Medical Transcription has
undergone some great changes over the years largely due
to technology. The need for accurate note keeping will never change, but
the methods of recording this information have made dramatic
advances.
Many doctors used to just scratch
a note in the patient's chart while they were in the exam room. That
is not so common anymore.
Some doctors will walk around with a hand
held tape recorder and talk into it all day long. That tape then gets
sent to someone to be transcribed. The most up to date way to
get transcription done today is for the doctor to phone in his
records. The doctor sits at the phone and gives all the notes on his
or her patients to a recording which goes to a tracscription company.
The transcription company
that he phones them into then transcribes them to the doctor's online
site. With this method the doctor can access his records from anywhere,
home, vacation, the hospital!
This method cuts way down
on the paper in the office, as well as making it easier for
the doctor to access the patients records. This can be very important in case
of emergencies.
Most larger clinics have
computers right in the exam rooms and enter the office visit
information right into the database during or directly after the visit.
The information is then stored automatically.
