Question

Briefly research one (1) of the following careers online: medical transcription, medical coding, medical billing, medical assisting (MA), nurse assisting (NAC). What roles does the professional play in a hospital setting? How are its jobs important to the billing life cycle and income of the institution? Post a link to information about medical coding, billing, MA or NAC that is touch-activated.

Answer 1

Medical transcription:

Medical transcription,also known as MT is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians,nurses anad other healthcare practitioners.Medical reports can be voice files,notes taken during lecture,or other spoken material.These are dictated over the phone or uploaded digiatlly via the internet or through smart phone apps.

Medical transcription is a part of the healthcare industry that renders and edits doctors dictated reports,procedures and notes in an electronic format in order to create files representing the treatment history of patients.Health practioners dictate what they have done after performing procedures on patients and MT's transcribe the oral dictation and/or edit reports that have gone through speech recognition software.

Patient's up to date,confidential patient information is converted to a written text document by a medical transcriptionist.This text may be printed and placed in the patient's record and/or retained only in its electronic format.Medical trenacription can be performed by a MTs who are employees in a hospital or who work at home as telecommunicating employees for the hospital,or independent contractors for the outsourced service that perform the work offsite under contract to a hospital,clinic,physician group or other healthcare provider,or working directly for the providers of the service.The electronic storage in their database gives immediate access to sunsequent departments or providers regarding the patients care to date,or notation of previous medications.

The term transcript or "report" as it is more commonly called,is used as the name of the document which results from the medical trenacription process,normally in reference to the healthcare professionals specific encounter with the patient on specific date of service.This report is referred to by many as "medical report".Each specific transcribed record or report,with its own specific date of service,is then merged and becomes the part of the larger parient record commonly known as patient's medical history.

Medical transcription encompasses the MT,performing document typing and formatting functions according to an established criterion or format,transcribing the spoken word of the patient's care information into the written,easily readable form.MT requires correct spelling of all terms and words,correcting the medical technology or dictation errors.All transcriptio reports must comply with medico-leal concerns,policies and procedures,and laws under patient confidentiality.

In transcribing directly for a doctor or a group of physicians,there are specific formts and reports types used,depending on that doctor's speciality of practice,although history and physical exams or consults are mainly utilized.

Medical transcription is still the primary mechanism for physician to clearly communicate with other healthcare providers who access the patient's record,to advise them on the state of patient's health and past/current treatment,and to assure continuity of care.More recently,a written report(IME) become the requirement for the documentation of medical bll or application for worker's compensation insurence benifits based on requirements of federal and state agencies.

It is very important to have properly formatted,edited and reviewed medical transcription document.If medical transcriptionist accidentally typed a wrong medications or wrong diagnosis ,the patient could be at risk if the doctor dis not review the document for accuracy.Both the doctor and MT play and important role to make sure the transcribed dictation is correct and accurate.

Medical transcription editing is the process of listening to a voice-recorded file and comparing that to a transcribed report of that audio file,correcting errors as needed.Medical transcription editing is also performed on medical reports transcribed by medical transcriptionist.