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Role

AI for Medical Transcriptionists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

Medical Transcriptionists · O*NET 31-9094.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

12 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today

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AI you can use for this job

32 matched to the tools medical transcriptionists use. Showing 24.

The tools this job actually uses

43 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • eClinicalWorks EHR softwarehot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft ASP.NEThot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Allscripts healthcare automation software
  • Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
  • Bytescribe Development Company WavPlayer
  • Calendar software
  • Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
  • Crescendo Systems Corporation MedRite-XL
  • Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL
  • Database software
  • dBASE Plus
  • Electronic medical record EMR systems
  • Email software
  • Emmaus MPWord
  • FileMaker Pro
  • g-net solutions MTP
  • Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
  • Integrated Systems Management OmniMD
  • Medical terminology databases
  • MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
  • Narratek Smartype
  • Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking
  • Patient billing software
  • PCC EHR
  • Precision Data Solutions VoicePower
  • Prognosis Innovation Healthcare ChartAccess
  • SpectraMedi EasyFlow
  • Speech recognition software
  • SpeedType
  • SpeedUp Trans
  • Spellex AccuCount
  • Sylvan Software Complete Medical Pharmaceutical Spell Checker
  • Sylvan Software DropChute Pro

What this job involves

15 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 15.

  1. Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
  2. Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
  3. Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
  4. Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
  5. Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
  6. Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
  7. 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.
  8. Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records.
  9. Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.
  10. Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient records.
  11. Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.
  12. Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws.
  13. Perform a variety of clerical and office tasks, such as handling incoming and outgoing mail, completing and submitting insurance claims, typing, filing, or operating office machines.
  14. Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
  15. Receive and screen telephone calls and visitors.
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