My experience with Acroseas

Of all the companies to whom we doctors have outsourced medical transcriptions to, I found an Indian based company called Acroseas as the best. And my article will tell you why.

Acroseas is a leading healthcare business process outsourcing company based inIndia. They are primarily focused on providing reliable and really accurate medical billing and coding services. Acroseas’s success with medical billing outsourcing services has made many doctors and people abroad change their views about the Asian companies being fraudulent.

Acroseas has made a mark for itself as a leading medical billing outsourcing company in the world. My very own personal experience was pretty good enough for me to write about them and thank them for everything that they have done for me.

They are quite professional to handle all your medical billing and coding requirements. Most important of all, they have this team of experts under their wing. They offer a progressive and comprehensive suite of medical billing and coding outsourcing services such as medical billing and collections, coding, insurance verifications and authorizations and insurance verifications and more.

Indeed they are the best and very good people to work with. I’d surely recommend them.

How to dictate Operative Reports?

The quality of transcripts transcribed by medical transcriptionist is dependent on how the medical records are dictated by physicians.

There are multiple parts of operative reports and it should be dictated in the following order

1. Always dictate Patient’s Name (first and last) in the beginning of report. And if its spelled out ensures no mistake.

2. Second most important information is the Patient’s HUN # (Medical Record Number)

3. And then followed by Date of Admission and Date of Procedure

4. Its always good to dictate Primary Physician/Surgeon to avoid any ambiguity

5. Assistant(s) if any

6. Description of Findings

7. Preoperative Diagnosis

8. Postoperative Diagnosis

9. Anesthesia (Not required, but strongly recommended)

10. Description of Procedure(s)

11. Specimen(s) removed

How much money can you make with home based medical transcription?

Home based medical transcriptionis one of the most popular and fastest growing choices for a home business. Its Because it's easy to learn if you don't have experience, start up costs are very low, and you can make as much money as you want to make.

The important factor for a success of home based transcription is motivation. As you are your own boss and have to work without supervision.

How much money can you make with home based medical transcription?

This varies, depending on whether you want to work part time or full time. If you can type at a comfortable rate of speed, you can easily earn $25 per hour and more. If you can obtain enough business and hire others to work for you, it's easy to make up to $100,000 per year!

The basic skills you need to start this type of business are good typing and spelling skills. You don't need to type 100 words per minute to be successful in a home based medical transcription business - 40 or 50 is all you need.

A few other perks of having your own business: Flexible hours, no commute expenses like gas, reduced daycare expenses if you can keep your little ones at home. Wouldn't it be nice to work the hours you want? Work in the morning or evening, whenever YOU choose. Be your own boss!
Even if you know nothing about medical transcription, there are many online courses and guides that can take you step by step through everything you need to be successful. You don't have to spend thousands of dollars going to school in order to learn this highly popular occupation.

Home Transcription and Work-Life balance

Many medical transcriptionist are de-prioritising achieving a work-life balance in today's work culture of high pressure and competitiveness.

According to a recent US study for the Center for Work-Life Policy, of the 1.7 million respondents who agreed they suffered from excessive work hours and job stress, a whopping 64 per cent admitted it was "self-inflicted", and was taking a toll on their lives. Eighty-one per cent of the respondents said work was adversely affecting their health while 46 per cent felt it was affecting their interpersonal relationships. 

While doing medical transcription work from home allows you to stay at home while letting someone else remain in control of the business aspects, if you are uncomfortable with it.

There is no rule as such for what a proper work-life balance is. Your personal circumstances, whether you are in your late 30s, married with children and living with inlaws or a swinging single, fresh out of university, determine your priorities. The bottom line is simply to invest some quality time for yourself, to allow yourself the chance to 'stop and smell the roses' rather than letting work and strain overcome you.

Home Medical Transcription - Boon for house wives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Home transcription, the latest incarnation of it-enabled services, is arriving at your doorstep, all set to mesmerise a large number of housewives among others in the country. 

