Description
Medical transcriptionists interpret dictated information from the doctor or other healthcare professionals and convert it into documents. They create, format and edit medical records for patients based on the provided data and take care to apply punctuation and grammar rules.
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Theoretical Knowledge
Practical Skills
maintain healthcare user data confidentialityuse electronic health records management systemapply grammar and spelling rulesarchive healthcare users' recordsapply organisational techniquesuse word processing softwaremanage digital archivesedit dictated medical textscomply with legislation related to health caretranscribe medical dataexecute working instructionswork in multidisciplinary health teamstransfer medical informationmanage digital documentsdisplay medical problemsliaise with typistsuse shorthandidentify patients' medical recordscollect healthcare user's general datause databasesprocess dataperform backupsreview patient's medical datahandle paperworkperform clinical coding proceduresparticipate in medical records' auditing activities