Medical Transcriber

This positions main Role & Responsibility is to type the reports.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Main job responsibilities of the Medical transcriptionist are as follows (but not limited to):

1. Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.

2. Distinguish between homonyms, and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.

3. Identify mistakes in reports, and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.

4. Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.

5. Produce medical reports, correspondence, records and patient-care information.

6. Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physicians' review, signature, and corrections, and for inclusion in patients' medical records.