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Medical Transcription Editing and Course Training

MTatHome Admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:07:21 +0000

Medical Transcription Editing and Training The medical transcription career has been around for years. Many years ago, MTs would listen to voice dictations on a cassette tape and type the medical report (transcribe) on a type writer. Once computers became popular MTs converted over to transcribe on computers that ran DOS systems. Over time, …

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Is the Medical Transcription career field a good choice for you?

MTatHome Admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:42:29 +0000

Is Medical Transcription the right career for you? Medical Transcription can be a very rewarding career to work in. Most MTs have an interest in the medical field. This is important because when you are listening to detailed medical dictations, you can become bored very quickly if it does not interest you. You also must …

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Electronic Health Care Records and Medical Transcription

MTatHome Admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:53:58 +0000

Electronic Health Records Can Improve the Healthcare of Patients. What does EHR mean for the medical transcription career field? Paper records are soon to be a thing in the past! More doctors are switching to electronic health records to help improve patient healthcare. There are two different abbreviations for the electronic records: EMR- EMR is …

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The medical transcription career can be for both men and women!

MTatHome Admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:44:17 +0000

There has been an increase in stay at home dads over the past few years! 20 or 30 years ago you would not hear very often about a man staying at home raising the kids while the woman worked outside of the house. Things have changed a lot since then! More couples are making the …

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What is a medical transcription work schedule like?

MTatHome Admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:47:32 +0000

Can a medical transcriptionist create their own work at home schedule? A lot of people that want to work at home in medical transcription are concerned about the ability of choosing their own work schedule. This could be for many different reasons such as having small children at home, currently working another job, etc. Most …

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How to organize a home office.

MTatHome Admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:05:58 +0000

Organizing your Home Office: One of the biggest challenges for those that work at home is keeping the office area organized. Even a well-organized person will find themselves letting papers or mail pile up from time to time. It is very easy to get behind on organizing. This is especially true when you have worked …

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