Tag Archives: Medical Transcription

Medical Transcription Could Address the Problem of Inconsistent EHR Documentation

Recording of physician notes and subsequent medical transcription to create transcripts is an effective means of ensuring that all clinical details are correctly documented. However, the entry of electronic health records has changed this practice and providers are now required … Continue reading

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Why Medical Transcription Is More Challenging than General Transcription

The role of a transcriptionist involves reproducing recorded dictation in accurate digital text format. The recorded content could be interviews, meetings, focus group discussions, single person dictations, voice mails and so on. Transcription generally falls under three broad headings – … Continue reading

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Quality Assurance for Health Care Documentation

Quality in health care documentation is crucial when it comes to ensuring proper and timely health care. In view of this, the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) has paid down best practices to assure quality, timeliness and security in … Continue reading

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Medical Abbreviations that a Transcriptionist Should Know

Most often, physicians use abbreviations when they are dictating as it saves time. Knowledge about medical abbreviations is therefore quite critical in the medical transcription process. Only medical transcriptionists who are well-versed in these abbreviations can produce a quality report … Continue reading

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Consultation Reports in Medical Transcription

A consultation (CONS) report is among the ‘Big Four’ reports in medical transcription work and is typically requested by a primary care physician from a specialist for an expert opinion regarding a particular diagnosis or illness. In addition to primary … Continue reading

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Need for Accurate Documentation While Prescribing Drugs for Insomnia

Proper diagnosis of insomnia is important to prescribe appropriate drugs. Insomnia or sleeplessness may be due to a mental disorder, or a medical condition; it may be psycho-physiologic insomnia, idiopathic insomnia and so on. Unless the nature of the actual … Continue reading

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Knowledge of Common ER Slang Terms Helps Improve Emergency Room Transcription

A medical transcription professional will have to handle diverse medical specialties and scenarios and one crucial area is emergency room transcription. ER documentation is quite challenging compared to types of medical transcription. In ER, the patient condition fluctuates based on … Continue reading

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Use of HIT in Physician Offices Will Significantly Reduce Future Demand for Physician Services

A Commonwealth Fund-Supported study published in Health Affairs in November 2013 says that the proliferation of health information technology (HIT) across physician offices will substantially reduce the future demand for physician services in the U.S. Health information technology adoption includes … Continue reading

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How Gastroenterology Transcription Services Help Doctors

Gastroenterology transcription involves transcribing data related to various conditions of the abdomen including liver disorders. The symptoms of liver disorders can be so uncharacteristic that one wouldn’t associate them with anything connected with the liver. Gastroenterologists play an important role is deciphering … Continue reading

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How to Improve Typing Speed – A Much Needed Skill for a Medical Transcriptionist

Excellent typing speed is a much-needed skill for a medical transcriptionist, along with a number of other skills such as accuracy, grammar and in-depth knowledge of medical terminology. The aim should be to have reasonably good speed with few typing … Continue reading

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