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I have decided VR is just dangerous! - Accountability?


Posted: Jul 31, 2013

Really, with this time of VR, who can actually be accountable for the errors in reports?  My VR is HORRID.  It will completely change the name of medications that the dictator dictates and on and on.  So, when a medical error is made, based on a report where the MT didn't catch a mistake on VR, how can they hold the MT solely responsible?  I mean, we didn't TYPE that error, we just missed a word while proofreading.  I wonder why they would allow something with such a high potential for errors to be even involved in a medical record!

VR/speech recognition - Makaleka

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IMHO: it IS the responsibility of the MT proofreading the report ... that is what he/she is being paid to do ... and again IMHO the MT should be held responsible. The author is correct - voice recognition is a piece of s***.

I get VR/SR like that a lot, and I find my reports are more accurate if I just straight type them. - Des

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It's entirely not fair that I'm not being paid for straight typing these reports, but the bottom line for me has always been accuracy and integrity. Since clients and MTSOs don't really care about those things anymore -- well, maybe they care, but they surely don't want to pay for it -- I'm getting out of MT. It's just not worth it anymore.

How many docs will re-listen to dictation while editing? - Rose

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NONE. So these medication errors, will not be caught by the doctors. They can't remember all these details and they certainly do not have time to re-listen to their own dictation to edit. All they will do is a very quick look over and a medication spelled correctly is not going to be noticed.

How many patient will die before they industry wakes up to this fact? We've known it all along, but no one cares what we think BEFORE the deaths and malpractice suits that hit them in the pocketbook.


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