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Working with the Electronic Health Record (EHR)? - In The Hills

Posted: May 12, 2011

I know that transcriptionists at Veterans' Hospitals have used the EHR for years and it works really well at VA. Now it seems that you hear about it all the time, but every single description is different from every other one. Nobody seems to know anything. When I ask how it works in other hospitals and clinics or with MTSOs, I hear that it's really no big deal. You just transribe like you always have. If each system is different, I guess what I want to know is, are any of you using it, and how does the system work in your case?

Because - sm

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The data (the part you type and demographics, etc.) from various transcription platforms are designed to integrate into most EHRs. If they don't, they don't last long :)

EHR - pumpernickel

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One company I work for types reports in Word and then we copy and paste into the patient's EHR file for storage. The other company I work for uses a VR editing program and we edit the documents on the editing platform and then they are stored electronically in the EHR. This sounds like no big deal, but company #1 has lost some clients who went to a point-and-click EHR and don't need transcriptionists anymore and company #2 doesn't need as many MTs anymore since each MT can do a larger volume of work with the editing than they used to with traditional transcription.

Interesting, Pump. I've been told also most new systems, - incredibly, do not communicate

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with others. Still. Not 1981, 2011. Which makes them obsolete before they're even sold to some suckers. Unbelievable.

As for not needing MTs, don't forget our population is both growing and aging. Immediate projections are even that more will be needed in the short term. I'm feeling more hopeful than I used to be that our job may morph and change considerably but will endure in new form. The skills we have to offer are sellable to businesses that will need us. The trick as always will be acceptance of the new opportunities and the skills needed, instead of closing eyes and wishing them away.

Remember how many on this forum insisted, for years, that SR could never work and would just go away? How many waited to get their first expander a decade after others adopted theirs enthusiastically?

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