Providing fill-in work as needed for medical transcription service as independent contractor for radiology department
Created software and monthly update of computerized medication/treatment sign off sheets; overseeing current Rx's for 60+, duodiagnostic clients in independent and supervised living facility, transcribing (general medicine, psychiatric and social work) & maintaining client medical records for concurrent physician appointments and other medical treatments, and overseeing biweekly in-house psychiatric clinics in coordination with psychology department.
Scheduling and setting up treatment plan conferences with onsite real time transcribing of admission H&P's, progress reports, treatment plans, court letters, updating activity schedules and unit coordination for the admission and long term psychiatric ward. Transcription of in house dictation for psychology and psychiatric departments.
coordinating legal/medical evaluations; requesting medical records from other medical facilities, doing record reviews, historian for initial medical evaluations, reviewing and completing medical reports to hearings and court; medical legal documents between insurance companies and attorneys; supervising 4 other transcriptionists - both in house and remote locations; training transcriptionists; training other transcriptions to be historians, overall responsibility of transcriptionists and responsible for upkeep of transcription department and equipment; including research and purchasing new transcription software and dictation equipment, and computer system for office of independent state medical examiner, 3 orthopedic surgeons and 3 satellite industrial medicine facilities.
subcontracting for numerous medical facilities including various hospitals, drug rehabilitation centers; 3 emergency rooms including Orthopaedic Hospital of L.A.and Long Beach Drug Rehabilitation.
Hired on as transcriptionist but ART retired about 4 months after starting job and spent the next 8 months as temporary department head under supervision of ART in distant hospital; attending medical staff meetings, ICD coding, assuring medical staff kept up report dictation and signing off of records; training of two transcriptionists and supervised acquisition of new dictation/transcription equipment. Supervision of 6 woman transcription pool.
Medical transcriptionist for 4 years with last 2 years; 03/1978 to 07/1980, as secretary and medical record auditor for Joint Commission auditing committee; training by general surgeon who had headed the audit committee for the Navy Hospital which he had just left; set up criteria for chosen diagnoses, did audits and reported back to the physician committee where reprimands were indictated, recommendations given compliance resolutions, and all audits were made available for Joint Commission with hospital being accredited both years and Joint Commission team commended the hospital on its auditing thoroughness and high marks. Microfilming of antiquated records. Medical transcription work was basic four, including specialties of orthopedics, urology, neurology, radiology, general medicine and cardiology.
collecting test medias, typing lab results, set up PKU testing, coordinated transportation of testing materials with outlying labs as needed; trained for and coordinated blood bank quality control and exchange of blood bank products with record auditing of all blood bank activities to state blood bank lab. Responsible for coordinating outpatient studies with physician, lab and patient.
Medical legal course studying legal ramifications on medical field, medical terminology course, computer programing course and 3 terms of Spanish, speed reading classes and class on what studies and patient symptoms and signs would be indicated according to medical diagnosis.
have taken several prerequisites towards nursing degree
several general college courses including English, business math refresher course, spanish refresher course