How will voice recognition affect the future of medical transcription?
No doubt, you’ve heard different opinions and views on this subject. If you’re a medical transcriptionist you probably can’t understand how voice recognition can take over for a trained qualified medical transcriptionist. And you’re not alone.
Let’s dig a bit deeper into voice recognition and medical transcription.
As you already know, doctors are busy people. This is never more obvious then when they’re dictating their notes. It’s understandable they’re busy, and as their MT, I can surely forgive them but will the latest voice recognition software be as forgiving as me?
Not likely.
As a transcriptionist you will have typed through background noise, patients moaning, doctors eating their lunch, personal conversations (oops they forgot the recorder was on) and other incomprehensible noise. Not to mention, ESL doctors with heavy accents and very tired ER doctors after a long shift!
At this time there is no voice recognition software which can handle this type of voice recognition. It is impossible for the software to determine actual speech from mistakes in conversation, background noise, heavy accents, etc.
So what does this mean for our future?
I wouldn’t worry about voice recognition. Rumors of MTs beign out of r a job have been around long before I became an MT. Eight years later, there are still no real advances in this field.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Medical Transcription and Voice Recognition
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