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