What exactly is medical transcription?
Medical transcription is a medical language specialty, which has become an indispensable element in the modern health care industry. It involves interpreting and recording dictations by physicians and other healthcare professionals regarding patient assessment, workup, therapeutic procedures, clinical course, diagnosis, prognosis, etc. It also includes modifying the dictation for grammar and clarity, as necessary and appropriate. Generally, the information is recorded either on a tape or a digital voice processing systems. Medical transcriptionists return the transcribed documents to the physician/provider for review and/or correction, which eventually becomes a part of the patients’ medical records. The health care industry relies on medical transcriptionists for accurate documentation of medical reports.
