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