Yes.
Posted By: Cha Cha on 2009-04-03
In Reply to: Is anyone else ready to throw in the towel on transcription? - sm
MT is the victim of a 3-headed monster: VR, offshoring, and point-and-click EMR.
The situation will likely get worse despite the fact that these are all a big step down in quality from a dictator and competent Transcriptionist solution. In the end I doubt that much money is saved by adopting them.
It's a bit scary to imagine what the quality of medical records will be in 5 years after many competent transcriptionists have moved on (or were smart enough to avoid MT in the first place) and the offshore and machine transcription still requires extensive editing. When I edited offshore transcription I almost never had time to fix all the problems.
I doubt that many providers really enjoy spending their time fussing over spelling and grammar minutiae as they type descriptive passages into their point-and-click systems to document the patient's peculiar symptoms, differential diagnosis, etc. (the gray areas). Much of that will fall by the wayside as providers need to be doing other things, like seeing patients.
After 15 years of MT I'm always looking at other kinds of work now but haven't settled on anything yet.
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