Electronic Medical Record, Artificial Speech Recognition, and
Posted By: Health Information Management. nm on 2007-10-21
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all medical records should be electronic.
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Anyone work for Electronic medical Transcription? Need info.
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speech recognition
We won't become obsolete, but we will become trained as editors in speech recognition if we want to keep our jobs. Spheris already is doing this on 1 account they have. Other employers probably are too and will follow suit. It's coming. (I've been resistant but want to keep my job.) It's not so horrible, just learning the hot keys or function keys. The MTs who initially resisted and were trained in speech recognition now love it and can't imagine going back to straight typing. Yes, I can't believe I'm saying this, but ALL MTs who trained on this who hated it at first now Love It. Something to think about.
VR/speech recognition
I COMPLETELY agree with PathGuy on this one. What I was told the basics of the VR were that the physician dictates into their system. If his/her voice is easy to understand, eventually VR is able to record his voice, thus turn it into VR/speech recognition report/s. BUT, there are many, many ESL dictators and EFL dictators who have nuances in their voices, etc., that the VR WILL NEVER be able to adapt to. This, my friends, means that a Transcriptionist must always be needed to translate what is dictated. This we have some comfort in, because there are always a lot of dictators out there that VR will not be able to do that part of the job. This is not to say that the Transcriptionist is left with the worst dictators, but it DOES SAY that VR/speech recognition does have its limitations. Bravo to PathGuy. I believe that a lot of docs WANT AN MT transcribing their work and not some VR system because the MT IS MORE CAREFUL WITH THE DICTATION/REPORT. Kudos to us!!
Speech recognition
There is no way I doubled my lines and I was good at doing Speech recognition, in fact had my employer asking me to help others achieve their goals in speech.
I hated it because there was no money in it and it is faster for me to type and edit my own work than try to interpret what the computer is spitting out
speech recognition
I think at this point I have just about been beaten. I thought I found the perfect place where I could stay and transcribe, and less than 6 months into it I have lost a ton of my work, not due to speech recognition but due to EMR. It keeps happening to me! I'm throwing up my hands at this point. I'll try editing at a new company and maybe I'll be able to stay put for more than 6 months before new technology eats my job again. I understand that you want to transcribe and not edit and I hope you find a good company. I just don't think anyone is safe from either EMR or ASR anymore. Best of luck to you. 
speech recognition
i am new in this business and I was wondering why doesnt anyone use speech recognition to get a better line count? Is this just wishful thinking on my part. I just heard about this product called Naturally speaking today and it seems like a dream come true for any MT, though obviously unethical? Any opinions or experiences?
Speech recognition
I am tired of killing myself and ending up with nothing, so I was considering speech recognition. I just found a very affordable program called Speech to text that gives you a 30 day free trial. I know it has good and bad points, but has anyone out there ever tried speech recognition to make more money as an MT?
speech recognition
I was wondering about the pay rate (the usual pay rate). I was just notified by my current company that the speech recognition rate received is 5 cents a line. Is that one everyone else is getting for speech recognition. I understand the thinking is the pay is low because it is not much typing??? 
If using Speech Recognition, I don't like it. nm
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Speech recognition
Go to Google and put in voice recognition. The first thing that shows up is link to wikipedia. Scroll down a bit to Applications and Healthcare. It explains everything in that article. You can also go to other links that show up, too. Remember, research is a vital tool for an MT. I hope this helps.
Speech Recognition
The computer records the speech and the MT goes in and reviews the report to make sure everything is correct.
I am sure MTs know that RESEARCH is vital in our job. So is professionalism, some people should do some RESEARCH on it!!!!
Speech recognition.
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TT vs MQ speech recognition
Have worked on both MQ's ASR and TransTech's escription VR. TT's blows MQ's right out of the water... no comparison, TT's is a zillion times better. Just my opinion.
More OSi accounts going to speech recognition
Please, if someone is really in the know, please give info of what is going on. I'm starting to get worried now.
EXTEXT speech recognition
Anyone that does extext speech can you tell me a little bit about it. How many lines per hour are you able to get? Is it easy to hear?
You lost? QA was around before speech recognition
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Spheris Speech Recognition...
