Medical Transcriptionists as Professionals

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Medical Transcriptionists as Professionals

The industry is moving toward electronic health records, allowing storage of an individual's health history so that it can be accessed by physicians and healthcare providers anywhere.

Physicians and other healthcare providers employ state-of-the-art electronic technology to dictate and transmit highly technical and confidential information for their patients. These medical professionals rely on skilled medical transcriptionists to transform spoken words into comprehensive records that accurately communicate medical information. Sometimes speech recognition systems are used as an intermediary to translate the medical professional's dictation into rough draft. The medical transcriptionist then further refines it into a finished document.

Keyboarding and transcription should not be confused. The primary skills necessary for performance of quality medical transcription are extensive medical knowledge and understanding, sound judgment, deductive reasoning, and the ability to detect medical inconsistencies in dictation. For example, a diagnosis inconsistent with the patient's history and symptoms may be mistakenly dictated. The medical transcriptionist questions, seeks clarification, verifies the information, and enters it into the report.

[dudleyb]

These people are not less than the IT professional .They also try to earn as much as the latter does.
I have found one interesting link which gives report about the salary of such professionals.
http://www.squidoo.com/medicaltranscriptionsalaries