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Epic/Editscript - MT32

Posted: Dec 04, 2011

The hospital I work for changed over the Editscript last year. Changeover went relatively smoothly, and we still had plenty of work to keep all the transcriptionists busy (after we stopped outsourcing the overflow we used to have). Recently, the hospital switched to Epic electronic medical record system, and within a week the transcription workload plumeted to probably 40% of our former workload --not enough to keep our transcription staff busy. It seems the doctors/nurses/etc are using the "point and click" capability in Epic. This "seems" to have been a surprise to administration. While they say they expected somewhat of a dropoff in transcription, the amount we've lost is astounding. We (transcriptionists) tend to believe that administration didn't expect such a decline in transcription, especially since they just invested millions of dollars in Editscript. The doctors are very unhappy with Epic reports and the amount of time it takes them to complete their notes, meanwhile, the transcription staff is sitting in limbo (probably not for long....we all imagine layoffs after the first of the year). My question is, has anyone out there experienced a similar situation....Editscript didn't take our jobs but Epic possibly will.....

Yes, I'm losing work also because of EMR - LDMC

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I am also using EditScript. The main hospital I transcribe for is starting to use the EMR and I've lost about half my work already (and only a couple of departments have switched over thus far). It was ridiculous before trying to make money with this, now it's worse. At least it lit a fire under my rear to get me to go back to school. I can't see how this field we are in is going to last more than a couple more years. I could be wrong, but it doesn't look good to me.

Yes, only the drop was far more than 40%, more like 60%. sm - MT2

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We expect layoffs very soon, as well. I imagine at least 2/3 of the department will be gone soon. The doctors here hate it, as well. This is called "progress." Also, the coders and billing department expect to have massive layoffs because Epic evidently does most of that as well.

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