Medical Transcription By Datascribe Transcription

What is Medical Transcription?Medical Transcription is a process of converting physician dictated audio into text format. Physician dictation would include any type of medical treatment, procedure, diagnosis etc. These documents should be recorded into patient’s permanent medical record.

It was late in the 20th century Medical Transcription was introduced and became popular. Initially medical stenographers were introduced to take down the doctor’s dictation and transcribe to text format. Over the years the revolution changed and audio recording devices were introduced to record doctor's dictation.

In the recent years, health industry has grown vast and improvised.With the introduction of the medical transcription, maintaining patient’s health record has been replaced from hard paper copy to electronic storage.It helps patients in maintaining all the health records at one place with easy access anywhere.

This growth in the health industry led to the growth of outsourcing companies who provide medical transcription. Medical transcription companies train candidates who are know as medical transcriptionist.Transcriptionist job is to convert physician dictation into text format and send back to the physician.

Transcriptionist will be trained for 6 months with all the necessary medical terminologies necessary for the transcription.Transcribed text files will be sent to the physicians according to the format they have asked. Each physician will expect in different format of files.

Currently, growing number of medical providers offering transcription services has attracted many software companies to introduce software's for recoding doctor’s dictation and providing transcription in short period of time.Livescribe, voice recognition are some of the software’s which ease the work for transcriptionist.

Benefits of TranscriptionIt helps in electronically maintenance of health record of a patient at one place. This indeed helps in saving time while consultation with the doctor. Physician can go through the records and can act on patient within minimal time.