How Many Specialties Use Medical Transcription Services?

If you've been reading our series about medical specialties and medical transcription then you might be asking, "How many specialties use MT services?"

The truth is, a lot. In fact, if the medical specialty can be performed in a hospital then there's a good chance they rely on medical transcriptionists to create and maintain accurate medical documents.

The list of employers a medical transcriptionist can work for include:

• Hospitals
• Individual physicians
• Doctors offices
• Freelance
• Medical transcription companies

If there is a medical practice somewhere then they are likely using medical transcription services. If they do not employ a medical transcriptionist in house then they likely contract with a service, either a medical transcription company or a freelancer, to have their medical documents done.

Since 40% of employed medical transcriptionists work for a hospital, there is a good chance that you'll spend a good deal of your time preparing specialized reports and documents for a particular department. What that really means to you is job security.