assistants.”

“I see red whenever I come across an ad promoting medical transcription as the ideal work-from-home profession,” says Fusco. A medical transcriptionist (or MT) for 19 years, she’s seen the field undergo drastic changes.

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