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| Many professions have been changed due to the | | | | transcriptionist does not have to. If you consider |
| proliferation of personal computers and all of the | | | | how long it would take a transcriptionist to go |
| functionality that they deliver. Few have been | | | | through a document simply to put in all of the |
| affected as much as the job of the medical | | | | punctuation, you could see that they may |
| transcriptionist. As speech recognition technology | | | | become twice as productive if they do not have |
| has been improved, a medical transcriptionist can | | | | to do this. |
| now produce much more output than they were | | | | |
| once able to. | | | | Many companies that have taken advantage of |
| | | | | transcription software with a complete platform |
| There may have been a time when people in the | | | | that is suitable for use anywhere. Most of the |
| industry were worried about the long-term | | | | actual speech recognition occurs on a remote |
| prospects of being a medical transcriptionist. The | | | | server and is then sent to a medical |
| way that the technology was progressing would | | | | transcriptionist. At that point they will have |
| seem to suggest that they would eventually be | | | | software on their computer that they can use to |
| completely replaced by speech recognition | | | | review and edit the document before returning it. |
| technology. It is not likely that this will ever | | | | In most cases the process of returning the |
| happen, and as advanced as transcription | | | | document to the client is an automated one, and |
| software becomes it will always be necessary to | | | | also does not require much time on the part of |
| have somebody looking at the finished document | | | | the transcriptionist. |
| before it is returned to a patient's file. The | | | | |
| information that is contained in that document is | | | | One of the things that this setup can allow for is |
| simply too important to leave entirely to the | | | | to have a medical transcriptionist work effectively |
| transcription software. | | | | at a home office. Different medical transcription |
| | | | | companies may hire employees or people to |
| The major difference that this transcription | | | | work as independent contractors to complete |
| software has made in the role of the medical | | | | their transcription work. This can present an |
| transcriptionist is to make them more efficient. If | | | | advantage both those people who no longer have |
| you have ever used voice recognition technology, | | | | to commute and to the companies that will not |
| you probably found that you could get it to | | | | have to spend the money to purchase or lease |
| correctly identify most of the words you spoke. | | | | office space. |
| You probably also noticed that it did not insert | | | | |
| any punctuation without you having to tell it to. | | | | The advances in transcription software don't just |
| | | | | benefit the workers and the companies who hire |
| More advanced transcription software is now | | | | them. Medical professionals can now have shorter |
| available that can turn recorded speech into | | | | turnaround times for updates to patient files. The |
| something that is fairly close to the final text | | | | patients will also benefit because there files are |
| output. Artificial intelligence software can identify | | | | more current and can store more information. |