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