WEBMEDX line counting could affect ALL MTSOs,a must read - concerned MT

http://www.executivehm.com/article/Transcription-in-the-21st-century/

This article (above link)  has quotes from present COO of Wedmedx who is President of MTIA and used to be former Spheris boss. 

This article explains how the MTSOs want our lines counted.  It explains how they want to take away all keystrokes that cannot be seen by the naked eye.  Won't this effectively save the hospitals and MTSOs from paying MTs for up to 1/3 of the keystrokes we do on a daily basis? Currently all MTs have taken cuts to do VR, some up to 50%, with this additional loss of spaces (VBC) etc. won't this equate to an overwhelming pay cut for US MTs?

Also of interest, if you read the entire article is Wedmedx's COO's view point of off-shoring.  WOW.  How long until Wedmedx MT's will be sharing their work with Rajeev?

These were excerpts I found  interesting in the article.  But please read the entire article, it is very enlightening!

"The previously advanced standard unit of measure was the 65-character line, which included the space bar, shift key, bold, underscore and other keystrokes. Practitioners worried that personal computers and word processors would deprive medical language specialists the credit for character count."

"The white paper prepared by the task force say the VBC is, “a character that can be seen with the naked eye. Under this counting scheme, spaces, carriage returns, and hidden formatting instructions such as bolding, underline, text boxes, printer configurations, and spell checking are not counted in the total character count.”

"*** believes that every publication around the requirement on clinical documentation indicates that the amount of clinical documentation is going up. Despite the increasing levels of technology around electronic healthcare records, the overall amount of medical transcription is increasing on an annualized basis of anywhere from 10 to 15 percent. “Responding to the labor shortage around the areas of speech recognition and further leveraging of the medical transcriptionist, as part of an intelligent workforce, adds ***“is enabling technology to realize its full value proposition, and I believe you will continue to see the supplement of global medical transcription as part of the processing of documentation.”