Any RAD MT at MDI-MD using Meditech and Cphone?
Posted By: Rad MT wanting info on MDI on 2008-03-04
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I use a c-phone on current hospital account - no problems with it and make good money using it. I have never used Meditech platform and would love to hear from any MDI-MD rad MT who has used this combination (Meditech with Cphone) on the pros and cons. They offered me a good per report rate so I am considering employment. Thanks.
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A year ago, she was using Meditech, had Rad only, and would lend you a Cphone, but
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Also use Meditech, but you need a Cphone (she'll lend it) and pay for a 2nd line. nm
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There are two types of Meditech. One is Meditech Magic, which has a blue sm
screen and is like WP5.1. It is a bit cumbersome but not bad once you get used to it.
The other is Meditech Client, which is WONDERFUL. It opens into Word and populates the demographics for you.
Neither are bad once you get used to them. I make great money using Magic and a lot of others complain about it.
cphone
I don't want to sound ignorant, but what exactly is a c-phone? how does it work?
Thank you for your kind help.
Pay is said to be low, 800 lpd is PT, as of Jan. 07 they were still Cphone only
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what is a Cphone?
anyone care to explain? Thank you for your help!
Do you need your own Cphone and own LD, not reimbursed? nm
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Not a Cphone - a Lanier!
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CPHONE AND EXERCISE
Never Mind, I turned the connection upside down and it worked. Thanks, All Have a Great Saturday. I just got out of the hospital for five days HIGH BP STROKE, MIGRAINE, DUE TO YOU GUESSED IT- TYPING ALL THE TIME, AND NO EXERCISE. Did 30 minutes of power walking already. Not ready to go to the grave yet. I challenge everyone to do at least 30 minutes of some form of exercise a day. 
Cphone is Dictaphone
C phone is actually a Dictaphone. Looks like a telephone and you dial into the hospital clinic for dictation. Has a foot pedal and headset. Technology has been around forever and is still used by a lot of places. You can find them on ebay for about $100-200.
Cphone is fine
Actually Cphone works fine for me. No waiting for files to pull up and sound quality depends on where you live and type of phone service. I've used it for years and years and have no problems with it.
they supply the cphone, but...sm
the accounts they have with C-phones are really AWFUL!
sorry...they will lend you a Cphone if needed. nm
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You need your own Cphone and LD plan for Execuscribe. Don't know anything else. nm
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Used to need a Cphone for there. I never got a reply the 2x I applied. nm
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Philbrick will lend you a Cphone, but you pay for your own LD. A yr
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do they still have the cphone accounts mixed in
with internet accounts? Thank you.
Do you need a second line or Cphone to work for QT? Do they have clinic? nm
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Do you need a Cphone and your own LD for all accounts or do they have any internet accts.? nm
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From an ad last year, you needed a Cphone to work. Don't know anything about them. nm
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They had an ad here a year ago for IC positions and you needed a Cphone. Don't know about now. nm
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I was recently offered a net acct with them, no Cphone. nm
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You need a second line as you use a Cphone, which she will lend to you. Said she had lots of work.nm
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You need a 2nd line and Cphone to work for them. 800 lpd is PT production. Someone posted a
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Someone else asking if you still need a Cphone & 2nd line to work for them. Any internet accts? nm
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They did away with the WC, but still need a Cphone & 2nd line as no internet accts. In past, they
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In 2006, you needed a Cphone & paid your own LD line to
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You needed a Cphone & 2nd line to work there in the past. nm
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Very heavy ESL on my acct, needed a Cphone, other things. They were very organized in their
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Past posts have been positive. They pay by the keystroke. Used to be all Cphone accts, think
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Is all Keystrokes work done on Lanier or Cphone systems? Do they have any 'net accounts? Thx. nm
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I was on an internet acct, no Cphone. ESL docs were swarming, tho', and I couldn't make good l
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Post from 2005 said you needed a Cphone and you HAD to buy Workman's Comp insurance to work
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Post from June 2006 said the ESL load was very heavy and you needed a Cphone & 2nd line. Used to
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Meditech
Will anyone having typed on Meditech system please tell me what it's like? Is it user friendly? Thank you very much.
