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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
- Certified Professional Coder (CPC)
- Certified Medical Transcriptionist
- Certified Medical Coder
- Certified Coding Specialist
Tasks for “Data Transcriber”
- Receive and screen telephone calls and visitors.
- 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.
- Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.
- Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
- Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
- Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.
- Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient records.
- Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
- Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop transcribers
- Personal computers
- Transcribing equipment
- Postage meters
- Laser printers
- Dictaphones
- Laser facsimile machines
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Notebook computers
- Desktop computers
- Microsoft Outlook
- PCC EHR
- Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
- Medical terminology databases
- Emmaus MPWord
- SpectraMedi EasyFlow
- Email software
- Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
- Sylvan Software DropChute Pro
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- Microsoft Word
- Database software
- Voice recognition software
- FileMaker Pro
- Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
- dBASE Plus
- Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
- SpeedUp Trans
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- Spreadsheet software
- Narratek Smartype
- Patient billing software
- Data entry software
- Calendar software
- SpeedType
- Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
- Electronic medical record EMR systems
- Sylvan Software ShortCut
- g-net solutions MTP
- Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker
- Word processing software
- Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical
- Spellex AccuCount
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Windows
- Corel WordPerfect
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
- Microsoft Excel