Medical Transcription Trends

Working from home can be a wonderful thing! You get to make your own hours, you are not tied to a boss over your shoulder and you can watch your kids without having to pay for expensive babysitters or Daycare. But, while working from home can be great, it has its cons as well. Making your own hours in a hectic world can sometimes be a challenge when you are battling kids and phone calls and housework, and of course the lure of the TV. Thus, the important factor in all of this is to keep yourself happy.

Make sure your seating area is comfortable. Buy the best ergonomically engineered furniture you can afford. Consider purchasing an ergonomic keyboard and/or ergonomic mouse to help relieve forearm, wrist and finger pain. For the home-based worker it is a real necessity because if you can’t transcribe, chances are you aren’t earning any money. Most home-based workers do not have any kind of health or income insurance to rely on so must ensure they continue to have the ability to produce work. Following proper procedures to avoid work-related repetitive stress injury will ensure you have a long transcribing career.

Keep your work area as quiet as possible. Seasoned medical transcriptionists know how important it is to have their surroundings as quiet as possible. No doubt this is sometimes impossible because you work from home and have small children and pets to contend with, but do your best to explain to people this is your work time (though it is difficult to explain it to your pets, set up areas for them or feed them; whatever you need to do to keep them quiet). Fast, accurate transcription is most attainable when you can concentrate on the dictated words and virtually nothing else. While you are able to transcribe with ambient noise, speed and accuracy are almost always adversely affected.

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