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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 Transcriber
- Medical Secretary
- Medical Language Specialist
- Documentation 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 Transcription
- Medical Stenographer
- Medical Record Transcriber
- Medical Coding Technician
- Medical Administrative Specialist
- Data Transcriber
- Certified Professional Coder (CPC)
- Certified Medical Transcriptionist
- Certified Medical Coder
- Certified Coding Specialist
Tasks for “Medical Transcription”
- Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.
- 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.
- Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient 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.
- Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
- Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
- Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
- Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
- 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 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 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.
- Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
Related Technology & Tools
- Transcribing equipment
- Notebook computers
- Laser printers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Dictaphones
- Desktop transcribers
- Desktop computers
- Postage meters
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Personal computers
- Microsoft Windows
- Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
- Emmaus MPWord
- Microsoft Outlook
- Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical
- Data entry software
- Word processing software
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Microsoft Excel
- Database software
- Patient billing software
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
- dBASE Plus
- Spellex AccuCount
- Web browser software
- Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
- Sylvan Software ShortCut
- Corel WordPerfect
- FileMaker Pro
- SpeedUp Trans
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
- Email software
- g-net solutions MTP
- Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
- Voice recognition software
- Medical terminology databases
- SpectraMedi EasyFlow
- Sylvan Software DropChute Pro
- Microsoft Word
- Calendar software
- PCC EHR
- Electronic medical record EMR systems
- Spreadsheet software
- Narratek Smartype
- SpeedType
- Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker