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Look at our blank winners! - barf

Posted: Oct 17, 2014

I can pick out at least 3 in that list that I know for sure just guessed. I've QA'd their work and it's horrible. Way to promote accuracy MM! You know what would get those blanks down? Educating dicators, fixing sound quality, keeping MTs in their primaries. Nevermind, that won't work; it's the MTs that need to improve, obviously. MM is run by complete boneheads.

to: look at blank winners - naturegal

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Totally agree with you!

blanks - phatty

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Some of the winners were simply for less blanks. I don't know about the winners that won $100.00, but that was yet another list they have created.

I agree educating dictators on how to dictate would be a tremendous help. Good dictators don't have you leaving blanks!!!!

just glad its over - anon

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I'm just glad the contest is over. Now I'll be curious if the percentage of blanks goes back up.

I was on our BOB's list a couple of times for a perfect score, and - sm

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that means way more to me than cheesing a report through to try to win an idiotic blanks contest. Much of the time, blanks are out of our control -- either they say it audibly or they don't. Obviously whoever came up with the idea for this contest has no idea what our job entails.

They don't give prizes for great work. Only speed and - sm

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zero blanks. The irony is that when you go too fast & make a typo or push through a guess instead of a blank, then you get severely penalized. You can't win! So I think I'll just keep focusing on quality instead of their games.

blank conteset - phatty

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I agree with you 100%. There are some dictators, too many in fact, that do not dictate well, for whatever the reason. I have one that watches TV while he is dictating (you can hear CNN in the background), another falls asleep, and yet another simply does not talk loud enough to get a viable report. I really hope in the very near future ALL the dictators are trained to do good dictation. It would save a lot of time.

That's why they can never go totally without us editors. They can't - nm

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and won't take the time to make a clean report. They simply don't care. Their time is too valuable to waste on clerical duties - that's what we're for. The greedy hospital administrators dream of getting rid of us & making them do their own clerical work, but I don't think that's going to fly with the doctors...

Sorry to disagree, but they can - go without you editors

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That is the whole goal of front-end SR. With that, nothing leaves the physician himself, much less the facility. There are no MTs and no "editors."

When the computer the physician is using presents the text to him in real time, as he speaks ... he says "The patient is" and "The patient is" appears on the screen ... he starts speaking just fine.

They do not perceive this as "clerical work" any more than they perceive texting or emailing to be clerical work. To them, it is just technology like iPhones and iPads. They talk to their phones and cars, so what is the big deal?

They quickly recognize something else, too. The first time they try this, they say "Wow, that was instantaneous. I don't have to wait for transcription to do this. I never again have to redictate something they lost. I never again have to proofread their work. I never again have to fill in the blanks they leave. I never again have to write down what I dictated, check for the report, or go back into the record to sign it. I never again have to worry about being suspended because of them. I never again have to write a note summarizing what I dictated so that patient care does not suffer."

I can tell you this, too. All that perfection in capitalization, spelling, and punctuation MTs think is so critical? Nobody else cares. Nobody is the least bit concerned. If does not affect patient care.

front end - solomagnet

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I disagree that spelling, punctuation, and capitalization do not matter. I think they do matter.

Also disagree that doctors want to spend time dictating into EMR and editing this. Some will, but I would bet that many won't. Do they have a choice?

You sound like someone who is selling front-end.

OK, so you tell us how you think this works. - Not a salesman.

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The fact that you think doctors even have to "edit" this tells me that you do not have any idea how this works. You are seeing the same SR system that you use.

Why don't you tell us how you think this works?

You know, some MTs here still think their work gets printed out to put in a paper chart or to be scanned into an EHR. Some still think doctors' daily notes and orders get written by hand on pieces of paper.

You seem to be stuck thinking that the doctor dictates by phone into a dictation system, which applies the SR to transcribe it, then sends the report to the doctor, who then has to fix all the blanks that you do.

You can fixate on how much spelling, punctuation, and capitalization matter, but I was not talking about you. I was talking about doctors and hospitals. They care about content. They can no longer afford to pay someone to pretty up reports.

No, I don't sell SR. My facility has it. The majority of our doctors, frankly, prefer to type it themselves or use our FESR than to use the transcription.

This is already here. Your job is VERY time-limited. You need to start transitioning out now. You seem to be in denial about this. Continuing to insist that editors will still be needed does harm to the people who read these boards. You are going to be out of a job and so will they because they listened to you.

Accusing someone of selling things that you don't like, or of being a suit if they say something you don't like is immature.

Dislike this all you want, folks, but this is reality. I am not making this up.

Front-end is just VR, and VR is only right a small percentage of - sm

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the time. It takes a lot of work to correct. No doctor is going to be impressed with having to waste their time trying to pain-stakingly correct VR garbage that the hospitals used to make sure was taken care of by professionals. You're either a suit or a salesman, but either way, you're wrong.

No, you are wrong. - We have it.

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No, you are wrong. And I don't sell it. I am not a suit.

It also is not the SR that you see. This is individually trained to the doctor. Errors are much lower because they learn how to speak clearly.

We have it. Our doctors type their own notes, use their own custom templates, and use SR. The middle-aged and younger doctors think doing things that way is normal.

You need to consider something ... most physicians who are not ready to retire have considerable computer experience. They have more than you do. They interact with those computers via a keyboard and voice, and many have done this since childhood. They do not need someone to type a note any more than they need someone to type their emails.

A lot of you misunderstand the value of your work to your MTSO, too. Your value lies in the service you provide to train the SR systems. You are working yourselves right out of a job while drinking the Koolaid that editing will be necessary forever.

You have your eyes closed and your fingers stuck in your ears singing "it can't happen" while it IS happening right in front of you. You imagine it is going overseas. No, it is going away entirely.

Open your eyes and look outside your home office. I am not telling you anything new. This has been going on for 10 years.

I have seen it in action. It's a hassle for them. Go sell your BS on the VR board. - nm

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