Dear friends:

There was criticism abroad by certain section of people that Indian Medical Transcription is of poor quality and not secure....

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http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1961

Give your valueable comments on Quality of Indian Medical Transcription and Security to be published on bangaloreMT.com and save Indian Medical Transcription

The following is the personal opinion of the Editor of BangaloreMT.com ....

It is really very illogical to make a general statement that Medical Transcription work done in India are of poor quality while those done in US or Britain are perfect.

Regardless of the location of work, a medical document has go through different levels.  First, the basic transcription/typing by a medical transcriptionist, then proofing at different levels by experienced/experts including medical doctors. If the number of levels of transcription/proofing/checking are decreased or if it done by inexperienced people, definitely there are going to be errors regardless of the country.

It should be also remembered that Indian Medical Transcriptionists use American/British softwares (like Quicklook, Stedmans) and American/British reference sites on internet to verify the drug name, dosage, etc.  Mistaking hypotension with hypertension will be done only by inexperienced ones.  The experienced ones will definitely search previous medical records of patient and look for other things like the value of blood pressure in the dictation. So be it any place, inexperienced tend to make mistakes, but not the experienced ones.

One should not compare an inexperienced Indian MT with an experienced MT of US.  At last, there are dictators who dictate clearly (even those who spell out the spelling of drugs) and other careless dictators who may dictate while chewing a bubble gum or dictate with their TV running loud in the background.

 So ultimately, it is not the location that matters, but medical transcriptionists and doctors,  who care !!!

In Multicultural India... We have a big heart...
We care  for people worldwide ... we respect patient privacy...

regards,
Editor.