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I am doing the quality improvement program. - boiling blood

Posted: Nov 29, 2013

It is such a waste and the content angering. Misspelled English words??? Unless it is their versus there, your versus you're, it is due to ASR. Medical words - Again, if it is the right word, ASR program's fault. And yes, we should correct it. Grammar?? Excuse me, I will get dinged for fixing it because the accounts are verbatim. Get into a rhythm????? That is not possible when you have to stop and correct as many times per line as I do to correct the crummy output AND delete the added and incorrect output. I have had instances of the ASR plucking something from the beginning of the report and inserting it in the diagnoses. Follow the doctor`s train of thought??? Not when I am having to stop so many times per line. Add to that, I will get dinged for making a coherent sentence according to intent because the accounts are verbatim! Listen ahead while you are correcting previous text. Gee, that sounds like it falls under best practices. Can anyone really accurately multitask exacting tasks requiring the utmost in accuracy?? Especially when the output has so many errors?

So Frustrating - They do not understand

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Terrible, terrible thing. I can listen ahead when I'm straight typing, but to actually think that someone can listen ahead while editing ASR is just nuts. The brain child who came out with that statement has never, ever done medical transcription a day in their life.

And so, I quit MT about a year ago.

Listening ahead - anon

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I was listening ahead until I went back and read some of what I had edited and saw all the mistakes. It is when you listen ahead that you leave a word or two of the ASR verbiage, or you leave a wrong sound-a-like word such dysphagia instead or dysphasia (or vice versa), or when "fever" is dictated and ASR puts in "fever and chills" and you don't delete the "and chills."

QA - Left this

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sweat shop, degrading place, on earth, whatever you want to call it. I knew I was going to quit, but gave no notice, because I wanted to cut my ties with no chance of ever returning or using them for a reference, so the last week I worked, every VR I got, I let go through as transcribed, except for cleaning it up just a bit. Didn't make a bit of difference on my line count it seemed, which just justified my quitting even more. It was my only satisfaction at getting back at them for the way they treated me. I really do hope, all of you MTs can get away form this company.

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