She’s a pro at working from home: River Mist Transcription Services thriving business for Grand Island woman

By Robert Pore for The Grand Island Independent While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to innovate at the workplace, many of those strategies, such as working remotely at home, were in place prior to the spread of the virus and were …

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Medical Transcription: Still Room In-House

By Elizabeth S. Goar for For the Record Step inside several departments that have—in one form or another—survived the overwhelming trend toward outsourcing. It’s not breaking news to say that a significant majority of hospitals have outsourced their medical transcription departments to …

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10 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance

From Transcribe Everywhere Whether you work from home… or you work a 9-to-5 job, we all face one challenging goal together. A work-life balance. Am I spending too much time with work and not enough on family? Am I too stressed out …

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Common Challenges Transcriptionists Face and How to Handle Them: Part Two

By Transcribe Anywhere We previously discussed how to deal with poor audio quality, an issue that deserved its very own blog post! Today we are going to discuss other common challenges transcriptionists face, from boredom to bodily aches and pains and more. …

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3 Tools to Help You Organize Your Transcription Business

By Transcribe Anywhere Having many transcription clients is a great problem to have. More work means more money, right? But sometimes staying organized can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are resources you can use to help keep track of deadlines, formats, or anything else …

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The Modern Transcriptionist: Interviews with Amy and Kelly

Over the last few decades, transcriptionists have faced several shifts in their career. New technology, like voice recognition in the medical field, forced some transcriptionists to make career changes. However, thriving transcriptionists, like Amy and Kelly, are still around and find success …

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Text Expanders for Transcriptionists

By Tyler Marshall for Allegis Transcription How to Start Transcribing with a Text Expander Recently, we surveyed several hundred transcriptionists on their usage of text expanders and, to our surprise, discovered that only about 70 percent use text expansion. If you’re not …

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Olympus DS-9500 vs Philips DPM8000: Your Digital Recorder Guide

By Rachel Tirabassi Since it’s release in 2013, the Philips DPM8000 has been a longtime bestseller at TranscriptionGear.com. However, the new DS-9500 from Olympus could easily take its top spot. The new recorder is changing industry standards with its unique WiFi capabilities …

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20 Strange Noises Transcriptionists Hear on Audio Recordings

Why can’t the audio file always sound clear and concise with zero interruptions? We asked transcriptionists from our Facebook page to comment some of their most awkward, funny and rude experiences they’ve had while transcribing. Their responses were spot on! Check out …

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Online Research Tools for Transcriptionists

By Tyler Marshall for Allegis Transcription Using Research Techniques to Improve Your Transcription Accuracy What if I told you that Google can make you a better transcriptionist? Google, along with other online research tools, is an excellent tool for getting answers and …

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