Work At Home in the Medical Field

Work At Home as a Typing Medical Transcriptions

This is a very lucritive work at home business opportunity. All you need is a good typewriter, computer based transcription equipment, and a course. The courses are usually less than $2 000.00. This is the best work at home for single moms, or other people who need to start making a full time income within a few months.

Once you pass the course, just contact local doctors. Work at Home transcriptionists are much cheaper than have medical secretaries or agencies do the work.

It is a demanding job, there is no 'pick your own hours', unless you sign up with an agency. This work at home opportunity is great for any stay at home parent, retired secretary, unemployed university graduate, or someone looking to make a solid career change


Physicians Can Get HealthCare Information on Their PDAs

Epocrates, www.epocrates.com, offers web-based information designed to improve patient care. The premium version more than 400 alternative medicine monographs, patient education handouts, pill pictures, pill identifier and hundreds of medical tables and calculations.

Epocrates San Mateo, CA-based Epocrates is transforming the practice of medicine by deploying leading-edge technologies that improve communication. Their clinical network connects 500,000 healthcare professionals, ne in four U.S. physicians and one in two U.S. medical students. Epocrates was recently ranked 257 in the 24th annual Inc.500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. In addition to an extensive drug guide, the product includes formulary information for more than 130 health plans and hundreds of Medicare Part D formularies.

Take a look at what they have to offer on their Altace page.

Epocrates Inc. announced today their online version of its mobile drug and formulary guide. Epocrates Online provides clinicians with access to critical information about more than 3,300 drugs, including dosing, pricing, potential drug interactions and Medicare Part D formulary coverage from any computer with an Internet connection.

“I’ve been using Epocrates products on my PDA for years and find them indispensable to my practice. I think it is wonderful that my colleagues and staff that don’t yet use a PDA can now access the same information online to help them improve patient care,” said Jacob Wood, MD, assistant professor, UAB Selma Family Residency Program.

Many clinicians rely on Epocrates products for all clinical reference needs. They claim to save up to 30 minutes a day. “The new online offering will help us grow our network beyond the healthcare professionals that currently use our PDA-based applications,” said Kirk Loevner, Epocrates chairman and chief executive officer. “Epocrates Online also provides us with the opportunity to develop content and services that are optimized for an online platform.”