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Office
Systems Technology-Medical
Option program is an integrated program that prepares
graduates at the certificate and associate degree
level. Medical Health Information Technicians assemble
patients’ health information. Every time a patient
receives health care, a record is maintained of the
observations, medical or surgical interventions, and
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Medical
Transcriptionists listen to dictated recordings made by
physicians and other health care professionals and
transcribe them into medical reports, correspondence,
and other administrative material. A growing number of
medical transcriptionists will amend patients’ records,
edit documents from speech recognition systems, and
identify discrepancies in medical reports. |
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Significant Points:
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Employment is expected to grow much faster than
average.
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prospects should be very good; technicians with a
strong background in medical coding will be in
particularly high demand.
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opportunities will be good for medical
transcription.
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Employers prefer medical transcriptionists who have
completed a postsecondary training program at a
community college. About 4 out of 10 work in
hospitals and another 3 out of 10 work in
physicians’ offices.
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Entrants usually have an associate degree; courses
include anatomy, physiology, medical terminology,
computer science and Microsoft Office suite.
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Salaries
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Median annual earnings of medical
health information technicians were $25,590 in 2006.
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The middle 50 percent eared between
$20,650 and $32,990.
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The lowest 10 percent earned less than
$17,720.
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The highest 10 percent earned more than
$41,760.
*American Health Information Management Association;
American Academy of Professional Coders; MTWorld.
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