VR won't eliminate the MT
Posted By: Snow Bunny on 2009-02-26
In Reply to: My interpretation - Alice
As long as MTs continue to do the editing. I mean, why pay 12+ cpl for the MT to do it all, when you can pay less than that for one person do the typing (jab at overseas) and the US MT can handle the editing.
>>>In time, though, I believe it is totally possible that the software will become so efficient that even the VR jobs will be few.
As I said before, only if it is trained correctly. And I decide to log times and production this morning to show people what I'm talking about. I dictated and proofed between 4:15 and 5:45 a.m. I'm getting paid for 636 lines.
And that's with straight dictation. I never went beyond that point, although there is WAY MORE you can do with the product. There's nothing that can be done on the keyboard that I can't do with this product.
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The more the system tries to eliminate MTs I think the more they (sm)
the more the system finds they really need the human touch in order to have a document worth the money for doctors to walk into court with.
However, I will say this. As we go into this depression -- and trust me we are there -- businesses have learned they don't have to CARE. They don't have to care about the health or well being of their employees -- and they are showing them the door rather than being decent about a work place.
So, they may find they need us humans in the chain of medicine - I think the courts will more and more not see law suits because nobody can afford to bring the charges. We will all be out here just struggling to keep body and soul together. Sad what has happened.
Are they going to eliminate the 12-hour
and going to a straight 8-hour shift or are they just requesting that you clock in and out as needed during the 12-hour window?
I think what they are doing is trying to eliminate QA jobs
I have been here for years and we have always had tons of work in QA. Lately, since they have become so hot and heavy with ISR (Intelligent? speech recognition - HARDLY!) that they are trying to get the MTs to stop using QA, there has been virtually no work in IQA. They want to make us all MT editors and pay us all peanuts.
I have seen the work that goes back to the clients and believe me, Webmedx is nowhere near good enough to send less than 7% of its work to IQA.
The clients are already complaining about quality. What do they think that bypassing IQA is going to accomplish? It just might get them a lawsuit because of some patient care error going through because an MT guessed at a medication or a dosage so that she didn't get dinged for sending the report to IQA.
I hope all companies who are trying this tactic get bit in the behind by this. Just one more way they are trying to take a penny out of our pockets to put in theirs!
Assign doctors and eliminate cp. I know, I know, it definitely would take some
additional managerial involvement but IMHO it would be a w/w situation. Happy transcriptionists, more dollars, happy happy happy
I would immediately eliminate Focus.
It is Indian run, low pay, and constant turnover. I haven't heard much good about Diskriter either, though certainly better than Focus. KS is good for some, not for others. It wasn't a good fit for me. Axolotol pays better than any of them, better benefits. The account they are hiring for has a high percentage of very challenging ESL dictators. The company itself is great though.
Stated Goal: Eliminate MTs this decade
Most are already aware (it is pretty obvious), but because some still refuse to open their eyes, I am posting the below from the Nuance website. It is actually a timeline of the Dictaphone Corporation's history, which is pretty interesting and goes back to Alexander Graham Bell.
Still, I find it noteworthy that they state in no uncertain terms that they want to "eliminate most manual transcription for healthcare in North America this decade."
"A major development took place in February 2006 when Burlington-Massachusetts-based Nuance Communications announced that it would acquire Dictaphone in a cash deal worth $357 million. In a news release Nuance Chairman and CEO Paul Ricci commented on the acquisition, which was completed by the end of March, stating: 'The combined resources, experience and talents of Nuance and Dictaphone will help accelerate the adoption of speech recognition to eliminate most manual transcription for healthcare in North America this decade, delivering over $5 billion in savings to care facilities and transcription service organizations.'
Under new parentage, Dictaphone was named a division of Nuance--the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division--and Schwager was named its president.
I think you are right. Eliminate cost. Be more competitive. Save profit margin.
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