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