MTHomeMD a home based medical transcription company in India and US, employs a team of over 250 home transcriptionists (hbts) across India and has plans recruit 800 more during this year. Tipped to be the next big thing in the job market here, home transcription, essentially home-based medical transcription, which is hugely popular in the us and accounts for almost 90 per cent of the industry, offers a lucrative job prospect to those who can follow American English with an exposure to medical terms. Primarily targeted at qualified housewives, a home transcriptionist (hbt) can earn up to Rs 10,000 per month, with the comfort and convenience of working from home, coupled with flexible schedule, tailor-made to suit individual needs. 

By adopting the home-based model, which has been tested and tried successfully in the us, companies are trying to eliminate the facility costs. Besides this, it widens the scope to tap the qualified people.

“it's a pleasurable job that i am doing. after my children leave, i work till lunch time everyday,'' says Jhuma Guha, 39-year-old housewife with two children.

How to choose a Medical Transcription course

Medical Transcription is an industry that is exploding. It is prestigious and in demand. An individual who performs medical transcription is known as a medical transcriptionist (MT) or a medical transcriber. A medical transcriptionist is the person responsible for converting the patient's medical records into typewritten format rather than handwritten.

In the course of my research, the first thing I learned was that you can't just jump into a career as an MT without training. Medical transcription requires a practical knowledge of medical language, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, laboratory, medicine, and the internal organization of medical reports. Thus, the medical transcriptionist must be well versed in the language of medicine. Some qualities of a successful MT's are:
· Independent by nature.
· Word Specialist.
· Perfectionist.
· Detail oriented.
· Training options.

Transcription is one of those jobs that many people know can be done from home, and so the interest level is very high. Unfortunately, there are many companies out there trying to capitalize on that interest. The results are over-priced and sub-standard courses.

When you take the time to research the skills that a quality MT needs, it will become evident that a shorter or less comprehensive course of study is not going to give you what you need to succeed in the workplace. Many prospective students who look into very inexpensive fast programs buy into the idea that they can learn medical transcription quickly and then begin making good money right away, but as I think a MT course should offer a prospective MT student is an in-depth, comprehensive program of study including extensive study in every and all subject areas relating to advanced medical transcription and not just the basics.

As an MT student, you are going to have countless questions pertaining to your coursework and a good course needs to provide you with someone who can answer those questions quickly and comprehensively. It is important to know what you are doing wrong and why and what you are doing right. In the workplace an MT needs to work with a high percent of accuracy at between 98-99%. When MTs fall below that accuracy level, they are putting their jobs in risk. In a program, a MT should get immediate feedback on-line after each lesson. In other words, you will have the support of a trained instructor throughout the entire program, and this is imperative for your success.

MT course should offer extensive transcription practice. It is my experience that practice makes perfect. Working MTs come across a variety of difficult accents and medical specialties and without enough practice with real world dictation, the new MT could struggle in the real work environment.

MT course should offer a great deal of real world dictation practice by real doctors. The dictation you will be transcribing comes from a variety of specialties and includes very difficult dictators. It is important to get enough practice while in school so that when you graduate, you will be able to handle the most difficult types of dictation.

Home medical transcription – Redefining flexi-timing.

Flexi-timing is no longer limited to working mothers. Today, more and more professionals are being given the option to work out of home. Software
engineers are already coding from the comfort of their living rooms. Multinationals like IBM and Accenture are also offering their employees the benefits of coming to work only on a few days.

Medical transcription is not new for Indian companies to tie up with hospitals and private physicians in the USA and UK. The idea of earning while working from home so enthralled 32-year-old homeopathy doctor Ravinder Jain that he gave up her modest practice altogether.

Editing transcribed medical notes dictated by doctors in the US allows her to make Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000 per month. To do transcription at home you would need suitable software installed in your home computer and foot pedal.

While people with a science or medical background and a good command over English appear to score over other applicants, almost every company takes its staff through comprehensive training that sometimes lasts for six months. “Awareness of medical knowledge definitely is an edge.

However, there are many medical transcription units in India that also provide placements after training. Proper training of at least six months is a must for anyone desirous of entering this profession

While the company can measure the language skills and concentration levels of the trainee, the trainee can decide whether they find the job interesting enough. Some companies look for medical transcriptionists with experience.