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Medical Transcription: Using Shorthand While Transcribing

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Shorthand is a good compromise between AutoCorrect and Instant Text, if you are wanting something powerful, but not overly confusing. At $99.95, it is cheaper than Instant Text, although obviously not as cheap as AutoCorrect. 😉 If you want to try it out and see if it is right for you, you can try it free for 30 days and decide at the end of the … Continue reading →

Week in Review for April 28 – May 4

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Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for April 28 – May 4. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week–if you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in touch with me at Hava L {at} Families dot com! Thanks for reading! Saturday, April 28 Medical Transcription Schools: Andrews School, Part One starts off the Andrews interview series. Sunday, April 29 Medical Transcription Schools: Andrews School, Part Two and Part Three finishes that series with Linda of Andrew School. … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription: Using Instant Text While Transcribing

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Instant Text is the most powerful expander on the market. Comparing AutoCorrect to Instant Text is like comparing a baby kitten to a large powerful tiger–yeah sure they’re related, but they’re not exactly kissing cousins. That difference also shows up in the price tag: Free vs $189. If you pay $189 for something, it better do everything but the dinner dishes, and luckily, Instant Text does … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription: Using AutoCorrect While Transcribing

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. As I already said, AutoCorrect is a free program that comes with Word–no extra work has to be done to use it; if you have Word, you are set to go. (If you use Open Office, the same basic principles apply, although the set-up is going to be slightly different.) The upside to using AutoCorrect is that it is free; the downside is that its limitations … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription: Expanders are Your Friend

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. As any medical transcriptionist will tell you, expanders truly are your friend. For anyone new to the transcription business, a text expander is a program where you can type “hpi” and it will expand out to “History of Present Illness,” a phrase used often in the MT world. This is just one example–there are literally millions more. Text expanders, when used right, can save a transcriptionist … Continue reading →

An Introduction to Transcription

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Hello, and welcome to my series on the transcription field! I decided to focus on transcription because many of the readers here at Families are stay-at-home mothers and fathers who are interested in finding work they can do at home, and transcription is one of the few legitimate work-at-home jobs out there that does not require you to be on the phones all day long. I hope this series helps people who have never heard of the field to understand what it is, what personality traits you ought to have to be a transcriptionist, and how to get started if … Continue reading →