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HUGE laughs......SM - MedT

Posted: Jan 29, 2013

I'm in an HIT program after doing transcription for about 5 years and deciding that I'm tired of being a wandering sheep, and I just read the first chapter in one of my textbooks, which says that "speech recognition software is 95% to 99% accurate." I'll be pointing out in my class that that is a grievous error.

VR accuracy - In House MT

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We use VR where I work and I can tell you that we only get about 5% of the dictated reports to edit. The rest go straight to the referring physicians. I personally do the QA and out of 500 reports I found 44 errors. None of them were patient care errors, minor errors like commas instead of semi-colons, "in" instead of "at" etc. so I would say our VR is pretty darn good.

What - VR

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software do they use? Curious since it must be one of the only ones that is good.

VR - In House MT

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The system uses the new Dragon, version 10. Yes, it has issues, but we are very glad all seven of us still have our jobs at the same hourly rate($20+) and our benefits.

serious question (no hostility intended) - Des

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Did your hospital simply buy the Dragon software and your hospital's IT Dept takes care of the maintenance, or did your hospital buy the software from Nuance and your hospital is using Nuance's IT Dept for maintenance, updates, etc.?

What - VR - Anon

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That's what I was wondering also.Or maybe the doctors just speak clearer or are young and have come out of medical school already using VR where the "OLDER" guys don't want to change their "OLD" ways! or maybe it's a little of both!! The VR I see SUX!! Its only going to type what it hears...be that good or bad. It doesn't know what does or does not make sense!!

Not even close!! - seriously

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What a joke! I just finished a job (and I now sit here with NJA again) where an entire line was left off. The doctor was a very clear dictator, great sound, etc. It's like VR got bored, quit, and decided to pick it up again when it was ready. HA!

yeah, off just a tad...LOL - future student

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Whenever I hear someone is in school, I must ask about that. I'm trying to choose an alternative to transcription. Do you go to a local college for HIT, or online? If online, may I ask what school?

School... - MedT

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I go to a local community college, but the classes are online. Depending on what state you live in, you might be able to find a college where you can do almost all the work online and maybe just go on campus for orientation and/or finals. I happen to live about 5 minutes away from my school, so it's no big deal to be on campus sometimes.

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