There are three things that the medical transcription profession expects of you:

• Meeting deadlines
• Meeting quality goals
• and ensuring security and confidentiality of medical data

You can prove to be a good medical transcriptionist as long as you meet these expectations. While everyone tries to meet them, not everyone does. Let’s look at how a good medical transcriptionist scores over a bad one.

A good medical transcriptionist will not 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.

A good medical transcriptionist will always conform to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). All transcriptionists working in an office can comply with 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.

A good medical transcriptionist will flag documents appropriately. 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.

A good medical transcriptionist will treat its employers’ work sacredly and consider the deadlines sacred. He/she will keep employers and clients informed of any problems in meeting the deadlines, acknowledge his/her errors, and make sure the work doesn’t suffer in any way.