MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION AS AAMT: Medical transcription has existed since the beginning of medical care and research. Ancient cave writings attest to the earliest forms of healthcare documentation. While the medium changed from metal plates to clay tablets, from hieroglyphs on temple walls, to papyrus, to parchment, to paper, and most recently to electronic files, the reasons for maintaining records have always been the same: to record an individual’s health care and the achievements of medical science. Until the twentieth century, physicians served both as providers of medical care and scribes for the medical community. After 1900, when standardization of medical data became critical to research, medical stenographers replaced physicians as scribes, taking their dictation in shorthand. The advent of dictation equipment made it unnecessary for physician and scribe to work face-to-face, and the career of medical transcription was born. As physicians came to rely on the judgment and deductive reasoning of experienced medical transcriptionists to safeguard the accuracy and integrity of medical dictation, medical transcription evolved into a medical language specialty. In the twenty-first century, some medical transcriptionists are using speech recognition technology to help them create even more documents in a shorter time. Medical transcription is one of the most sophisticated of the allied health professions, creating an important partnership between healthcare providers and those who document patient care.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:10:16 +0000
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