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Electronic medical records same as voice reconigition? - beb

Posted: Apr 16, 2013

Is EMR the same as voice reconigition?

no - voice recognition is an entity

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all on its own. EMR is "electronic medical records" with the medical records, usually point and click by the doctors or nurses, being inserted directly into the electronic version of the patient record. Most of it is automatic and the transcriptionist is not used much anymore for this type of application. Very few areas for "narrative" reporting any longer.

EMR does not equal point and click - EMR simply means electronic med rec

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Yes, there is a lot of point and click out there, but EMR does not equal point and click. All EMR means is electronic medical records.

I have 2 jobs - one is straight typing into an EMR and the other is mostly VR into an EMR that also has some component of point and click (EPIC to be precise).

Please, please stop equating EMR with point and click and transcription-less work. It's not the case.

It has been, in my experience - so please do not equate

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your experience to mine. I have lost 6 accounts in the past six months to the point and click EMR systems. One was already in an EMR platform and was fine with it. Then they got new EMR software and the work dried up within two weeks. The account was lost. All others that I have lost over the past year have also been to the point and click systems of EMR. There may be those out there that still use narrative from transcriptionists, but not all, and even those are going by the wayside. Don't think your job is secure, because it is not. As soon as the offices realize the EMR system can easily do what the transcriptionist does and they do not have to pay that much anymore, the transcriptionist is gone, gone, gone! I am happy you have not had that experience ... yet.... but my experience has been just the opposite! You will see soon enough!

All I was saying is that EMR does not equal - point and click

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That's all. I don't deny that point and click is gettig rid of transcription. I got laid off 2 years ago because of a huge hospital account going to point and click.

All EMR does not equal point and click though. That's my only point.

Thanks to EPIC - Texan

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My wonderful job of 5 years dried up completely.

Lost my clinic job of 12 years to Epic. - anon

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They had 5 MTs and decided with Epic they only needed 2.

Just lost a cardiology account to EMR - MomOfFive

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And their EMR is not just point-and-click; however, the administration told the doctors that if they wanted narrative, they would have to type it themselves. My particular account did their dictations in letter form, 2-3 pages each report. I know the docs won't want to type their own stuff, so they will probably just do point-and-click, which is disappointing because these cardiology docs are very thorough in their reports and have caught silent diseases in their patients that the patient was completely unaware of, along with the patient's PCP. EMR unfortunately is knocking out a lot of our jobs, and in the end it will be to the detriment of the patient as I guarantee the records will not be a thorough and complete as a narrative report is. :(

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