Medical Transcription Trends

If you can assure your employers and clients that you can keep medical information secure and confidential while working as a home-based medical transcriptionist, you will get a gigantic edge over your peers in the industry. However, you need to make an effort to secure your work at home.

Let me share with you a few tips to ensure the security of medical information that passes through your hands.

• Make sure your anti-virus software and firewall are always updated. You cannot afford to let your computer and your work to be infected by malicious programs.
• Install the service packs of your operating system as and when they are released. This will keep your system updated and avert any unnecessary problems.
• Let your work computer be dedicated to only the medical transcription work. Don’t use it for personal work and don’t let others access it.
• Get a secure FTP connection to transfer medical transcription files. Working from home requires that you transfer information online. Therefore, you need to assure that the information won’t be intercepted during the transfer.
• Encrypt e-mails that contain information related to your work. By encrypting information, you assure that no third party gets access to confidential patient information.
• Keep hard copies of your work locked in cabinets. Don’t let anyone else have access to them. Shred the papers you no longer need. They should be kept lying about in the house.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) also expects you to ensure utmost security of the medical information. Thus, if you strive for HIPAA-compliance, you will be able to satisfy your clients.

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