Medical Transcription and the US-India Time Difference

Doctors and other medical professionals across USA treat diseases and take care of the sick all day long. But just treating or curing is not enough. The why, what, how, and when details of every single patient that walked into a hospital has to go on digital record as is required by law. So after finishing every single process /procedure doctors are seen talking in and recording into Dictaphones.

Who will listen to these miles of hi-tech tapes? Well that is the medical transcription professional's job who must transcribe every uttered word into text to be stored as printed or electronic data and to become accessible in the future worldwide if required. Actually medical transcription has always been there since ages. The medical transcribers of yesteryears were usually those who assisted the doctors and manually made note of the patient and the treatment details.

Outsourcing of Medical transcription to Asia is very favorable. Of course primarily because Indian labor is good and cheaper and also because of the low TAT (Turn Around Time). All voice recordings are sent can get transcribed by the next day morning itself. Is it that someone sits all night and transcribes those tapes? Yes and No. Let me explain. The days audio files are daily sent by evening to India where it is now day break. (due to the natural 12 hour time difference) The data is then transcribed during the day (Indian day) and uploaded back via the Internet to the US in the evening (Indian evening) where it is going to be dawn. So the doctors are happy when they come in next day and see all there yesterday's dictations in print or as transcripts. Now isn't that naturally convenient?

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