Medical Transcription

Medical Transcription Services have traditionally been the means by which time-starved medical providers keep up with their documentation. Medical transcriptionists generate clinical notes, correspondence, or any other type of administrative material that a provider doesn’t have the time to create himself or herself. Originally designed to be a cost effective solution to allow busy providers to operate more efficiently, medical transcriptionists are today an expensive dinosaur on the verge of extinction.

A quick Google search for medical transcription courses or training turns up hundreds of websites advertising a lucrative job opportunity that comes at the cost of little-to-no effort. Headlines that offer salaries in excess of $40k per year in exchange for part-time, do-it-from-home work that is attainable after only a few weeks of training from a non-accredited institution beg the question: who’s paying for all these cush jobs and why? Poker players often say that if you’re sitting at a table and wondering who the sucker is- chances are that it’s you. If you’re still paying for a medical transcriptionist, perhaps its time to ask yourself if you are the sucker at the table, and if so- what can you do about it?

PracticeAdmin offers a fully integrated electronic health records system called PA Clinical Manager (PCM) which makes it easy to eliminate transcription bills- even if you aren’t a computer person. PCM gives non-technically savvy medical providers the option of dictating their notes into a microphone, just like they do for their current medical transcription service. The difference is that PCM uses voice recognition software to turn your spoken words into text on the computer screen. This happens in real-time, and without having to pay a human to listen to the recording and type out the words. Best of all the PCM electronic health records system retails for a fraction of the cost of a medical transcriptionist, but delivers far more functionality than just turning words into text (i.e. eRX writer with drug interactions and formularies, patient education materials, lab tests, etc.) In other words, even if you only want to use a small portion of its functionality (i.e. the ability to dictate your clinical notes), purchasing the full PCM product is cheaper than paying for a single full-time medical transcriptionist! Click Here to learn more about PCM- PracticeAdmin’s integrated electronic health records system.