Description
Imagine that you are the supervisor of the transcription department. The HIM director has approached you about the future of the transcription role and the new emerging technology surrounding transcription. Prepare a PowerPoint slideshow that describes the current, traditional role and the future of transcription technology. Your presentation should be a minimum of 8 slides (including a Title slide and References slide) and address the following: 1. Title slide 2. Current, traditional role of transcription. 3. General explanation of speech recognition software and how it works. 4. Three (3) specific examples of new transcription technology and the specs of each system. You will need to research specific systems such as Dragon Professional. 5. The role of the medical scribe. 6. The changing role of transcriptionists and how they may adapt to the changes. 7. Your prediction of the future of transcription based on your research. 8. Include APA 7 formatted citations for your scholarly references.
Module 02 Written Assignment – The Future of Transcription Scoring Rubric:
| Criteria | Points |
| Provided an explanation of the current, traditional role of transcription | 3 |
| Discussed speech recognition software and how it works. | 3 |
| Provided 3 examples of new transcription technology and the specs of each system. | 6 |
| Described the role of the medical scribe. | 6 |
| Discussed the changing role of the transcriptionists. | 6 |
| Provided a prediction of the future of transcription. | 3 |
| Presentation has a minimum of 7 slides and is free of spelling and grammar errors. | 3 |
| Total | 30 |
Transcription
Years ago, Health Information Technicians often worked as medical transcriptionists. As times changed, and especially as coding became such an important function of HIM, it was seen as a much better use of the HIT’s knowledge and skills to have HIT’s doing coding and ROI and other technical aspects of HIM rather than typing all day.
Today, it is more common to see a HIT acting as supervisor for the transcriptionists, so you will want to become familiar with this function.
If you ever get the chance to give transcription a try, take it! It is eye opening how difficult it can be. And when you consider that successful transcriptionists usually type 80-120 words per minute, you can understand how transcriptionists definitely have a unique skill set. They have to be very good at the English language as well as medical language, very skilled editors, and very fast typists.
