What is Medical transcription?
[[Transcription]] means to listen to a recorded voice and to write down what it is saying. '''Medical transcription''' means to do this for doctors or other [[clinicians]]. When [[Medical doctor|doctors]] and [[Nurse|nurses]] help someone in the hospital, they do not have time to write down what they saw or heard. So later they record what they saw and heard, so someone else can write it down. The notes are then added to the hospital's history. The person who does this as a [[profession]] is called a medical transcriptionist. People who do medical transcription normally work in hospitals, doctor's offices, old age homes, and other places where doctors and nurses work. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/medical-transcriptionists.htm |title=US Labor Bureau: Medical Transcriptionists |accessdate=2013-02-01}}</ref> There is huge rise in outsourcing of Medical Transcription to other companies. In the United States this field of business is worth US$10 to $25 billion and growing 15 percent each year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos271.htm |title=Medical Transcriptionists : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |publisher=Bls.gov |date=2012-03-29 |accessdate=2013-10-29 |archive-date=2012-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111143621/http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos271.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Because of rising costs of Medical Transcription it became recently popular to use different computer products (software) that can reduce transcription costs by as much as 50%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emdat.com/ |title=Emdat Medical Transcription Software, Dictation and EHR Platform |publisher=Emdat.com |accessdate=2013-10-29}}</ref> There is no available research about [[market share]] between in-house Transcription, outsourcing and software based. == Education == People who do medical transcription do not need as much [[education]] as doctors, but they need to know medical words and have basic medical [[knowledge]]. They normally go to [[schoo