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