Medical Transcription Services include the act of transcribing medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. Dictations are voice files typically called in over the telephone or uploaded digitally via the Internet and now through smart phone apps.

With todays technology, there are numerous electronic devices that are used to record audio files such as a digital handheld recorder, iPhone App, or toll free call in voice servers. The provider then dictates office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries and uploads them to a transcriptionist who then types them.