Medical transcription group shares career opportunities

The Kansas Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity -- a medical transcription professional group -- is holding a career information meeting next week in Derby.

The group is looking to share information with people interested in learning more about this in-demand career.

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Expansion of medical transcription services

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Intivia Inc, the leading provider of medical transcription services and medical office software suite, has announced strategic expansion of its operations in Thiruvananthapuram and Vadodara in Gujarat.

Intivia plans to create opportunities for over 300 medical transcription professionals at these two locations over the next 12 months, as part of its Phase I expansion in these regions. Medical transcription operations in both cities will commence this month.

The expansion is intended to successfully meet the rapidly growing demand of healthcare documentation and technology services, said Ashish Vachhani, CEO, Intivia.

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Professional Transcription and Your Business

Got stacks of audio tapes that need to be converted to a more user-friendly format? Professional transcription services may be the answer.

Professional transcriptionists can take standard or micro cassette tapes and produce a typed version of the text in a format that's clear, consistent and correct. They can create transcripts of taped meetings, training sessions, seminars and conventions, as well as dictated letters, reports and manuscripts. Once the information is transcribed, you can easily email, fax or post it to a Website.

Accuracy Is Essential

Transcribing actually covers a variety of services. It can include whatever editing is necessary to make a report or letter 'flow'. It can also include the tweaking sentence syntax, adjusting paragraphs, removing redundancies, and repairing general grammatical errors.

For some professions, a high degree of accuracy in transcripts is crucial. For example, medical transcriptionists must carefully listen to dictated recordings made by physicians and other healthcare professionals and accurately transcribe them into reports, correspondence and other administrative materials that eventually become part of patients' permanent files. Their ability to understand and correctly transcribe patient assessments and treatments reduces the chance of patients receiving ineffective or even harmful treatments and ultimately ensures high quality patient care.

Accuracy in transcripts is equally as important in other fields. In legal matters, it's essential because all testimony must be rendered exactly as it's spoken. Likewise, police detectives require precise transcripts of statements by suspects and witnesses. In the corporate arena, letters, meetings and training sessions must be properly transcribed for the sake of effective education and communication.

Requirements For A Good Transcriptionist

Whether you need medical, legal or general transcribing for your business, accurate transcribing requires a unique set of skills. But if your staff lacks the expertise or time to transcribe materials in house, an outside company can easily fill the void.

Working with an outside vendor offers a variety of cost-saving benefits, including:

• No cost of special equipment.
• No hourly employee downtime. You pay only for production.
• No Social Security, payroll or unemployment taxes.
• No medical insurance benefits, paid vacations and sick leave
  

But before you run out and hire the first transcription company available, make sure it has the skills to meet your needs. The outsourcer you choose should be:

• Well-versed in the English language
• Knowledgeable of the rules of grammar
• Familiar with your industry
• Easily accessible for questions
  

About The Author

For more information about professional transcription services, contact Kate Smalley, Connecticut Secretary, at 203-641-3739 or mailto:kms@connecticutsecretary.com

Connecticut Secretary
Freelance Secretarial and Transcription Services
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203.641.3739 mailto:kms@connecticutsecretary.com

ZyDoc Medical Transcription Enhances the Practice Fusion EMR

ZyDoc Medical Transcription (http://www.zydoc.com/index.htm)announced today it has formed a business alliance with Practice Fusion, Inc. ZyDoc will offer transcription services that are tightly integrated with Practice Fusion's EMR. Both systems are ASP based and will work from any Internet-connected computer.

With no change in work habits, doctors can dictate from any telephone to the TelDoc system or utilize handheld professional digital recorders. The dictation and records are tracked on the ZyDoc TrackDoc Internet site, similar to UPS packages, and are transcribed and returned within the required turnaround time as quickly as two hours. The highly accurate transcribed reports are available on the web and after review are automatically inserted into the Practice Fusion EMR system as part of the specific patient record.

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