[PAR35]

Saw an article recently that the faster growing job in the medical sector was medical transcriber, someone who sits there and fills in all the EMR/EHR cr@p so the nurses and docs can actually spend some face time with the patient.

Transcriber is probably a job without much future - technology is taking over. Menu driven input; first capture, and voice recognition are going to eat into that job description. And any time freed up won't mean more face time with the patient. It will just mean more bodies on the assembly line.

[mewzilla]

I’m not sure about the voice thing. Too many chances for misspellings, for example. I can’t tell you how many medical professionals I’ve encountered who can’t correctly pronounce generic drugs, for example.