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Oranges and apples --- EHR and point-n-click and scribes - No Name
Posted: Nov 10, 2011
I think these ideas are getting used interchangeably when they are very different applications. EHR is still transcribed documents, just not paper charts. Facilities have already been on this for a good while now and the transcriptionist will basically see no difference as we don't usually handle a chart anyways in-house or virtually. However, it is the point-n-click programs that are phasing out the transcribed document.
EHR/point/click - MT
[ In Reply To ..]Thanks for explaining this. This is what I thought, that EHR would not really be a threat as long as we were receiving the dictation to go in it, but the Mission One statement says that "EHR adoption is a large threat to medical transcription" so they must mean point and click and they must plan to do away with narrative, although it is hard to imagine a medical record without it.
A lot of facilities are already using it -- doctor's - offices, clinics, etc.
[ In Reply To ..]It is hurting a friend of mine already whose in-house department did clinic work to supplement loss of Radiology AND ER. Now the clinic is using point-and-click. She is off this whole week due to low workload. It isn't just us -- it is affecting everybody.
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