Jobs / Healthcare / 31-9094.00
Medical Transcriptionists
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
- US jobs
- 41,550
- Median wage
- $40,410 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of medical transcriptionists?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 60%Prepare health or medical documentsNot measured
- 18%Perform administrative or clerical activitiesNot measured
- 12%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 3%Execute financial transactionsNot measured
- 3%Schedule appointmentsNot measured
- 2%Explain medical information to patients or family membersNot measured
- 2%Respond to customer problems or inquiriesNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
- Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
- Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
- Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
- Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
- Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
- Set up and maintain medical files and databases, including records such as x-ray, lab, and procedure reports, medical histories, diagnostic workups, admission and discharge summaries, and clinical resumes.
- Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records.
- Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.
- Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.
- Perform a variety of clerical and office tasks, such as handling incoming and outgoing mail, completing and submitting insurance claims, typing, filing, or operating office machines.
- Decide which information should be included or excluded in reports.
Other job titles for this occupation (26)
Clinical Medical Transcriptionist · Documentation Specialist · Medical Language Specialist · Medical Scribe · Medical Transcriber · Medical Transcriptionist · Pathology Transcriptionist · Radiology Transcriptionist · Scribe · Transcriptionist · Certified Medical Transcriptionist · Clinical Scribe · Data Transcriber · Emergency Medical Scribe · Medical Assistant Scribe (MA Scribe) · Medical Language Professional · Medical Record Transcriber · Medical Records Clerk · Medical Stenographer · Medical Transcription Editor · Ophthalmic Scribe · Provider Scribe · Registered Medical Transcriptionist · Transcriber · Transcribing Machine Operator · Transcription Specialist