Home Based Medical Transcription : “A Second Income”

In general a MT or a QA has to work 8 hrs to 10 hrs in a day. Either you work in general shift or in some special shift timing, each one of you have close to 2-4 hrs spare in daily routine to do transcription at home. Thus there is chance to make second income.

"Second Income" is the one that we always dreamt of and always wanted to make or earn quickly. That is the basic nature of the human being to make best out of the current resources.

Home transcription is the best option as a second income for MTs/QAs in medical transcription industry. In general a MT or a QA has to work 8 hrs to 10 hrs in a day. Either you work in general shift or in some special shift timing, each one of you have close to 2-4 hrs spare in daily routine to do transcription at home. Thus there is chance to make second income.

Some of the medical transcriptionists have chosen home transcription as their full time job. Which is bit risky !!! As they not sure that how much they gona make in a month. It could be more or less. A fixed income always help to plan out expenses. If you are working for a company then its shields you from ups and down in a business life cycle. Hence the best option is a home transcription as a second income.

How To Start Home Based Medical Transcription?

A lot of people think about starting home based MT, but don't know where to begin. Others worry about failure. You don't have to worry with medical transcription because you can start small and build up your business at your own pace, in your spare time. You don't have to give up a job to start medical transcription at home if you don't want to. That's what is so nice about it.

The Basic Requirement to start home medical transcription are

1) Hardware required for medical transcription
a. Computer
i. RAM – Minimum 256 MB
ii. Hard Disk – Minimum 20 GB
iii. CPU – Minimum 2.2 Ghz
b. Foot Pedal
c. Ear phones
d. Amplifier

I strongly recommend 512 MB of RAM or above as while transcribing a medical report you would require to open multiple application (like medical dictionary, spell checker, word, IE, etc) simultaneously. Hence more the memory you have the more would be the speed of the computer.

2) Softwares required for Medical Transcription
a. Preferable WinXP,
b. Microsoft Office 2000
c. Medical Dictionaries
d. Spell Checker
e. Line Counter application for invoicing

For free line counter application you can drop me a mail at info@rekhatranscription.com.

Important :
Need not to worry about getting work. Just register on www.mthomemd.com and someone would contact you for sure. They are good and reliable on payments. Only issue with MTHomeMD is initial response is late (may be a month), but once they enroll you then there is no looking back.

Is home-medical-transcription a right career for me?

Medical transcriptionists are in demand.

Transcription services now range from small, one-person home-based businesses to sophisticated, high-tech corporations. Local medical transcription services serve client hospitals throughout the nation. Some medical transcription services now employ both "on-site" and home-based medical transcriptionists. Medical transcription is a career that easily moves across geographic borders.

Many areas of the country are desperate for qualified medical transcriptionists. Fortunately, technological advances have allowed medical transcriptionists in one part of the country to work from home for employers located elsewhere.