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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.
- Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
- Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.
- 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.
- 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.
- Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
- Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws.
- 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.
- Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
- Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
- Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
Related Technology & Tools
- Dictaphones
- Laser facsimile machines
- Desktop computers
- Postage meters
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Notebook computers
- Laser printers
- Desktop transcribers
- Transcribing equipment
- Personal computers
- Voice recognition software
- Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker
- Web browser software
- Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
- Microsoft Word
- Emmaus MPWord
- g-net solutions MTP
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- Narratek Smartype
- Patient billing software
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
- Spreadsheet software
- Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
- Data entry software
- Microsoft Excel
- Corel WordPerfect
- Sylvan Software ShortCut
- Calendar software
- PCC EHR
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Microsoft Outlook
- Sylvan Software DropChute Pro
- Electronic medical record EMR systems
- SpectraMedi EasyFlow
- Medical terminology databases
- Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
- FileMaker Pro
- Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
- Database software
- SpeedUp Trans
- Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical
- Email software
- dBASE Plus
- Word processing software
- SpeedType
- Spellex AccuCount
- Microsoft Windows