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Still amazed by the "fast readers of ASR" - sick and tired

Posted: Jul 03, 2010

Not only does my ASR type gibberish a great deal of the time, it also types the wrong word a lot. Just now the doctor said "his procedure was postponed" and ASR put "the procedure was postponed." It also leaves out a ton of stuff such as "there was" and "in the;" just totally puts nothing and goes onto the next word. If I am not going relatively slow and really concentrating on the context of the report, I would miss some of these things that are not blatantly just misspelled.

So I am supposed to totally read and re-do this whole report word by word and be 40% FASTER than if I typed it like some of these posters say they are doing?

I have seen a change and I believe this is another ploy to get us to fail these audits. This is really tedious now and it is on nearly every report -- whether it is ESL or very plain-speaking good ol' American doctors.

I agree - sm

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When I first started ASR in 2006 it was a dream because I would make corrections maybe every paragraph. My hands were getting a break. Now, corrections have to be made every sentence, sometimes every other word.

My Take - MT

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I think they actually used to discriminate on who gets to dictate on ASR--I remember 2006, and it wasn't horrendous. It started out just the really easy clinic dictators, then somewhere along the line, they decided to just throw hundreds of doctors in a huge hospital on the system.

I honestly have trouble blaming ASR itself. One can only expect so much from a machine. I blame the people who chose to use it in this way, and to pay us less, to boot.

Unbelievable - anon

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Just had a dictator who wanted to number everything with "next."

ASR did not put the same thing twice, although dictator clearly said "next" every time. It put "Texas" once and "nexus" once. Why would it not hear the same thing (wrong) every time. Why hear 10 different (wrong) things?

Also a long list of medications, pretty much all were mg dosages. It put grams every time. Why could it not hear "milligrams?" I certainly heard it every time (thank goodness for the patient).

Grams vs milligrams - MT

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I have a dictator who tends to "swallow" his first syllables and all his milligrams come up grams. I use the search/find/replace function and just fix them all in one swoope before I even let him get a word out of his mouth. If I see his name, I just know and take care of it, 1,2,3.

Good idea. Thanks. Every little bit helps. - anonymous

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