If you find this hard to believe, try to position a medical transcription company as part of today s informational food chain. Rather than the patient s chart being the final destination for a physician s dictated report, transcription is becoming a means to a totally new and different end. If the volume of the data generated is large enough, it can even make an MTSO that has achieved critical mass a juicy target for acquisition by a wealthy pharmaceutical company. The result is that, in the midst of today s corporate mergers and acquisitions, a frightening new reality is coming into focus. Corporate financial health has superseded the patient s health as the reason for dictating and transcribing reports.
Nobody really cares about the patient anymore.
Unless, of course, the patient can bolster the numbers in a spreadsheet.