tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post5619729120040309432..comments2024-03-01T03:17:37.454-05:00Comments on Dalai's PACS Blog: Voice Recognition and ValueDalaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775491711029994911noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post-37317399720700138122008-05-11T23:53:00.000-04:002008-05-11T23:53:00.000-04:00Nice blog. Well said about residents pulling their...Nice blog. Well said about residents pulling their hair out in the comment above. We actually nicknamed our software "TypeTech." By the way, I started a <A HREF="http://forum.mridoc.com/index.php?topic=17.0" REL="nofollow">"Voice Recognition to English Dictionary".</A> Please feel free to contribute your translations...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post-12241874740852632222007-12-16T09:58:00.000-05:002007-12-16T09:58:00.000-05:00The writing on the all is there: Hospitals will ra...The writing on the all is there: Hospitals will ram VR down all our throats thanks to these academic types (who probably have residents pulling their hair out trying to get VR to work).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post-9040610231691420572007-12-15T18:40:00.000-05:002007-12-15T18:40:00.000-05:00Hi Sam,Dig deeper. Individuals at MGH profited gr...Hi Sam,<BR/><BR/>Dig deeper. Individuals at MGH profited greatly by embracing and facilitating the start and use of Talk Technologies (sold to AGFA) and Commissure (sold to Nuance). The same people at MGH and Mike Mardini were involved with both.<BR/><BR/>I'm not implying anything wrong, there isn't/wasn't. I'm just stating that it sure is nice to have "Man's Greatest Hospital" get behind technology, sell it, and profit from it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post-81943944408050160922007-12-15T13:36:00.000-05:002007-12-15T13:36:00.000-05:00Right on. That editorial struck me as condescendin...Right on. That editorial struck me as condescending, too.<BR/><BR/>So many of the articles singing the praises of VR come from academic or hospital-based radiologists. Some apparently have ulterior motives for promoting VR, being consultants or paid lecturers on the subject. Other radiologists promoting VR have had VR thrust upon them by their hospital administrators, who see only the benefit of firing all transcriptionists without the cost in radiologists' time (which after all is free to those hospital administrators). Some radiologists in this latter category figure, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Maybe we can at least get some papers and presentations out of this bad situation." Finally, some radiologists switch to VR from a transcription environment that is truly atrocious -- inaccurate reports requiring many corrections, several-day turnaround times, or a high turnover rate in the pool of transcriptionists such that few get accustomed to the dictation habits of individual radiologists.<BR/><BR/>Our practice fits into none of those categories. We are a freestanding radiology group. We employ our own transcriptionists, most of whom have been with us over a decade. We have quick, accurate transcriptions, and I frequently see reports that I have marked "STAT" appear in the queue within five minutes.<BR/><BR/>The real question for me is, "Is there a group out there <I><B>in our same situation</B></I> that has switched from traditional transcription to VR and is happy they did so?" I have yet to encounter such a group. Most of the demonstration sites promoted by the VR makers are hospital-based -- someone else was paying the transcriptionists, and someone else made the decision to switch. Any advice those sites can give me is of limited utility.<BR/><BR/>Yes, the transcriptionists' salaries are ongoing and considerable, and they come out of my pocket. Yes, it'd be nice to reduce that. And yes, I understand that while radiologists' time is valuable, it's not <I><B>infinitely</B></I> valuable. Nevertheless, I remain unconvinced that doing away with transcriptionists altogether makes economic sense, particularly since all of us are only going to get busier in the next several years. I'd be willing to explore the possibility that VR gets the first crack at the transcription, changing our transcriptionists into editors, but for me it's gotta be a black box.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com