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Does anyone besides me think that the Affordable Care Act - Kiki

Posted: Apr 04, 2014

will dramatically increase the need for documentation, regardless of HOW (transcription, voice recognition) or WHO (Americans, Indians) does the work? It will be interesting to see how the medical transcription field evolves in the coming years.

I work in a medical office and its all going EMR. Its point and click - from here on out...

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Acute care maybe...SM - Old Anon

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There are potentially up to 7 million new patients out there, some of whom have been using ERs, some of whom have no PCP yet, and some of whom may have been using low-income/sliding-scale fee clinics all along. It's no doubt going to put a strain on the medical system at first. Though I do think the situation will be a catalyst for more family medicine/internal medicine physician training to happen. Hopefully, everyone will be able to find a doctor of their liking, so definitely there will be more documentation. As far as transcription, yes I think hospital transcription may increase some but not sure about doctor office transcription.

It will all probably be drop down menus and standard templates - to keep up with all those patients coming in

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I really don't see MTs being needed anymore, even for editing after 2015 sadly. Healthcare will turn into a revolving door, assembly line, get in get out, scan the next one in kind of system, IMO. Sad.

I highly doubt the ACA will bring transcription back. - Instead, it will likely disappear entirely.

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I doubt the ACA will affect it much, one way or the other, but if they're trying to make healthcare "affordable", then you can bet the healthcare providers are going to try to make documentation of that healthcare "affordable", as well, which they're already doing with the EMR and doctor-generated reports.

Yep, including acute care. It's already happening sm - tired MT

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All the hospital MTs I know are losing their jobs due to Nuance and/or Epic.

still 100% typing - me

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I have a pt in house job and a IC at home job. I'm optimistic that they will get busier. The last month my IC job has gotten very busy. I hope the ACA is why and I hope the in house job follows suit.

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