I was a medical transcriptionist for 26 years. The hospital closed the dept. 3 years ago to have the work done in India via Focus Infomatics aka Nuance/Dictaphone. Between voice recognition and EMR, the profession is on life support. Over 100,000 Americans, mostly women, have seen their wages drop dramatically as they are now competing with workers in 3rd world countries. To top it off, those foreign MTs aren’t bound by the HIPAA laws and the HITEC act that American MTs were, so get ready for an explosion in identity theft.
Heck DRs don’t even want ICD-10. It keeps getting postponed.