What exactly will they implement so that

Posted By: sj on 2008-12-09
In Reply to: The local hospital uses a system like this - gourdpainter

MTs are no longer needed? Anyone who has worked for any amount of time on a voice recognition platform knows that those reports require a human editor. (See Alice for erectile dysfunction versus Cialis for erectile dysfunction.) You are not going to find a neurosurgeon in the world who wants to point and click his way through a tumor resection. Do hospital administrators really think it is cost effective to pay a surgeon or even a hospitalist to do data entry instead of see patients?

Yes, some clinics have gone to point and click for chart notes, but EMR is a record-keeping system and the majority of them have dictation-transcription programs as part of the system. If they were there to truly phase out MT, the interface that nymt described above would not exist.

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Obama's 12/06 address......... sm - m
- I work on an EMR system for a hospital. - nymt
  - The local hospital uses a system like this - gourdpainter
    - What exactly will they implement so that - sj
      - Yes, for now those VRs need human - gourdpainter
      - See Alice!!!!! - Marmann
- I hate to be the bringer of doom and gloom - gourdpainter
  - Could it be possible that we're already... - Marmann
    - As far as about 5 years back......... sm - m
- We were talking about this yesterday...sm - ms
  - It will take some time to make this kind of change...... sm - m
    - I would say that - gourdpainter
      - I guess we will have to.............. sm - m

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