| Voice recognition technology has been threatening | | | | the medical report draft. It is crucial to have each |
| to eliminate the need for traditional medical | | | | rough document reviewed and edited by a |
| transcription for several years. However, the | | | | knowledeable medical transcriptionist. |
| reality of the situation is that, while speech | | | | The integrity of our healthcare industry is |
| recognition technology has no doubt increased in | | | | dependent on correct information being given to |
| importance in the healthcare industry, it is not | | | | doctors who are seeing the patients, and making |
| capable of replacing a traditional medical | | | | decisions on their behalf. An inaccurate medical |
| transcriptionist. Home medical transcription | | | | records file can spell disaster for a patient, and |
| employment is as plentiful as ever, which bodes | | | | cause major frustration to the healthcare delivery |
| well for the future. | | | | system. |
| But the one effect of voice recognition | | | | In time, more and more of the voice dictation |
| technology development is that the work style of | | | | files produced by physicians will be created |
| some medical transcriptionists has been | | | | through voice recognition software. This will force |
| transformed to an increasingly large degree. For | | | | the current pool of medical transcriptionists to |
| the most part, most medical transcriptionists still | | | | refurbish their skill sets. In place of listening and |
| transcribe the old-fashioned way: they listen to a | | | | transcribing word for word, the medical |
| dictation file and type a pretty much | | | | transcriptionist of the future will be listening to and |
| word-for-word report. | | | | editing a document that comes up on his or her |
| As voice recognition catches on, the starting point | | | | computer in an edit mode. |
| for a home medical transcriptionist is increasingly a | | | | State-of-the-art technology is truly bringing |
| rough draft of a file that has been produced by | | | | efficiency to the industry, but the need for |
| speech recognition software. | | | | competent home medical transcriptionists and |
| Typically, voice recognition software will be | | | | medical record editors will thrive, and progress |
| capable of producing an end product that is | | | | well into the future. In fact, there has never been |
| perhaps 60% to 80% correct. The issue, of | | | | a more opportune time to enter this exciting |
| course, is that only a trained medical | | | | career field! |
| transcriptionist can tell you where the errors lie in | | | | |