Medical Transcription Trends

Doesn’t  voice recognition software transcribe voice information? Then how can it not be a threat to the medical transcriptionist whose primary job is to transcribe information? Let me explain.

The software cannot be used from day one, it needs to be ‘trained’. And not just by anybody but by the doctors who will be using it. A doctor has to familiarize the software with his/her voice by speaking into it over and over again. And doctors are always pressed for time. They cannot be expected to spend time and effort training the software.

Even after the training, one has to spend a considerable amount of time using the software. Doctors are required to dictate clearly and precisely. They are also required to make sure that they record information in a noise-free environment. The effort for recording medical information becomes equivalent to the effort for creating a medical document without the software. This beats the whole purpose of saving the time of doctors.

The results delivered by the software are never accurate. Yes, even after all the time and effort put in by the doctors. And it is obvious given that the quality of its results is directly proportional to the input.

The text transcribed by the software has to be edited and refined by a human being to make sense. It is the medical transcriptionist who brings sense and meaning to the text to create complete medical records.

The software is not intelligent. It cannot think or analyze like you. This is why the medical transcriptionist should not worry about the software. In fact, transcriptionists have started using the software to their advantage by letting it create the first draft of transcription.

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