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What Is Medical
Transcription? Submitted By: Greg Heslin In recent years the medical
field has been going to great lengths to provide ways for doctors to spend
more quality time with their patients and less time doing paperwork and
updating files. To hone in on this problem the medical transcription profession
was created. Medical transcriptionists, MTs, originally served as secretaries
to medical professionals who dictated detailed patient information. The
MTs in turn spent hours retyping the dictation on typewriters in order
to document
it in the patients’ permanent files. Over the years, however, there
has been an abundance of modern technology created to make the MT’s
job easier and more accurate. Typewriters have been replaced with high-tech
analog recorders and phone diction systems that allow medical professionals
to dictate what they want included in the records. According to the U.S.
Department of Labor, doctors can dictate patient histories, operation
reports, autopsy reports,
progress notes, referral letters, and other documents for MTs to transcribe.
After the dictation process is complete, the (data
entry) medical transcriptionists listen to the information and write
everything in a clear and grammatically correct fashion, making the files
easier to read and understand. The MTs then send the document back to the
professional who dictated it to review and revise the document before signing
off for its completion. After this process is complete, the final revised
copy will become part of the patient’s permanent record.Click
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