The Role of Medical Transcriptionists in Medical Transcription Services

Medical Transcription Services

In this electronic healthcare era, medical transcription service company play a vital role, by providing medical reports or related documents with the help of highly skilled professionals; who transcribes the spoken dictation by physician or healthcare professions.

Who is medical transcriptionist?

‘Medical transcriptionists’ or generally known as ‘Healthcare documentation specialists’, manages to write medical reports, their main job is to listen to voice recordings of physicians/healthcare workers and convert them into physical text reports.

They are also responsible to review, edit and finalizing the medical documents produced with speech recognition technology.

Medical Transcriptionists also interprets medical terminology and abbreviations (used by doctors while patient was under treatment) in preparing patients’ medical histories/reports, discharge summaries, and other required medical documents.

Qualification of medical transcriptionist?

As such there is no specific course to be taken to become a medical transcriptionist, still it’s suggested that one should be at least graduate (in any stream).


 Medical transcriptionists typically need good listening and analytical skills; so that he can interpret the sentences in proper manner and his ready reports should convey the messag, as given by physician.

Following skills are also required to deliver expected results in this profile:


    Understanding of medical terminology

    Anatomy and physiology knowledge

    Sentence narration, spellings & grammar

    Computer skills, specially with M.S office

    Good typing speed

Career Options

Depending upon time one can devote to your job, because it could be taken as part time job as well.

As a medical transcriptionist one have 3 options to choose from:

1)    Hospitals, physicians' offices

2)    Third-party medical transcription service company

3)    Self-employed

Translation tower is one of the reliable companies, who provide transcription services to healthcare establishments or any other institutions or individual from related field, who needs any such services at affordable rates.