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