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Why don't facilities simply demand 98% accuracy from VR vendors? (nm) - Amber

Posted: Apr 02, 2015

Do you work for an MTSO? - sm

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If you do, your MTSO has the VR, not the facility. The 98% accuracy IS what the facility contracts for, and they don't care if it is from VR, MTs, or monkeys.

Well... - see msg

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If you're working for an MTSO, it's not the VR vendor's fault. It's the MTSO's fault for putting any and all dictators on VR. If you work for a small office, it's still the office's responsibility to only put dictators on the VR who should be on VR, then it's the dictator's responsibility to edit as he or she goes along while dictating.

And so I quit MT... Ptooey.

I thought the facility bought the VR as part of the EMR package. - Amber

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But the MTSO chooses and buys the VR program? Thanks.

They might, but ... - Informacist

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When a facility buys an EHR, they might also get a front-end SR system, but if they do, that is not the dictation going to any MTSO.

That dictation does not go anywhere. The doctor speaks TO THE COMPUTER IN FRONT OF HIM and it is transcribed straight into the record. He makes any changes. It is signed right then. No MT. No editor.

If the hospital keeps an MTSO, that dictation is completely separate. It is dictated by phone to the MTSO's dictation computer, which sends it through back-end SR and on to an editor.

I think a lot of MTs confuse EHR with SR, or somehow think the main purpose of an EHR is storing the reports they transcribe,like its main function is just dealing with (and taking away) the work MTs do.

That is understandable, but not the case. Dictated reports like you transcribe are only a smallish part of an EHR. There are huge sections that handle lab, path, imaging, cardiac and other monitoring equipment, surgical procedure management, order entry, medications, a section that checks for drug interactions and assists with medical decisions, physician notes, nursing notes, documentation from other caregivers like respiratory therapy and social work, and loads more. Way more than dictation.

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