Could someone please tell me how Spheris' SR program is? I've worked with a couple of other SR programs and they were awful, so just wanted to get some opinions before I applied. Thanks!
Speech recognition, an oversell
Speech recognition is an oversell! The qualified Transcriptionist simply cannot be replaced by a machine that cannot understand the dictator. I heard the word presbyacusis clearly stated, and the Speech thingy typed: Please be a Q-tip For Social Director a pocket rectum. The best of my week was the when the dictator said the patient liked to play tennis for exercise. The Speech thingy had its mind elsewhere and transcribed play penis for exercise. My goodness, Lord help us all! I really find it more efficient to do straight transcription than correct every 3 to 4 words in a document. Am I alone out here?
actually I think it is speech recognition..nm..any info?
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I think it's automated speech recognition - nm
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JLG=the name of a MT service. SR=speech recognition
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Didn't know JLG had speech recognition!
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Was doing speech recognition for a california hospital.
What do you get paid for Speech Recognition editing? nm
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One more speech recognition editing question...sm
Do you feel that you get double your lines of what you were actually typing when you edit speech recognition or how do you compare? thanks
Automated or automatic speech recognition...nm
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read again - it's for speech recognition, 3-5 cents.
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Speech/Voice recognition fallout
I must pass long this info about what is happening with those facilities who go with speech/voice recognition. They have found that they need editors more than they thought. So they advertised for someone with 5+ years radiology experience to work in-house. Result? Nobody applied. The word had gotten around that they were trying to eliminate the need for MTs so nobody in the area applied. Now they are forced to make the remaining MTs that they have in-house do the QA and they must outsource the rest. Just FYI! :)
Best co's for speech recognition/editing new hire??
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Speech recognition, research, and professionalism
There are 2 different types of speech recognition, so maybe you need to do your research. Your answer certainly did not really explain much.
Being a true professional is certainly not being displayed by you shouting (using capital letters), so maybe you need to learn more about all these things.
Has anybody out there used Dragon speech recognition software to do this job?
What are the pros and cons...does it really work? Please post what you know about it! TIA
I'm happy with Webmedx. They pay probably the best speech recognition
line rate out there. Work is steady, pay is like clockwork. Bennies competetive. No complaints.
Speech recognition and the future regarding MT work. Does anyone besides myself have the feeling
this will overtake out typing work and we will become obsolete in time? Makes me really wonder if MT will be around for a long time
jokes on you, silly. editing is speech recognition, not qa.
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Does TranTech have speech recognition and is rate reduced?(sm)
Also how would you rate their SR program as compared to Medquist SR?
Speech Recognition Editing - Can someone explain/provide insight?
Can someone explain how Speech Recognition Editing works?
When a company hires people to do this, are they usually looking for MTs or those who have done regular QA before?
Do you listen to an entire audio file based on what a speech recognition program spits out and fix? If so, what kinds of fixes are you normally looking for?
I'm completely ignorant on this topic so if anyone could explain the basics, what they like/don't like about it, what it's like, etc. I'd appreciate it.
Also, is there a consensus that this is perhaps the future of MT? What do you think?
Voice Recognition question. Anyone with experience on Dictaphone Speech system
Is it relatively easy to maneuver through. Is it easy to double or triple your line count. Any all comments/suggestions welcomed.
He obtained his medical record - sm
By having the hospital send them to him after he gave his permission in writing. He then handed them to me. I don't work for the hospital and did not obtain the records in a professional capacity. Good grief!
There is NO Medical Record keeping in India for hospitals/physicians.
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Have you heard of electronic signature?
You know as well as I do that doctors do not have time to review their charts. Passing the buck and saying it's not my resposibility is appalling. If you don't know something, ask, never guess. Blanks don't cause any harm at all, asking is simple. With that attitude, I hope to God you never type a report for any of my famly!
Electronic Frontier Online Defamation Law - Defined
http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation
And don't try to type them into Word or an electronic dictionary to check spelling. Recruiters h
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Re-record
Curious - Is the re-record from a hospital system or tape? Our FTP works great from the TN location. Which do you work out of?
