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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
- 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
- Certified Coding Specialist
Tasks for “Registered Medical Transcriptionist”
- 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.
- Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
- Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
- Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
- Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
- Receive and screen telephone calls and visitors.
- Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
- Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
- Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
- Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records.
- Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws.
- 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.
- Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Transcribing equipment
- Desktop computers
- Laser printers
- Personal computers
- Dictaphones
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Desktop transcribers
- Postage meters
- Notebook computers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Narratek Smartype
- Calendar software
- Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
- dBASE Plus
- Database software
- Microsoft Outlook
- FileMaker Pro
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Windows
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
- PCC EHR
- Web browser software
- Voice recognition software
- Medical terminology databases
- Microsoft Word
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- Email software
- Data entry software
- Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
- Electronic medical record EMR systems
- SpectraMedi EasyFlow
- SpeedUp Trans
- Corel WordPerfect
- Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Spreadsheet software
- Patient billing software
- g-net solutions MTP
- Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical
- Sylvan Software DropChute Pro
- Sylvan Software ShortCut
- Emmaus MPWord
- Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
- SpeedType
- Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
- Spellex AccuCount