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What speech-wreck products does M*Modal - sell to other companies? -s/m

Posted: Dec 07, 2013

I work for another company, and they recently got a speech-wreck program that I believe has some M*Modal software in it. Do they have SR software that is specifically for radiology? Also, if a company purchases SR software that has M*Modal's stamp on it, how likely is it that the purchasing company might be in line to get taken over by M*Modal? Because if that happens, I'm out of there.

I'd start looking for a job - and soon

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Supposedly their new rad software does not require MTs.

True. Docs are starting to edit their own. I'm - already looking for other work. nm

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Go to the MModal site to see the products. - dnr

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MModal actually makes more money on software sales than transcription accounts according to a company report I saw.

Yes, they do have a speech program just for radiology. They want to do away with the "cost" of transcriptionists. The radiologists are expected to edit their SR, but, in my experience, they won't. Pennywise and pound foolish when it comes to opening up themselves (doctors and facilities) to lawsuits.

Your facility getting MM SR software just means they bought the software, not that they are trying to take over the facility. If there is still a transcription department, they will try to sign them up as clients, and then it is bye-bye medical transcriptionists.

The company getting signed up as M*Modal - clients is what my gut is telling me. :(

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Dont you guys get the plan - sm

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We are training our replacement. While we moan and groan we are training ASR. Once they figure out how to make it actually train we are out of here. The docs or their students will edit it. Notice how the really tough dictators, the ones you kind of "guess" on by previous reports are now being filled in? Almost like a kind of "standard" say PE? The same way I used to make generic reports before ASR ever even started and just changed it around? Its coming, we are gone you watch. They are tweeking, granted, they have been tweeking for years, eventually they will get it right and we are replaced by computers and a medical student. Add in the EMR, yes we are toast. I'm hoping to get the last 2 years out of it that I need.

Agree, but just clarifying - sm

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You are correct...you are training the software (front-end Sr) that will replace you and you absolutely do need to find another job very soon.

Front-end SR will not involve "editing" by an MT. The MTs' belief that they will always be required to "edit" is inaccurate. FR SR is done right in front of the dictator as he speaks, in the EHR, and he signs right then. He des not talk into a phone and get a piece of paper or an e-report a day later to "edit."

No one else is involved. The dctator himself does this. Medical students ARE NOT USED TO DO THIS. I have not ever heard anything about using medical students for this purpose except here on this board. It doesn't even make sense.

If you think it would be possible for them to do this, you don't understand medical education, FR SR, or the way EHRs are structured.

Medical students do not work in doctor offices. They have other work to do in hospitals. They would be unable to make truly necessary edits because those edits are so significant that only the dictator would know what they are. Nobody cares about typos, spelling, and punctuation.

The structure of medical records usually prevents anything like this. Only the dictator has access to a report before it is signed. No one else shoukd be able to see it or touch it. After it s signed, it cannot be edited. The dictator himself has to make any changes before signing.

Here is how I have seen it run recently - sm

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In my new GPs office. Filled out all the paperwork, PA sat with me for a bit, filled in the computer, doc came in we talked (new patient stuff) and she filled in some more on the computer, ordered some tests, sent me on my way. Followup visit everything was filled in, don't know who did it. Went to an orthopedist that happened to be in the same network as my old doctor. Walked in she pulled up my EMR with no problem, however, 80% of it was wrong, don't know who filled it in but that's why I found a new doctor. The girl that sat with me and filled out the EMR in the ortho office used to be an MT. She is now cross trained to work the whole office with only a small percentage of time doing the filling in of the EMRs. If you think technology is not going to replace us thing AGAIN. My new doc flat out told me to find a new job and do it fast.

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