I would just like to say for the record that
but COULD have written it. dang. So much for keeping my mouth shut lol
For the record sm
I have FOUR accounts, about 7 hospitals. There are residents and ESLs. It is neurosurgery to podiatry and all parts in between. It is OP notes and cardiology ONLY. They are not short and they are not easy, not relative to other places I have worked. You think a 14-minute dictation on an all-day surgery is easy stuff, with an exhausted doctor?
I don't sit still well. I am up and up and up with the dog or a drink or the bathroom. I have an 8-hour shift and if I am lucky, I sit for 5.5 to 6 hours of it and I make my minimums easily with some extra, sometimes a lot extra.
I am still learning the platform, but I like it. I tend to get a bur up my backside about a word I can't find and I do tend to look up old reports, sometimes lots, sometimes a couple of them. This is what wastes my time, but not especially. I am doing less of this each day as I learn a few common things. Because I waste that time I have only sent 3 reports to QA all week and only double that number with any blanks. I WORK for this and I tenaciously research words so that I don't have blanks.
There will always be this negativity because not all of you work this hard. I am not going to say I am a better MT, I don't know that and I would not presume, but I do work hard with a good expander.
For the record
Just think...you are calling people in India low-life trash because they are trying to make a living and feed their families by doing the same type of work you do but for about 1/10 the cost. That must mean they are willing to do whatever they can to feed and cloth their families.
All kinds of industry is offshored these days because the company needs to make a profit. Without the profit being made by the offshore people that you call low lifes, you probably wouldn't be getting the 8 or 10cpl you are getting now because the company could not afford to pay you.
If Transcend doesn't care about their people, why did I get a personal phone call from the CEO during Medical Transcription Week? Of course they care about us. There would not be a company without us. Do they all know each of us by name? No....but the people I work directly with know me and are very caring and supportive if I need time off for a personal reason.
Some people are never happy and you may be one of them. You will always find something to bitch about if you want to bitch. A person can only be happy if they are grateful for what they have. Try and attitude of gratitude and it will make a difference.
OKAY LET ME SET THE RECORD.....
Straight. My reports have no PHI none whatsoever on them or in them or anything to that nature. I know exactly how the confidentiality works, I have had 5 years in a hospital facility doing more than just medical records, so I should know the HIPAA law, legal and nonlegal regulations. Many of you don't know if these were reports saved from my schooling or nothing. Many of you are just jumping the gun as usual, and it don't surprise me none. I am not getting sassy, but I think I left out additional information to let you think that. My fault on that part. You all have a nice day
And just for the record,
I am NOT an owner, supervisor, or QA person. I am one of the people sitting at the bottom of the hill.
Time for my bath, methinks.
for the record
I loved my job at DRC ~ ADORED is probably a better word. It was going to be where my career ended, when I was 66.
When Acusis ate DRC, I didn't wig out. It sounded like everything was going to be just fine. Little by little, though, it became apparent that regardless if we wanted to believe it or not, something bad was coming...
We just didn't know what.
To be perfectly honest, had my pay cut been only 10%, I would have stayed. Even 15% probably. Because even with a 10-15% pay cut, I still could have made bills doing what I loved to do, even if it meant putting up with 2145 emails a day and scraping to make lines.
20% was a deal breaker...30% was a deal breaker...and surely 50% was a deal breaker. I think they knew it would be. I think they didn't really care if we all left because we had mentored and edited and trained our replacements already.
The very few times I ever posted on this message board about Acusis before this life changer happened, it was only about positive things. How nice it was we got a mug, a notepad, post-its, a pen. I appreciated my job.
Too bad they didn't appreciate us.
The point is, I guess, that in this business, message boards like this are really our only conduit for information. It is where I have come every time I have been in the market for a job and where I have found the information I needed to form a decision about which companies to pursue and which ones to not.
Fact of the matter is, that the companies who get slammed the hardest, probably have it coming. As someone has said already, before all this you were hard pressed to even see the name Acusis on this board.
Now look at it.
It's a shame really.
But that is just my .45 cents worth
Here's a record low
Babysat my computer screen for nearly 12 hours today and made under 200 lines. What the heck is going on? I mean, I have heard of low work, but this is ridiculous.
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