There is hardly a profession that does not have competition. And competition is good; it helps you strive for excellence. Some people are always a notch ahead of their peers. How can you get an edge over your competitors in the medical transcription profession? Let’s find out makes a medical transcriptionist better than another.

• No panic in crisis: You are an above-average medical transcriptionist if you don’t panic when faced with absolutely incomprehensible recordings, too many gaps in information, difficult doctors and reviewers, and extremely tight deadlines. Such situations are crisis situations that can make many a medical transcriptionist goof up their work.
• HIPAA-compliance: All transcriptionists working in an office can comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as their medical transcription company implements measures to keep patient data secure and confidential. A home-based transcriptionist, however, has to take measures on his/her own in order to ensure compliance with HIPAA. If you can ensure the confidentiality of patient information in all situations, you get an edge over others.
• Appropriate flagging: Medical document flagging is something that is not properly handled by all transcriptionists. If you flag documents appropriately every time, you prove yourself to be better than most transcriptionists.
• Integrity: This may be a debatable virtue but nothing beats integrity along with professionalism. A good transcriptionist will treat its employers’ work sacredly and consider the deadlines sacred. He/she will keep employers and client informed of any problems in meeting the deadlines, acknowledge his/her errors, and make sure the work doesn’t suffer in any way.

These are subtle differences but these simple things help you rise above the horde of transcriptionists out there. If you would like to know your marketability in the competitive times, get a medical transcription marketability analysis done.