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Ellen Blount

Eatonton,GA

Summary

Medical Transcriptionist with 20 years of experience transcribing accurate and timely transcripts on-site and remotely. Results-oriented professional with proven ability to anticipate needs, proactively address situations and mitigate conflicts. Strong knowledge of medical language and transcription guidelines and practices. Exceptional at working under pressure with the ability to handle extremely high work volume. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Medical Transcriptionist

Emory Healthcare
10.2021 - Current
  • Transcribe verbatim dictation by pathologists and other medical professionals' pathologic medical reports, such as patient gross descriptions, and final diagnoses for surgical pathology reports, neuropathology reports, and electron microscopy reports.
  • Create addendums/amendments for new results or additional add on testing reports received and assigned to appropriate pathologists to sign out.
  • Review and edit drafts originating from speech recognition software to eliminate errors.
  • Collaborate with team members to ensure quality and consistency.
  • Coordinate and process legal requests for pathology material.
  • Enter appropriate technical billing codes.

Medical Transcriptionist

Bayview Physicians
01.2006 - 08.2020
  • Efficiently transcribed medical dictation creating office consultations, progress notes, history and physicals, diagnostic testing and other medical correspondence related to patient care.
  • Proofread, identified and corrected inconsistencies and discrepancies in transcribed documents, appropriately edited, revised and clarified them without altering actual meaning of dictation.
  • Assumed leadership responsibilities in the absence of the team leader to include conflict management, assigning work for other transcriptionists and provided timely consistent feedback to ensure preciseness in documents.
  • Effectively communicated with physicians to follow up on missing dictations, transcribed STAT dictations in a timely manner and maintained 24-hour turnaround time requirement.

Education

Medical Transcription -

Cooper Career Institute
Virginia Beach
03.2004

Skills

  • Deadline oriented
  • Critical thinking
  • Transcription accuracy
  • Dedicated team player
  • Editing and proofreading
  • Ability to multitask
  • Epic-Beaker, CoPath
  • Remote Office Availability

Timeline

Lead Medical Transcriptionist

Emory Healthcare
10.2021 - Current

Medical Transcriptionist

Bayview Physicians
01.2006 - 08.2020

Medical Transcription -

Cooper Career Institute

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