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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
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. | Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries. | |||
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Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology. | ||||
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Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine. | ||||
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Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records. | ||||
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Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records. | ||||
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Take dictation using either shorthand or a stenotype machine, or using headsets and transcribing machines; then convert dictated materials or rough notes to written form. | ||||
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Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information. | ||||
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Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians. | ||||
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Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material. | ||||
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Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports. | ||||
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Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient records. | ||||
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Receive and screen telephone calls and visitors. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Medical Transcriptionists
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Medicine and Dentistry | Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet | Word processing software | |||
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Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer | Word processing software | |||
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Calendar software | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Corel WordPerfect software | Word processing software | |||
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Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL | Medical software | |||
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Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL | Voice recognition software | |||
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Database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Electronic medical record EMR systems | Medical software | |||
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Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Emmaus MPWord | Word processing software | |||
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Integrated Systems Management OmniMD | Medical software | |||
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MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform | Medical software | |||
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Medical terminology databases | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Misys Healthcare Systems software | Medical software | |||
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Narratek Smartype | Word processing software | |||
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Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical | Voice recognition software | |||
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Patient billing software | Accounting software | |||
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Precision Data Solutions VoicePower | Word processing software | |||
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SpectraMedi EasyFlow | Medical software | |||
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SpeedType | Word processing software | |||
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SpeedUp Trans | Word processing software | |||
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Spellex AccuCount | Spell checkers | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker | Spell checkers | |||
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Sylvan Software DropChute Pro | Desktop communications software | |||
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Sylvan Software ShortCut | Word processing software | |||
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Voice recognition software | Voice recognition software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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dBase Plus | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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g-net solutions MTP | Voice recognition software | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Desktop transcribers | Dictation machines | |||
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Dictaphones | Dictation machines | |||
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Fax machines | Facsimile machines | |||
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Laser printers | Laser printers | |||
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Multi-line telephone systems | Special purpose telephones | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Postage meters | Franking or postage machines | |||
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Transcribing equipment | Dictation machines | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Required Level of Education | Some College Courses | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Certified Coding Specialist | |||
Certified Medical Coder | |||
Certified Medical Transcriptionist | |||
Certified Professional Coder (CPC) | |||
Data Transcriber | |||
Documentation Specialist | |||
Medical Administrative Specialist | |||
Medical Coding Technician | |||
Medical Language Specialist | |||
Medical Record Transcriber | |||
Medical Secretary | |||
Medical Stenographer | |||
Medical Transcriber | |||
Medical Transcription Supervisor | |||
Medical Transcriptionist | |||
Pathology Transcriptionist | |||
Radiology Transcriptionist | |||
Registered Medical Transcriptionist | |||
Transcribing Machine Operator | |||
Transcriptionist | |||
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