It is a misconception among many of us that medical transcriptionists work in the outer limits of the healthcare delivery system. Actually medical transcriptionists play a significant role in healthcare documentation. The process of medical transcription begins once the patient consults a physician and seeks advice and treatment for the health problem. The physician then dictates details about the patient encounter using a recording machine. The digital recording is transcribed into text by a medical transcriptionist, and then sent back to the physician or healthcare professionals using a secure medium. Medical transcriptionists can deliver error-free text even in the face of common challenges such as different accents, mumbling in the conversation, slow or rapid speech or even dictation with disturbing background noise. These transcripts usually maintain a minimum accuracy of 98% and are used as a reference for physicians for future patient visits and ongoing care. While physicians can do the documentation on their own, transcriptionists and editors can identify and correct simple errors of binary confusion such as left or right, millimetre or centimetre – errors that might easily escape the notice of a physician writing his own notes. Voice Recognition vs. Medical Transcription Complex formatting such as boldface, italics, font changes, bulleted lists, indents, tables etc are problematic for voice recognition software. But complex formatting is not an issue for a medical transcriptionist. Take the case of radiologists who have to repeatedly shift visual attention and then dictate. Though the human brain can view things and speak at the same time, it is impossible to view images and type simultaneously.
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