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The Future of Medical Transcription - MTathome

Posted: Sep 05, 2012

What do you feel is the future of the medical transcription profession? In my area, the hospitals and their doctors' groups are switching over to voice recognition systems and not using traditional medical transcription. Will I be out of a job soon?

Speech Rec is a nightmare. You will be out of a job when it moves to Epic - seeya

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They will still need people to edit the speech rec becuase it is SO BAD, however, at a GREATLY reduced rate. Usually 4 cpl.

I use VR to echo dictate reports and have done so for over 2 years now. - Here is what they will soon find out

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The technology is not where it is represented to be by those who market it. There are no doctors or other authors of reports that speak clearer than I do. I enunciate clearly every word I say, and Dragon still makes mistakes. The novelty of the idea will wear off quickly for those doctors, and then the reality of the time consumption required for accurate proof reading of what they were anticipating would be accurate renderings of their dictation will set in. If they thought dictation was too time consuming, wait 'till they get a load of the time the failing of VR will require to re-read everything they just said in order to catch that occasional word rendered in place of what they actually said that is utterly laughable (even potentially harmful and therefore litigious) and fix it. VR will be way more frustrating than they ever imagined. It is not what it is being represented to them to be. Whether they will be willing to abandon their investment and hopeful imaginings in the light of their new-found frustrations will be another story. However, if we are waiting in the wings to offer a viable alternative to relieving that frustration, they may just come back around. Again, the technology is not what it has been represented to them to be, they just don't know it yet. It will be interesting to see what happens when they find out.

There is absolutely no way any VR can be sent through without editing it and also there will - PAMT

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always be mistakes especially when doctors dictate a mile a minute or whatever or constantly change their minds because it puts that down in the dictation. Never happen at least in my lifetime that they can do VR without editing but then there is India which is a far worse problem for us than VR will ever be.

The Future of Medical Transcription - MTathome - steventhompson

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Healthcare is a growing industry and is creating lot of job opportunities in respective fields of healthcare and medical transcription is one amongst them. The medical transcription job requires accuracy, thats why employer always hire skilled professionals. If you feel you don't have the right skills, get trained yourself from medical transcription online school. Though many hospitals are swithcing to voice recognition systems medical transcriptionists correct and edit written reports created by these systems. No need to worry about your job.
http://www.icisse.org/medical-transcription-school.html

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