30-08-2017, 11:25 AM
Medical Transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or the conversion of recorded voice reports dictated by doctors or other health professionals, in text format. Medical records have been kept since humans began writing, as attested by ancient cave writings. Medical transcription as it is known today has existed since the early twentieth century, when standardization of medical data became critical for research. At that time, medical stenographers replaced doctors as medical recorders, taking dictation of doctors in shorthand. With the creation of audio recording devices, it became possible for physicians and their transcripts to work asynchronously, thus starting the profession of health documentation as we know it today.
Over the years, the transcription team has switched from manual typewriters to electric typewriters to text-to-computer processors and from plastic disks to magnetic tapes to cassettes and endless loops and digital recordings. Today, voice recognition (SR), also known as continuous speech recognition (CSR), is increasingly used, with medical transcriptions and / or "editors" providing complementary editorial services, although there are occasional cases where SR completely replaces the MT. Natural language processing leads to "automatic" transcription a step further, providing an interpretive function that speech recognition alone does not provide (although Ms.
In the past, these medical reports consisted of very abbreviated handwritten notes that were added in the patient record for interpretation by the primary physician responsible for the treatment. Ultimately, this clutter of handwritten notes and typed reports were consolidated into a single patient file and physically stored along with thousands of other patient records on a wall of file cabinets in the Medical Records Department. Whenever the need arises to review the records of a specific patient, the patient's file would be retrieved from the filing cabinet and delivered to the requesting physician. To improve this manual process, many medical records were produced in duplicate or triplicate by carbon copy.
Over the years, the transcription team has switched from manual typewriters to electric typewriters to text-to-computer processors and from plastic disks to magnetic tapes to cassettes and endless loops and digital recordings. Today, voice recognition (SR), also known as continuous speech recognition (CSR), is increasingly used, with medical transcriptions and / or "editors" providing complementary editorial services, although there are occasional cases where SR completely replaces the MT. Natural language processing leads to "automatic" transcription a step further, providing an interpretive function that speech recognition alone does not provide (although Ms.
In the past, these medical reports consisted of very abbreviated handwritten notes that were added in the patient record for interpretation by the primary physician responsible for the treatment. Ultimately, this clutter of handwritten notes and typed reports were consolidated into a single patient file and physically stored along with thousands of other patient records on a wall of file cabinets in the Medical Records Department. Whenever the need arises to review the records of a specific patient, the patient's file would be retrieved from the filing cabinet and delivered to the requesting physician. To improve this manual process, many medical records were produced in duplicate or triplicate by carbon copy.