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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”
- 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.
- Receive and screen telephone calls and visitors.
- 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.
- Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient records.
- Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.
- 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.
- Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws.
- Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Transcribing equipment
- Laser facsimile machines
- Notebook computers
- Desktop transcribers
- Laser printers
- Dictaphones
- Postage meters
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Personal computers
- Sylvan Software ShortCut
- Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
- Microsoft Windows
- Corel WordPerfect
- Microsoft Word
- Spellex AccuCount
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Outlook
- dBASE Plus
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
- g-net solutions MTP
- Database software
- Emmaus MPWord
- Calendar software
- Medical terminology databases
- Microsoft Excel
- FileMaker Pro
- Sylvan Software DropChute Pro
- SpeedType
- Data entry software
- Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
- Spreadsheet software
- Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
- PCC EHR
- Email software
- Voice recognition software
- Word processing software
- Patient billing software
- SpeedUp Trans
- Electronic medical record EMR systems
- Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
- SpectraMedi EasyFlow
- Narratek Smartype