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