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.

1. Medical Transcription
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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Benefits of Transcription
It 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.