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We can all hang it up anyway - annonymous53

Posted: Aug 21, 2011

Yesterday I heard some people actually talking about they had meetings with some people from a new softwear company that in a few years will allow them to dictate and post their medical records online themselves at the same time cutting out the middle men, companies with big fees and poor work and medical transcriptionist, and if they are too busy they think their secretary or LPNs or Medical Assistants will be able to do it all for them. HA! I actually heard this! CRAZY.

I doubt they will have better accuracy. Have you ever seen - physician do-it-yourself reports.

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They wouldn't pass QA just on spelling alone, let alone punctuation and format. I often wonder how they got through college, let alone medical school.

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