medical transcriptionist
Medical transcriptionists interpret dictated information from the doctor or other healthcare professionals and convert it into documents. They create, format and edit medical records for patients based on the provided data and take care to apply punctuation and grammar rules.
Also called: medical transcriptionist and proof reader, medical transcription suite typist, clinical transcriber, clinical transcription typist, clinical transcription suite typist, medical secretary-audio typist, clinical transcriptionist, medical transcriber
- 15
- essential skills
- 20
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
15- apply grammar and spelling rules
- apply organisational techniques
- archive healthcare users' records
- comply with legislation related to health care
- database
- edit dictated medical texts
- execute working instructions
- grammar
- health records management
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage digital archives
- medical terminology
- transcribe medical data
- use electronic health records management system
- use word processing software
Optional skills
20- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- collect healthcare user's general data
- display medical problems
- handle paperwork
- health care system
- human anatomy
- identify patients' medical records
- liaise with typists
- manage digital documents
- medical informatics
- participate in medical records' auditing activities
- perform backups
- perform clinical coding procedures
- process data
- professional documentation in health care
- review patient's medical data
- transfer medical information
- use databases
- use shorthand
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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