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Very scary. Another breach of medical - see message

Posted: Dec 21, 2010

dictation found on the internet back in 2008. Just now reporting this apparently to the general public. Just saw this on Facebook.

Also scary... - AHDI trying to raise

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10 bucks from 10,000 MTs!

Over 1000 patients who weren't told their SSNs were - available on the web since 2008. Great. NM

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SSN are out there on everything, no just medical records, along with your $ info. - Loans, credit cards etc have your SS# attached. nm

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I wouldn't even give them what I pick out of - MT Wordz

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my cat's litter box every day. That would STILL be too generous.

Well, maybe incidents like this will take MTing .... - MT Lady

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out of the homes and back into the hospital where they belong.

Why on this electronic earth must portable work - "belong" in a hospital, using valuable space? NM

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NEVER EVER HAPPEN - nor should it

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Times are changing. We're global like it or not. Hospitals like not having to fret about their transcription as long as costs are in line. PERIOD.

Ya know, these days the words "never happen" - are becoming meaningless. (sm)

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Think about it. You name it, and it can happen. Think back just a few years on all the things we thought could "never ever happen":

Personal computers.
The internet.
Women CEOs, politicians, doctors, etc.
An African-American President.
Telecommuting.
Cellular phones.
Disappearance of America's middle class.
Equal rights for women.
Paperless banking and bill-paying.
A man walking on the moon.
Heart/lung/face transplants.
Declining jobs and less pay for not just MT's, but many professions.
Global warming.
A terrorist attack on American soil.
Electric cars.
Solar-powered lights.
In vitro fertilization.
The extinction of many animal and plant species.

There are also things that haven't happened yet, but most likely will someday, maybe even in our lifetimes:

Nuclear war.
Decline of America as a superpower.
Interstellar space travel.
No middle class left at all in the US.
The tail end of an ice-age that we currently live in will end, and many coastal cities will be under water.
A major war fought on American soil which we may very well lose.

The list of possibilities is endless. All the things, both good and bad, that seem "impossible" are possible.

Somewhere down the line, something may change for the better for MTs. It's not completely impossible. Maybe for some reason that has yet to happen, in-house MT may become totally necessary. Or, the need for the medical record (or anything else) in print may disappear entirely.

So to say anything at all on this earth "will never happen" is pretty narrow-minded. I don't mean that in a mean way, it's just not seeing the big picture, and the astounding speed with which things in the world are changing.

I agree change is part of life - but

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hospitals will NEVER bring back transcription utilizing MTs. They may take over the voice recognition and fire services but there won't be "great" gigs for numerous MTs in hospitals :)

And believe it or not, I'm a glass half full, Ollie Optimism person :)

So how do you explain the hospitals that have quit - MTSOs and brought MT back inhouse? nm

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hospital based MT - crazyforstayingsolong

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I would gladly give up the "convenience" of working from home to return to a work environment that made some kind of sense. The large transcription companies are killing this job. I haven't had a raise since 2001 because I'm at the "top" of the industry-generated pay scale. Overstaffing and underpaying by these companies is going to result in the more experienced MTs leaving the field out of necessity. They will eventually find themselves losing accounts and money after having killed the proverbial goose.

MT lady - MT lady

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"Crazy for...." You get it...some just don't see it. It's laughable how they go through all the rigamarole to insure privacy of medical records and then farm out the dictation to anyone who can transcribe and an internet connection. It's a joke! Your medical records were much safer and accurate when they were in a supervised medical records department.

Only safer if that hospital goes back to using Selectrics. They still - use PCs, which means records are at risk. nm

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Right! NM - MT Lady

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But, that is never gonna happen. Can you imagine having to go back - to carbon paper??? nm

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I was traumatized by carbon paper and wouldn't be in - this work if THAT was part of it! :) NM

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Selectrics & carbon copies never bothered me, - but that is likely because - sm

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back then transcription wasn't a race against the clock like it is now. We actually had the luxury of time in which to be more careful.

"We actually had the luxury of time"--but that - was a BAD thing! SM

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When patients are in trouble, they need care right then. Those bad old ways meant the medical staffers were evaluating and making decisions without the patients charts or, in desperation, running to the basement to get a look.

The loss of a transcriptionist's "luxury of time" is a very GOOD thing. Every year many patients die, and tons more seriously adversely affected, by bad medical care; and let's also not forget, we're almost all patients ourselves at various times.

In those days, we still had STAT reports, which were - able to be typed immediately, because -

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we could actually remove whatever we were working on from our typewriters, and pop the cassette out of the machine, and start on the STAT immediately.

Unlike today, when the STAT sits in an electronic file for god-knows-how-long, until it finally pops up in someone's queue, already out-of-TAT. And then, the recipient of that STAT still has to finish the current report she's on because the system won't allow her to put it on hold, or cancel it, so she can work on the STAT.

Then, upon sending said STAT, rather than getting up out of her chair and personally handing it to the doctor needing it, the STAT goes off into cyberspace, where:

a) A thunderstorm causes the servers to go down,
b) An Indian tech picks that moment to run a check on that region's MT's PCs, which unexpectedly causes the STAT to become non-existent,
c) Blanks in the STAT cause it to be re-routed to QA,
d) The wrong demographics (not typed by the MT, but automatically added by the hospital upon dictation of the STAT) cause the STAT to be sent to:
(1) Be dictated on the wrong patient,
(2) Be sent to the wrong doctor.

We had far fewer problems back in the days when we had the time to be more careful. And not just US, but the doctors, as well.

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