Medical Transcription

Medical transcription can help tie up loose ends as they pertain to the collection and storage (and subsequent retrieval) of data as it relates to the medical profession. Because we have moved away from a paper based model of patient record keeping so fast, it is easy to come up against problems as it relates [...]

Medical transcription is a fascinating field. It starts with a doctor or healthcare professional supplying a report to a medical transcriptioner that can either be hand written or recorded digitally or on a cassette. After this, the medical transcription process takes place. It is the duty of the medical transcriptioner to listen to the recording [...]

With voice recognition software starting to become commonplace in the field of medical transcription, it is worth considering the skills and abilities of professional medical transcriptions before moving to an automated system of record transcription. The knowledge that a medical transcription has regarding medical terminology, anatomy and physiology is almost on par with that of [...]

Healthcare professionals are required to give reports on a patient’s progress as it relates to the treatment they have received, current status as a patient and how they are responding to their treatment. This is a lot of data. In order to report all of this data many healthcare professionals have responded to the mammoth [...]

Automated medical transcription that utilises advanced voice recognition software such as continuous speech recognition is a great way to save time and reduce the costs of having voice recorded records transcribed by another person. However, continuous speech recognition software is not flawless in its translation. You may find that the software will not actually recognise [...]

Medical transcription offers a variety of advantages compared to old paper based models of sharing patient records. Because they are reliant on actual voice recordings that have been made by healthcare professionals during recent consultations it allows for an easy method to share current patient data electronically. This then can then be easily inserted onto [...]

Whilst it may seem like a fairly uninteresting career choice, working in the field of medical transcription is a fairly interesting field. Previously, people who worked in the field of medical transcription had the daunting task of converting a healthcare professional’s handwritten notes into a digital or type written format. Modern medical transcription executives generally [...]