Simply put....

These are people's lives and people's health.  I am NOT going to guess because their doctor doesn't give a crap and refuses to dictate clearly so lets his MT guess what he's trying to say and hopes she/he gets it right.  

I swear, this group might as well have farted or belched it all out - it would probably have been understood better than they way they dictated it.  And I'm not talking medical terminology either.  I'm talking basic simple English words that they slur all to you know where that is imperative to each patient's record. 

I know to some $$$$ is what counts.  Call me an odd ball because to me, integrity and knowing you did an accurate job is what counts. I can't do an accurate job without the doctor's help when it comes to dictating clearly.  It takes two in this business - the doctor and the MT -to get it right.  So ask me if I miss them.     

• amazed and horified at dictators sometimes - sm
  • I always figure if they don't care about their dictation, they probably don't care about their - txmt
  • amazing dictators, here's a light one 4u - MQ'r
  • Miami Children's Hospital dictator - speed dictators....*L*
    • Are you still in Miami? - I'm there.
      • ft lauderdale....nm - reading away here *S*
        • Pembroke Pines. Hello. Just got back from seeing - Rent. The play was better. Shell
  • When I worked in - mmtt
  • Had a speed-demon doc whose - definitely
  • it could be - muttonhead
  • It's called being an inconsiderate self-absorbed idiot - I find it hard to believe that
  • Hoo yah. I hear ya. Then you have the docs that. . . - omt
  • Speaking too fast - CuriousMLS
    • You are SO RIGHT!! Figured that - definitely
  • There is an old adage - "He that writes like he speaks writes badly." nm - Old Timer
  • Don't Know Y - Dead Serious
    • ..um...'scuse me...who do YOU work for? - It's the nature of the business
    • the tone of your post is so familiar - I just have to wonder
    • You might be projecting? - the original post did not say all that...
    • do we know each other? - didn't think I came off that miserable..sheesh
  • I do agree. If they talked to a colleague the way they talk to us, - in fact, anyone the way the talk to that machine.

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and then copy and paste it into the shell for Meditech.  I hated Meditech as well.  Yes, I did get used to it, but it is not MT friendly AT ALL!!! 

If I would guess though, your Word would work well since the spellcheck is better.  Try a small report, and see what happens. 

That makes the report too hard to read, thus more of a margin for errors.  And I put in an extra space after periods on VR that have only one.

No more, no less!  I don't care personally.  I just think that HIPAA thing is so over-the-top that this one jumped out at me.  I see why they have it, but sometimes it's a bit much.  My sis is the CEO of a Hospice in Chicago, and says it's a nightmare for them, so it depends on which side of the issue one is on at the moment.

I question that part of HIPAA regulations.  If a person can't match the demographics to a report, what is the freaking big deal that its confidentially be protected?  So what if anyone sees you're typing a report for "someone" with symptoms A, B, and C?  Aren't there zillions of people with those symptoms worldwide?  Unless you're in a teeny town typing reports for the ONLY hospital where it's possible only ONE person could have a report like that, its really crazy to think that the average layperson, even in they could understand WHAT they were reading in a report, could figure out from any given report WHO that report was for, or even what hospital in what part of the country.  Without the demos, WHAT security is breached and HOW is it considered a security breach????

I'm also over having to have a zillion constantly-changing passwords so I can sit and type in my secure house!  The amount of programs I have to use to type a single report are so complex and aggravating that unless someone came in here who works for the exact same company, nobody would have a clue how to go about bringing up a report and rooting through the demos.  And who the heck would even WANT to?

I can see the need for HIPAA inhouse, where there are tons of people who know the system floating around, patients around looking and listening, and local people knowing stuff about other locals.  But in the case of the remote, isolated MT, who will never meet a single doc, patient, or facility she types for, making us jump through HIPAA hoops is tiresome and pointless - especially since our Indian bretheren typing the same exact reports don't have to worry about it!

have entered viewpoints on certain subjects.  It is an insult to MTStars for you to entertain the notion that only one person would post here with views different than what you would like to see.  Get over yourself and have a nice day for a change.

:D

Watch and see MQ implode.  From one who knows from the inside looking out. 

For those who declare their love and loyalty to MQ, it's not reciprocated and the plans in the works by the MQ constantly changing management will soon let you see just how little they care about American MTs.  It's really kind of sad and the only hope for MQMTs is MQ being bought out.  Why do you think they keep changing management? 

that this person obviously works for a dream hospital.  There is probably only one place like that in existence. This is an actual sample of what my VR program spit out...She tolerated needs to come biopsy Osteen is a well. Prior stable and symptomatic of her laboratory.

The other reason I don't think it will be done by AVR is that then the medical records personnel would have to correct any issues with incorrect patients or visits, which they routinely pass on as the responsibility of the medical transcriptionists.  Maybe our profession will become patient verifier or something like that

What doctor's don't know is that speech recognition still requires A LOT of editing from a Transcriptionist in order for their report to be chart-ready.  If we let reports go as they are straight out of the SR software...  it just isn't going to happen.

I do strictly SR editing and there is a ton of editing that has to be done to each and every report.  There will still be plenty of work, it just depends on how adaptable we can become.  Of course, we will have to fight for a decent wage because the natural instinct of management is to want to pay us less, because in their minds we aren't working as hard if we don't have to type every single character in a report.  Nevermind the knowledge base we have... but that's a discussion for the future.