Medical Transcription

Put simply, medical transcription is converting voice recorded reports made by a professional medical doctor or healthcare practitioner into text. This is especially useful for healthcare professionals who have a massive amount of clients and do not have time to type up reports that are relevant to every single client that they are responsible for. It also allows healthcare professionals to convert their notes that may be taken during a consultation via voice recording into a text format that can then be easily transferred into a report at a later date. With advances in the field of voice recognition technology – particularly as it relates to continuous speech recognition – medical transcription is starting to become an automated process.

Medical transcription has a fairly rich history. Healthcare professionals in the past relied on handwritten notes that they had generated during consultations in order to base their reports. Because they were often abbreviated heavily and jargon was used as a primary means of getting the point across, this primitive method of medical transcription was not sustainable and was heavily reliant on massive amounts of paper. This is especially true if you consider that many records had to be kept in triplicate. The advent of portable voice recording technology was what turned this specific niche industry on its head.

The advent of portable voice recording devices coupled with an electronic means of storing documents opened up the door for what we now know as medical transcription. It allows healthcare professionals to take notes on the fly and then have their notes recorded electronically so that they do not have to be reproduced physically from a single physical document. It also allows an easy method to share patient reports via an electronic means. Medical transcription is a service that is offered by specialist companies in the field.