Job Description for
Medical
Transcriptionist
Health Information
Management
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Reports To
Director of Health Information Management
Job Summary
Under general supervision, a Medical Transcriptionist transcribes reports and records dictated by
physicians and other health professionals involving a wide variety of difficult medical terminology such
as x-ray and surgical reports, patient histories, physical examinations, consultations, discharge
summaries, pathology tissue reports, Emergency Room dictation, cardiopulmonary reports, and special
notes.
Duties
1. Transcribes minutes of medical conferences and meetings
2. Assists in maintaining and updates files
3. Makes new charts, retrieving old charts as necessary
4. Assigns and retrieves the work of the other clerical employees
5. Answers telephones
6. Prepares duplicates of reports to be sent to private physicians
7. Searches for information needed to complete records
8. Uses a variety of resource material to insure correct spelling, terminology and dates
9. Maintains record of daily production statistics
10. Distributes completed work as appropriate and does related work as required
Qualifications
1. 2 years of secretarial or stenographic experience
2. One year experience must be in transcribing medical records and reports requiring knowledge of
medical terminology
3. Word Processing familiarity is preferred
4. One year of specialized education or training above the high school level in medical transcription
may be substituted for the required year of experience as a medical Transcriptionist