Medical transcription

[RTicUL8]

Medical transcription

My wife is looking into doing this from home.
She is trying to find an online course to take.

Does anyone here know someone who does medical transcription?
I am looking for recommendations for the best places to take online courses for this.

Thanks,

Craig
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[IllianaXJ]

Subscribing. My wife is thinking about doing the same thing.

 

[RichP]

I built the servers and infrastructure for a health information management company, I would suggest taking a live course, usually 5 days then it's a long road to get into it. Most of the coders had at least 2-3 years experience at a hospital or doctors office, one of those need experience to get the job but need the job to get experience. I know the customer I did the work for paid $3 a page in 2001 and by 2005 he was down to $1 a page to compete with indian and Philippine coders. I suggest the live course as they generally have a placement program along with it or at least an apprentice type entry level. I don't know how he legally get past the hippa stuff using overseas companies that are not inspected or regulated and he would tap dance around it when I asked him.
Once she gets some experience under her belt she can then apply for other jobs that allow remote set your own hours jobs.
It was actually a good setup, the hospitals and doctors would scan the charts thru a PC that I supplied, it would then dump the images onto a secure portal server and two supervisors would move them into coders folders on the sun one servers where the coders would pick them up, do the transcriptions and spread sheets and then dump them back where the supervisors would move them to the clients box for retrieval and billing. Coders averaged about $500 a day at $3 and 6 hours and that dropped to $200 a day at $1 and 6 hours.
In it's heyday coders were making $1000-$1200 a day.
As far as the outsourcing goes, man I saw some of the mistakes the outsourcing indian and phillipine companies made that just went thru because it was in the hospitals or clients favor. Probably more than you want to know.

 

[jdogg4]

have a cousin that does that. She had worked in a doctors office for 5 years then started doing it part time at home after work and her days off from the office. Then she had a kid so it worked out great for her to just start doing it full time. Was doing 4 hours in the morning then 4 more here and there during the day. She said at first they did it on a how much time your on the system and how long it takes you to knock them out. She's pretty good at it and they started sending her more and more orders. She is having another kid and it's nice if she has to run and pick them up or take them some place she can work around her schedual pretty much and after 3 or so years of doing it she's making really good money now.

She said if your not good at self motivation it's not the job for you. She said it's dry boaring work so it's hard to stay on task at first. She said that kid of weeds out the people just into it for the money.

 

[BIGSLVRXJ]

My mom is a medical transcriptionist and she works from her home. I know she took a lot of classes at the community college around here, but that was oh shoot, probably 25-30 years ago. She originally started out as a medical assistant and then got into transcription. She makes right around 40k per year, but she works for one of the county hospitals so the money isn't as great as it probably could be. As far as online courses at home go, I would really just check with a CC if you have one around your area.

 

[rocknxj]

My wife decided to quit her good paying part time job with 4 weeks of vacation and pursue a career as a medical transcriptionist. I bought her a nice computer for that effort. She paid for the school and finished her courses at her own slow pace (about 2 hours each day).

After course completion, she got a job transcribing files through a company called MX Secure. They seemed like a good company. She worked no more than 2 hours a day. After a year and a half of that, she began having severe pains in her arms due to a suspected condition of carpal tunnel syndrome.

After some debate, she decided to quit the job. She's now unemployed from her part time, part time job. She made enough money to pay for the school and computer, but that is about it.

Go for it, but know the risks and costs before she decides.

 

[RichP]

My wife decided to quit her good paying part time job with 4 weeks of vacation and pursue a career as a medical transcriptionist. I bought her a nice computer for that effort. She paid for the school and finished her courses at her own slow pace (about 2 hours each day).

After course completion, she got a job transcribing files through a company called MX Secure. They seemed like a good company. She worked no more than 2 hours a day. After a year and a half of that, she began having severe pains in her arms due to a suspected condition of carpal tunnel syndrome.

After some debate, she decided to quit the job. She's now unemployed from her part time, part time job. She made enough money to pay for the school and computer, but that is about it.

Go for it, but know the risks and costs before she decides.

The computer does not mean squat if you don't have a good desk to use it with, Leda makes excellent ones, I have 3 of them here at the house.

 

[JR aka RJROffRoad]

My mom has been doing Transcription for probably 25-30 years straight.

The last 6-8+ years has been thru telecommuting.

She hates it. Carpel tunnel, sore hands, wrist splints, arthritis, boredom

She works for Providence medical, probably hits 40K a year working her ass off full-time.

 

[RTicUL8]

How much did MX secure pay?

Do you have a link to their site?

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[RTicUL8]

About carpel tunnel:

I also type a lot each day - I've been doing that for about 14 years now.

I used to use the plain jane keyboard, but my wrists started hurting a lot until I switched to a split keyboard.

Here's the one I'm currently using:

No problems with hurting wrists in the last 8 years.

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[rocknxj]

How much did MX secure pay?

Do you have a link to their site?

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I'm sure a Google search will reveal their site. You can apply there. Or go to http://www.mxsecure.com/ if you are Google challenged. If you are, I suggest something in the field of brooms for a career, and not computers.

As for pay, the company paid my wife per line of typing. When she recieved files from familar English-speaking doctors, she would average about 8-10 bucks an hour. When she was getting familiar with a new doctor or an ESL doctor with a heavy accent, her rate dropped dramatically to about 2-4 bucks an hour. Seriously. She also took hits and lost money when words could not be deciphered. I would occasionally listen to the recordings and wonder why she would ever pursue such a challenge.

Her entire 2007 salary was less than 6k. Not to minimize her efforts, but I spent more than that on beer last year.