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Editing MM ASR is like shooting yourself in the foot quality-wise. - dnr

Posted: Jun 07, 2015

I straight typed the entire history and assessment of an ASR report and edited the rest. Then, I took a glance at it. No problem with the straight-typed portion, but there were some niddly little brain error mistakes in the edited portion. Grrrr.... Like stray "a", "the" present or absent comma. I this zombie state inducing editing. I have noticed a ton of brain error mistakes when I have looked at prior patient reports. Sure, they can stick out like a sore thumb at times, but that is only when you haven't been turned into a zombie. The last report of my shift yesterday could have definitely flunked me if I hadn't noticed that I had become so brain dead.

I know its crazy - sm

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And...sometimes I catch them on a re-read but not always. When I straight type, I tend to remember everything I have typed so the proofing is easier and way more accurate as well. ASR, I tend to simply go off into brain dead land and remain there my entire shift. I hate it!!! I have to wonder if other companies ASR is any better. Oh and for what you did, I would have saved it to an expansion file and F11'd it if it was that much typing.

Certain doctors I don't even bother editing as it is 2000x easier to straight them. - dnr

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The doctors who stutter, repeat what they said many times before they finally complete a sentence, etc.

I have now started retyping medication lists if I see more than one is gibberish, and that is so much faster! Some of the labs too. Liver function tests are often really a mess.

I should probably just quit editing a certain doctor's PE and use my own standard for her PE. ASR has had YEARS to learn her PE, which is the same 95% of the time.

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