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  Medical transcription , also known as  MT , is an  allied health profession  dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other  healthcare practitioners . Medical reports can be voice files, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material. These are dictated over the phone or uploaded digitally via the Internet or through smart phone apps. Medical transcription is part of the healthcare industry that renders and edits doctor dictated reports, procedures, and notes in an electronic format in order to create files representing the treatment history of patients.  Health practitioners dictate what they have done after performing procedures on patients, and MTs transcribe the oral dictation, edit reports that have gone through speech recognition software, or both. Pertinent, up-to-date and confidential patient information is converted to a written text document by a medical transcri...