An Exciting Profession!
Welcome to AHDPGTM Healthcare Documentation Blog! We are a workforce development company that specializes in education and career development in allied healthcare through healthcare documentation. One of our program offerings, medical transcription, is an area to explore.
Medical transcription is an exciting profession in the expanding world of healthcare documentation. If you are looking for a portable career that will allow you to work from home, you’ve come to the right place!
Wondering exactly what a Medical Transcriptionist does? We create healthcare documentation from the dictated words of healthcare providers. We play a very important role in the healthcare delivery process, by creating the documents that tell the patient’s story.
Why Become a Medical Transcriptionist/Speech Recognition Editor?
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates a 26% increase in the need for this profession in the next several years, and there’s currently a shortage of trained and certified MT professionals to fill the demand. With the move toward Electronic Health Records, there will be even more opportunities. And certified medical transcriptionist or speech recognition editors have the potential to earn more than $33,500 a year while working from home.