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MT's Future? - aceofbase
Posted: Feb 20, 2010
I was told not to enter the medical transcription field because it was not going to exist in about five or six years. Is this true? I really want a job that is professional and allows me to work at home as well.
Thanks
There will probably always be transcription - but...
[ In Reply To ..]...transcribed material will certainly comprise less and less of the health record as time goes along.
There are other problems in the field that would cause me, if I were your best friend, to recommend that you would probably be better advised to look for other options.
There have been significant structural changes in the industry that have resulted in much lower levels of compensation together with much greater levels of frustration and a general devaluing of the medical transcriptionist in every way imaginable, even while their employers are making handsome profits from their labor.
You mention a profession, but you won't be treated like a professional. You'll be treated, and paid, as a production typist.
You also mention working at home. It's interesting, but it was the transition to home-based transcription that initiated many of the adverse changes I'm referring to. For instance, people who reported to an office for work were naturally paid by the hour and many organizational costs could not be shifted to them. At home, paid by production, a lot of the cost has been shifted.
For instance, if a new transcription platform is being implemented, there is naturally an interruption to production. You would still have to pay the hourly people in the office, and that is a legitimate cost of the new technology that the organization should bear.
However, you don't have to pay the people at home, who lose production either while they are off work completely or while they are coming back up to speed on the new system. VOILA! You've shifted this cost to them and they're the ones who suffer. Pretty good gig for the employer...pretty bad one for the MT.
Just one example of many regarding cost-shifting, and cost-shifting is just one of many of the structural changes that have transformed medical transcription from a very good field of work into one that more closely resembles the old garment industry of the early 1900s when people slaved at sewing machines at home on a "piece" basis, working 12-14 hours a day or more for chump change.
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