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Anyone else's job getting more difficult - each passing day?

Posted: May 27, 2015

My account went to Epic, not the first time I've lost an account to Epic, so I should be used to this by now. All these little partial dictations of a couple lines or less makes it extremely hard to get a decent line count/make money (!). That, in addition to no punctuation and apparently the speech rec engine has to start "learning" the dictators all over again. It's just horrible. Words of support or encouragement desperately needed.

Job - Epic

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I would say it isn't going to get better. Don't know if you are a FT person and need benefits; I am a PT IC and because I need more money to live on, I have worked for AssistMed PT and do straight typing and it only pays 7 cents a line, but for me, it works right now. They always have work though which is good and they are very nice. I detest VR and all the extra garbage the software geniuses are throwing at us MTs in an effort to destroy us, so I refuse to get into all this extra crap like Epic. I will change jobs then if that is thrown at me. Best I can tell you.

i don't even know - moonchild

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what epic is, but i can't imagine that anyone's job has gotten anything but harder. its like they keep putting up roadblocks to us getting anything done, they keep expecting us to jump through hoops and it just doesn't work that way. eventually, you just give up and stop caring. i still care enough to make sure the work i do is more than adequate, but beyond that, i've given up trying. i'm barely making my line count these days but oh well. whatever...

Epic is the EHR system for the hospital - anonMT

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I had 2 accounts go to Epic. The first one reduced the MTs on the account by over 80%; you would get short dictations of maybe just HPI, then they would say insert med list here, insert this here, etc. We had to add specific verbiage when they did that. So you get a chopped up short report where you used to get the full report. Many docs did front-end VR (meaning they dictated AND edited their own work, NO work left for MT). The second account that went to Epic totally dried up due to the above within 2 months.

Same here - Mt

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One of mine went to Epic too...partial dictations that have dropped my line count. Thought it was my imagination, guess not. Nothing ever benefits us, always chips away at our paycheck.

If you go to Epic are you still typing in Fluency - sm

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Have no clue how things work anymore, I come here sign on and work. After 8 hours I stop and try not to even look at a computer..

Yes. - MT

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Still in fluency. Epic is the hospital system. They only dictate bits and pieces, guess the Epic system fills in the rest on their end.

Same here - Mt

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