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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by yamtaddle on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:20PM (#33411274)
If so, that's hilarious, because that's precisely one of the jobs all these expensive, painful-to-use computer systems were supposed to replace. You'd take a year or two course at junior college, to learn shorthand and drill some medical terminology so you'd be less likely to make a bunch of simple transcription mistakes, then go to work.
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by nradov on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:45PM (#33411746)
There's still a fairly large job market for medical transcriptionists, but that's a different job than being a medical scribe. Transcriptionists don't use shorthand any more, they mostly work from digital voice recordings. And they're typically not transcribing from scratch; now usually a voice recognition system does the first pass and then the human edits it to fix the ~2% errors. Transcriptionists don't usually work directly in EHRs, but their documents are fed into EHRs.
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by robertlagrant on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:06PM (#33413136)
Microsoft recently bought Nuance for this very reason.
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:40PM (#33415459)
It's doubly hilarious when you realize it's the inverse of what the office productivity software did to everyone.

Remind me again why do I have to manage my own meetings and prepare so many powerpoints and fill in so many forms as a... well, my position doesn't matter, because everyone is doing the same, no matter their role?

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