What is medical transcription and who is medical transcriptionist?
Medical transcription is an IT enabled service. It is among the most fascinating of allied health professions where a skilled person is engaged in the process of listening, interpreting, and typing in a specified format the dictation of the physician or any other medical professional regarding the patient’s assessment, followup treatment, clinical course, diagnoses, and other pertinent healthcare information in terms of document patient care and facilitate delivery of healthcare services. Transcriptionists have been misclassified as typist, medical word processors, medical secretaries, and dictating machine operators, but in fact medical transcriptionist is a healthcare specialist or we can also say medical communicator, as he ought to have adequate knowledge of medical terminology, i.e., related to anatomy and physiology, clinical medicine, surgery, diagnostic tests, radiology, pathology, pharmacology, and abbreviations in all specialties of medicine.
