MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION TRAINING
Medical transcription is the process of transcribing medical information from audio files. These files are recordings of healthcare practitioners’ voices. Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals record their notes, then the medical transcriptionist – meaning a professional transcriber with medical knowledge – types it up.
The medical transcription definition includes the transcribing of any dictated medical material, from case notes to lecture content. In some instances, physician dictation takes place over the phone. Increasingly, given the technology available these days, doctors’ dictation (and that of other medical professionals) is provided to the transcriber as a voice file through a smart phone app or over the internet.
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A medical transcriptionist is a transcriber who has in-depth medical knowledge. It is this knowledge requirement that makes medical transcription a specialised field.
The definition of medical transcription clearly assumes detailed medical knowledge and experience on the part of the transcriber. Without such experience, the process of producing the medical transcript would be long and arduous. I’m not saying it couldn’t be done by an intelligent transcriber without a medical background, but it would take much, much longer and be a far less efficient and cost-effective task.
The reason that medical knowledge is a requirement for this specialised area of transcription is because medical transcribing involves:
- Compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Extensive medical terminology knowledge
- Experience in the medical field
- Pharmaceutical terminology knowledge.
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