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Job Description
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 31-9094.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,150.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 17.00
- Currently, there are 54,070 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Medical Transcriptionists”.
Also Known As…
- Medical Transcriptionists
- Transcriptionist
- Radiology Transcriptionist
- Medical Transcriptionist
- Medical Transcription Supervisor
- Medical Transcription
- Medical Transcriber
- Medical Secretary
- Medical Language Specialist
- Documentation Specialist
- Clinical Medical Transcriptionist
- Transcription Specialist
- Transcription Coordinator
- Transcribing Machine Operator
- Transcriber
- Senior Medical Transcriptionist
- Registered Medical Transcriptionist
- Radiology Transcriptionist/Radiology Clerk
- Provider Scribe
- Pathology Transcriptionist
- Medical Transcription-Radiology
- Medical Transcription Editor
- Medical Stenographer
- Medical Record Transcriber
- Medical Coding Technician
- Medical Administrative Specialist
- Data Transcriber
- Certified Professional Coder (CPC)
- Certified Medical Transcriptionist
- Certified Medical Coder
Tasks for “Certified Coding Specialist”
- Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws.
- Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records.
- Perform a variety of clerical and office tasks, such as handling incoming and outgoing mail, completing and submitting insurance claims, typing, filing, and operating office machines.
- Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
- Set up and maintain medical files and databases, including records such as x-ray, lab, and procedure reports, medical histories, diagnostic workups, admission and discharge summaries, and clinical resumes.
- Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
- Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
- Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient records.
- Receive and screen telephone calls and visitors.
- Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
- Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.
- Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.
- Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
- Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
- Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
Related Technology & Tools
- Dictaphones
- Transcribing equipment
- Laser facsimile machines
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Personal computers
- Laser printers
- Desktop transcribers
- Postage meters
- Desktop computers
- Notebook computers
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Excel
- Sylvan Software ShortCut
- Electronic medical record EMR systems
- Email software
- dBASE Plus
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- SpectraMedi EasyFlow
- Narratek Smartype
- Microsoft Word
- SpeedUp Trans
- Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker
- Microsoft Outlook
- Corel WordPerfect
- Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
- Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
- Sylvan Software DropChute Pro
- Spreadsheet software
- Medical terminology databases
- g-net solutions MTP
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- SpeedType
- Web browser software
- Spellex AccuCount
- Voice recognition software
- Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
- Emmaus MPWord
- Data entry software
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
- PCC EHR
- Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
- FileMaker Pro
- Calendar software
- Patient billing software
- Microsoft Windows
- Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical
- Database software