Saturday, June 20, 2009

Doctors/Physicians joins Medical Transcription BPO

Moving into healthcare sector and medical transcription, the job opportunities for doctors and nurses in the country are getting widened, an industry expert said.

In a BPO firm, the job of a doctor can include medical billing, transcription and coding for the US hospitals.

Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals into text format.

However, some companies also provides high-end knowledge process outsourcing where a doctor is required to study the reports of elderly patients
and do risk assessment and prepare reports for health Insurance companies in the US.

At present, the IT services and business outsourcing company has 10 doctors in its team who does insurance claim processing, claim and long-term care management.

Dhawal, Head of HR of RtechMD a medical transcription service provider company said: "We generally hire doctors for training our workforce. The doctors in our firm also work as quality analyst for our medical transcription work."

RtechMD currently has 2 doctors on its roll. The doctors are also enjoying this corporate job which comes with fat pay-packet.