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Voice is not your upcoming problem, templated reports are. Working VR people know that it will never replace us .. they can brag to sell but then you are still left with the fall out of having to clean up reports. What it has done (most particularly e-scription) is drive down the price of MT salaries across the board. The company who sold to Nuance seemed to be on a control frenzy of racking up the big hospitals and driving down costs which is, of course, what the bean counters want.
I have my credential but never have been a proponent of an association who controls the exam. I would rather see us be licensed. As an educator I feel that there are many who never did take an exam .. they were there at the beginning and are still working. There are now 2 levels of examination for acute care and for clinic and newer MT grads. I really feel that licensure would place us on an even playing field with others working in allied health. Mostly I consider getting out save for my teaching whch I love, but I am so spoiled working at home I continue to drag my feet. I also have to say that offshore has been around long before we all started to discuss it and, that being said and having been offshore, it is the big companies - Spheris, Medquist, Healthscribe (now defunct), Heartland, C-Bay and all of those with suits who sold their transcriptionists out to go for the big bucks. AHDI is simply not clever enough for that .. believe it.
Worry about templates and worry about companies, not associations, who smile in your face while they send work you could be doing off by the boat load. AHDI has made some very questionable judgment calls like aligning with owners and these sorts of ridiculous things, but they are not just as intuitive or as well connected as you or they think. What drives this industry is technology, nothing more and nothing less. The guy with the slickest, biggest program wins no matter whether it works or not .. and yet we continue to hack away. It is a conundrum!! |
VR by 2010. - winnie
