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The field of medical transcription, like any other field, is expected to be influenced by growing trends as it moves toward the future.

Since medical transcriptionists charge for their services, they need to have a regular, predictable means of billing their clients. But how much should you charge, and how should you go about it?

Although conventional wisdom has it that speech-recognition technology, which automatically generates text from the spoken word, could one day replace medical transcriptionists, the need for a human touch in discerning language nuances ensures that flesh-and-blood transcriptionists will always be in demand.

Medical transcriptionist Valarie Barrett, like many other transcriptionists, works out of her home, typing up medical reports on her home computer.