Meditech
Meditech is okay once you are used to it AND if you can use Instant Text rather than those clumsy combinatio keys to do your macros. I think it has improved since I used it about 6 years ago. It is a BIG change from WP or MSWord, sort of like taking a giant step backwards.
meditech
I thank you for all of your comments. I do use Instant Text so would definitely want to be able to use that with Meditech system. But it actually doesn't sound like something I'd really like doing, from what I've read. More negatives than positives so far.
Meditech Rad
I use Meditech for radiology for windows, have been for 10 years. Over the years we have upgraded the program several times. I think it just depends on if the hospital is up to date on the programming. I took a second account that used Meditech and I don't know if the hospital was behind or the MTSO just did not understand the program like I do. For rad, after each report you do have to go through a series of screens before the report is saved. But that is just me. Another hospital could be different.
Meditech
Anybody know which companies use Meditech?
meditech
Spheris uses Meditech.
MediTech
I have been working in Meditech with Citrix Server now for 2-1/2 years and it's the pits. Even with new updates all the time, it will never compare to today's modern platforms.
Right..I do ERs on Meditech..(nm)
Is this Meditech?
If it is a slow platform, then you'll need at least 9.5 cpl just to make a go of it! 
Meditech
I have been working on the Meditech platform for one month, so I am fairly new. I am averaging only 100 to 125 lines per hour. I still have to refer to the instructions for things like, for example, how to close up spaces. It is a bit inconvenient to have to go through a bunch of screens before I start typing. I guess I would have to say I do not like the Meditech platform! I do have easy dictators, though. I am not a newbie; I have over 20 years of medical transcription experience, by the way.
Meditech
Place you a sticky note or short note pad to your monitor with the function key commands. Where you were referring to closing spaces, were you talking about joining lines? Go to the end of the sentence and space, then do Shift F6; this joins your sentence together. Do you mind telling me the account you are own? Send it to my email. I will be starting soon and was wondering about the account. Thanks.
Meditech
Very easy to learn, but you need a high-speed internet connection
meditech
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Don't like Meditech
There are too many screens to go through before you actually type. I can't get more than 125 lines an hour no matter what. Others do like Meditech, though. This is only my personal opinion.
Meditech
Jill, you have to go through screens and it is a database, which is hard to find a rhythm, but some really like it. It lags and goes down a lot, so be prepared to save your document if it is way long because if that connection gives out on you there goes your report. I would suggest being prepared to really lose money with Meditech at first. There are much better platforms out there. Meditech is a hospital program so it so drawn and bogged down with users especially during peak hours. Good luck whatever you decide. 
Meditech
I absolutely love MediTech! But then again I was there during installation and I am a superuser in RAD, OE and PCI modules so I comes a lot quicker.
I quit a facility that I still go back and work part time at and I can pick right up and I actually put out more work there. Of course it works better when you are working at the facility. Dial up would be hell due to the hang ups. If you are not familiar with medications and terminology it's tricky because it technically has NO medical dictionary. Keep Stedman's by. If you are working on a Word based system you should have access to your medical dictionary and then it converts back to meditech. When I type for this company at home I type in word and then I go to thier facility and copy and paste into meditech. I have to fix the bold and underlying which will not convert using C&P method but it saves me a 2 hour driving time. Just make sure you always spell check from the top of a document or it will tell you there are no errors! Both Rad and Order Entry have data entry sections but when you get the hang of it you can fly right through those. Use the canned text/expander a lot. In order entry or departmental typing for acute care stuff, when typing directly in the module, I don't have to send my reports right back so I actually hold them and then spellcheck and print all at once since spell check is so slow. Good luck. Hope that's not my part time job you're taking! 
If you cannot get around in Meditech to get more than 100 lph, than you sm
are not trying very hard. The hospital I work for outsourced our work to another company and I went to work for them (not Keystrokes). I have used Meditech Magic and Meditech Client and a strange one that is half-way between the two and never have had a problem getting more than 200 lph. I use an Expander and really use it a lot.
Then again, I used to love WP5.1 and it is very similar.
Different strokes for different folks.
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