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Medical transcription, the Glossary

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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 and other healthcare practitioners.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 33 relations: Allergy, Allied health professions, Application service provider, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Certification, Database, Dictated but not read, Dictation (exercise), Disability, Employment, Health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Health professional, Hospital, India, Insurance, Medical record, Pakistan, Philippines, Physician, Software, Speech recognition, Sri Lanka, Toronto Star, Typewriter, United Kingdom, United States, United States Department of Labor, Vermont, Word processor (electronic device).

  2. Transcription (linguistics)

Allergy

Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are various conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment.

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Allied health professions

Allied health professions (AHPs) are a group of health care professions that provide a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic, and support services in connection with health care, and which are distinct from the fields of dentistry, optometry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Medical transcription and Allied health professions are health care occupations.

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Application service provider

An application service provider (ASP) is a business providing application software generally through the Web.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Certification

Certification is part of testing, inspection and certification and the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements.

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Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.

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Dictated but not read

"Dictated but not read" is a phrase used at the end of a text to warn that the written material has not been personally written or verified by the author.

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Dictation (exercise)

Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken.

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Disability

Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996.

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Health professional

A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. Medical transcription and health professional are health care occupations.

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Hospital

A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury.

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Medical record

The terms medical record, health record and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction. Medical transcription and medical record are health informatics.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Medical transcription and physician are health care occupations.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Speech recognition

Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Word processor (electronic device)

A word processor is an electronic device (later a computer software application) for text, composing, editing, formatting, and printing.

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See also

Transcription (linguistics)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_transcription

Also known as Healthcare Documentation (Medical Transcription), Medical Transcriptionist, Transcript (medical).