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What, Who Said, No Need For A Medical Transcriptionist - Read On
By admin | April 13, 2008
The changing technology and advances in medicine has created an enormous growth spurt in health career opportunities. Managed care and cost containment also help to shape the health care industry. The emphasis is upon providing services on an outpatient basis, limiting unnecessary services, health care education, and stressing preventive care to help reduce the cost of undiagnosed and untreated medical conditions.
The continuing advances in information technology also contribute to the improvement of patient care and worker efficiency. Such devices as handheld computers that record medical notes for each patient eliminates paper, reduces documentation errors, and makes patient information instantly available.
All these changes in technology create new health care job opportunities within the health care industry, and especially for the health information management profession.
The U.S. Department of Labor foresees the following developments in health care:
• As demand for health care increases, health care services will need to add 2.8 plus million new jobs
• Between the years 2000 and 2010, health care support jobs are expected to grow by 33.4%, adding 1.1 million new jobs.
• Among the 20 most fastest-growing occupations is “Health Information Technology.”
• Positions are in hospitals, nursing homes, medical group practices, clinics, home health agencies.
• The medical records and health information management positions are expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through the years 2010.
The Health Care Industry does not look bleak at all, and especially for those who are in medical records and health information management positions. Medical Transcription is among the positions expected to grow, and is one of the fastest-growing health professions in the United States. This increase in medical records and health management positions is contributed to an increase in the number of medical tests, treatments and procedures our new technology continues to provide for us. In turn, this increase will create more use of health information by third-party payers, regulators, courts and consumers. And guess who will be responsible for managing all this information? Health Information Management Technicians such as the Medical Transcriptionist will be responsible for managing all the information created by the new and forever changing technology. Machines and gadgets do not operate by themselves! There will always be a human somewhere in front of or behind the machine and the gadget. Many of those humans will be Medical Transcriptionists. The U.S. Department of Labor projects a lot of humans managing all that new information. Techniques of how it is managed will change, but the use of people behind the machines will never change.
In addition Medical Transcriptionists just now entering the field are entering at a time when the possibilities are growing, which means many new and exciting opportunities, roles and settings will be available.
A hospital setting is no longer the only place in which a Medical Transcriptionist works. Today, there are a wide variety of settings and roles that Medical Transcriptionist can fill. If you are interested in a specific area of medicine such as dermatology, or oncology, or another area of health care, chances are you can find a position in that area as a Medical Transcriptionist.
Today, health information management professionals have the best of all worlds in health care. A Medical Transcriptionist can work out of a home office as an independent contractor acquiring as little or as many accounts as he or she can handle. Medical Transcriptionists also work out of their home offices for hospitals and health care facilities across the nation from their home and even in other countries. Medical Transcriptionists can teach in colleges all over the nation. There are thousands of colleges now offering Medical Transcriptionist programs. You can create your own home study medical transcription course as well online and in print.
It is indeed a very exciting time for Medical Transcription Professionals. Opportunities within the health care industry are absolutely endless!
Source: U.S. Department of Labor
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Written by: Connie Limon, Medical Transcriptionist. Visit us at http://www.aboutmedicaltranscription.info for more information about the unique and rewarding career choice of Medical Transcription. Join Camelot Articles http://www.camelotarticles.com and submit your original articles for website promotion and backlinks. © 2007 Connie Limon All Rights Reserved
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