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Scratch-Offs – Burn the Coupons Instead of Your Money
Mar 10th
There are 323 billion coupons printed each year and the redemption rate is less than 3%. Users only redeem coupons from places they would ordinarily purchase from anyway and 75% of the coupons redeemed are by consumers who buy the brand already, so it does not make your coupon unique to your company.On the other hand you have scratch and win cards that provide a competitive edge, draw attention and get your consumers involved. This is going to help increase impulse purchases if your consumers think they are going to win something or if they have won something. Scratch and More >
Medical Transcription and Voice Recognition
Feb 23rd
Medical transcription (MT) assignments are one of the highly acclaimed outsourced jobs in the healthcare industry and are mainly aimed at enabling US and UK based healthcare providers to have cost-effective solutions in maintaining day-to-day patient records. In the competitive healthcare arena where healthcare facilities are finding it difficult and expensive to maintain their own in-house transcription facilities, having these jobs outsourced spells huge savings in cost and effort. All major medical transcription service providers are now offering their medical transcription and voice recognition services in a highly customized and time-bound manner.Voice recognition technology has a key role to play More >
Transcription Services
Feb 23rd
Transcription service is the conversion of a spoken language source into written or printed form. A provider is one who converts the spoken word to type-written format. There are various companies which provide these services to their customers.Quality and efficient service is very much needed in many businesses and professions, whether it is medical, business or legal. It is not possible to type as fast as you speak. Even an experienced transcription service provider will have to listen four times before writing a clear one-to-one, good interview. A transcription service provider’s job is to punctuate the speech rightly, make a More >
Are There Really Any Entry Level Transcription Jobs Out There?
Feb 22nd
This is a question I get asked all the time: “I’m looking for a way to make some decent money working from home, and Medical Transcription sounds like a cool job. Are there any entry level transcription jobs?”There are indeed. The transcriptionist population is aging and people are retiring. There is always a need to replace retiring workers, and we’ve all got to start somewhere, don’t we? So, yep, you can get an entry level transcription job.Now, having said that, it is harder to get an entry-level job than it is once you’ve got a couple of years under your More >
ASTM Standards For Medical Transcription
Feb 21st
Medical Transcription is about skilled human beings listening to dictations by physicians and typing up every word to make it into a recorded document/transcript. They must obviously have a proper understanding of medical terms and be able to understand most medical jargon and just cannot afford to make any errors. Besides the human skills factor in transcription there are other factors too that contribute to the ultimate quality of medical transcription. There are four basic factors that determine the quality of a transcript. They are,DictationTranscriptionist skillSystem ManagementComponents of Quality assuranceAn organization called ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) has More >
Medical Transcription Careers – Explore The Medical Transcription Profession
Feb 21st
A health profession fast becoming popular these days is medical transcription, which is the comprehensive process of transcribing voice-recorded reports done by doctors and other healthcare professionals into text format.A medical transcriptionist is responsible for converting important, confidential, and up-to-date information into written text. This text is printed and included in patients’ records. Then they are archived and retained as electronic medical records. The profession can be conducted inside the hospital premises or via remote transmission to the hospital. The electronic storing of medical records is preferred by modern-day medical institutions with respect to the unending increase of the volume More >
Medical Transcription Companies in the USA
Feb 18th
As the demand for medical transcription work is increasing at a rapid rate, medical transcription companies are mushrooming in the USA. Documentation is a necessity in all healthcare facilities, whether they are clinics, hospitals, or other organizations. Medical transcription companies in the USA occupy a unique niche in the documentation field. No matter where you are located in the USA, these firms can help your practice in every stage of documentation process – all from dictation capture to document distribution.Most of the medical transcription companies in the USA can provide superior quality, accurate documentation services as they employ highly skilled More >
Medical Transcription Rates – The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly
Feb 17th
Median hourly medical transcription rates range from $10.25 for one year or less of medical transcribing experience all the way up to $15.98 for 20 or more years of experience according to the PayScale website. While helpful, this information is too general to be of much use since 50% of MTs will make less than those figures, and 50% will make more.The good news is that medical transcription is much like niche marketing on the Internet. There will be certain medical transcription niches or specialties that pay more, a lot more, than general medical transcription. Think in terms of who has the most More >
Outsourcing Transcription Work
Feb 16th
Transcription is basically defined as any typing of oral recordings (intelligent verbatim transcription) – these days on a digital recorder, often supplied by a company called Olympus and recorded onto a CD or digital file.The file is then sent to a transcriber (typist) who uses software to turn the recorded work into a manuscript. This is the transcript and hence we get the word transcription.Transcription has become fairly big business and a lot of companies and firms are experimenting with outsourcing transcription work.General DictationThere are two sorts of outsourced transcription work, the first being day to day, general dictation by More >
Medical Transcription – What Supplies Do You Need To Get Started As A Medical Transcriptionist?
Feb 14th
Medical transcriptionist require certain minimal supplies to get started. Fortunately many of the companies that hire transcriptionist also will provide all the supplies that are needed. This article will list what is needed to start.You will need several medical reference books to get started in this field. Medical transcriptionist require a large medical vocabulary. At first you will need books to help you understand the terminology. Some of the books that you might find helpful are:American Drug Index by Billups, by Facts and ComparisonsThe Medical Word Book by SloaneStedman’s Radiology and Oncology WordsMedical Abbreviations by Neal M. DavisStedman’s OB-GYN WordsAnother More >
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