Anyone worked for FastChart and no longer need your 9-pin footpedal.
Posted By: mt on 2008-09-11
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My footpedal worked. I have an Infinity pedal.
The tech dept. is really nice, perhaps you should call them as listed on the testing site. They may be able to help. Good luck!
If I worked a longer day, I just put my regular shift, 3p-11p, or whatever. If I worked sm
an extra day, then I was told to fudge the hours around on the other days so it all came out to 40. I didn't really mind -- have learned not to expect overtime in this profession -- and I was happy to be able to work whenever I needed to get the lines I needed. However, them telling me directly to fudge on my time sheet would seem to be a violation of the wage and hour laws. I suppose it doesn't matter now if they do not even have enough work to make the minimum line count necessary. Several of the companies I thought were golden seem to have gotten a bit tarnished lately … sad.
It's longer than the "standard" 65-char. line so will take you longer to make those lines!
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you have to pay for the footpedal ($106).nm
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Footpedal
If I remember right MQ uses Docqscribe? The company I work for also uses this. I went to the Express Scribe web site and they have all the instructions on how to get your foot pedal to work with Express Scribe. My pedal works with both depending on which program I have open now, very happy about that!
Thanks - can you use a footpedal? nm
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footpedal
Thanks so much for the advice. So is a USB footpedal different than a wav pedal? Just want to make sure before I look on ebay. I guess I will look it up on Google and see what they have to say. Thanks for the help!!
Just a footpedal.
TransTech supplies the footpedal.
As far as I know, the only equipment they provide is a footpedal....sm
and the software, so you'd have to provide the rest of the equipment (computer, references books, etc.) Their website is www.gimtnet.com
Did you use the footpedal setup wizard?
If they ask about sending back the footpedal
you could wait 3 weeks, then tell them make a promise it is in the mail, then wait 3 days and email them and tell them you couldn't find their address but thought it was in Timbuktu as you spoke to someone there recently, then .....
FastChart
How is the pay? And, even if there is a low ESL percentage and the work flows, is it worth it if you're part-time? Thanks for any info.
FastChart
How much is low? I sent them my resume and am waiting to hear. Anybody know of any good companies that can work via satellite? I am moving to the Oregon Coast.
About fastchart - sm
We were using them for our ER reports, but they had to be let go because they were never transcribing. We had at one time 800 er reports waiting to be transcribed, and Fast Chart would probably do about 10-15 reports a day! Our supervisor would call and they had some excuse like we have a bigger hospital that needs our attention right now. That was the last straw, and they were let go. But on the good side, all of the problems we had with transcriptionists inhouse is no longer an issue - we now work at home and no longer have to outsource to other companies. It's such a nice change!!
FASTCHART
can anyone tell me what they know about fastchart? secure? lots of work? how is the pay?  i have been looking and looking and would like to have some insight if at all possible.
Thanks
fastchart
do you think it makes a difference with the low pay to begin with if they pay for everything including footers, headers, periods, demographic screen, everything that completes a medical chart as if you were looking at it yourself?
I appreciate any input!
Fastchart
Can anyone tell me if they had actually made a decent paycheck working with FastChart on the first shift?
Thank you!
Fastchart
Hi. Do you care to say where you are now? I have been looking 1 1/2 months but so far nothing looks too interesting. I have been interviewed but its either the low starting rate, platform or something. I know the perfect job does not exist but I think I will know the job is for me when it happens. so, just asking for some input from others where they are now especially when I hear they love it there. Thanks in advance.!!
fastchart
anyone with info on FastChart good or bad??
Fastchart
Anyone know anything about Fast Chart/Applied Medical Services?
FastChart anyone?
I am looking at testing with FastChart and wonder if anyone can give any info about them...work load, ease of software use, management, etc. I can only find info in the archives from 2006. Thanks in advance.
FastChart -sm
Also, 20% of your contracted lines need to be met on the weekends. But, very nice and professional people that work there.
FastChart
6 cpl that must be for straight transcription! I am at the highest level and that only pays 4 cpl for VR and if you ever go on QA you get knocked down to 3 cpl They always charge $7.50 per pay period to use the software but if you do not meet your contracted line count and the minimum is 10k lines per pay period you are charged a 2nd service fee and how it is calculated is some obscure formula. I was sick one pay period and was only able to transcribe 2000 lines and was rewarded with a pay check of (!!) 48 cents!! However if they run out of work they don't charge the 2nd service fee
Fastchart BEWARE
It is been one horrible, horrible month. Please contact me for further info.
Hate using keyboard for testing ? co. test can use MQ footpedal? nm)
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Is the Emdat footpedal specific to the software or will a regular
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FastChart, anyone with current info on this company...sm
Found lots of stuff in archives, but very old.
I wasn't there long enough, put in a 2-week notice but ended up leaving early, footpedal and last
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Need input on TransHealth, Oracle, FastChart, Amphion and Proscript
Anyone with the good, bad and ugly on any of these companies - please let me know. I'm too old and tired to be in this position again, so I want to make the right choice. Oracle and FastChart are IC, the others are as employees. Can't decide, first, if I want to commit to employee status, but with HIPAA, this may become a necessity in the future for all of us. Already got the ugly and nasty on OSi and Softscript. Anyone out there care to comment?
It's been longer than that for me.
I tend to get stuck with a lot of terrible dictations most of the time, which I don't understand either, but maybe that has something to do with why I can't get a decent line count. Every time I get on the system to work, there's always some horrible dictation skipped from earlier in the day just waiting for me. Just got done with a dictation that was 9 minutes long, but took me over 30 minutes to type due to being inaudible in spots and just basically a horrible dictation overall. I didn't even get 100 lines out of it either!!
no longer there but.
Had trouble getting paid on time.
Not for much longer.
I knew going in they were not paying for headers and footers, but did not realize they were going to take the percentage off the total line count. The headers/footers only account for about 5 to 10 lines per report, so they have quite a little scam going.
Whatever, they are no longer there anyway. nm
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Not much longer to be an MT
Medical transcription is going the way of the dinosaurs. Voice recognition is coming in fast now. We will be editing for awhile until they perfect it and feed the corrected copies back into the VR engine to train it to understand all the docs. I would give this field 5 more years maybe. We all have to move on and find something else unfortunately:(
Longer than others for me
I think it took them a week and then I didn't even get a pass/fail but a link to go on to the next test, which seemed to be some kind of personality profile. By that time, I had hired on with another company that was my first choice.
No longer a CMT
I WAS a CMT for over 20 years, it never got me any more money, it cost me to re-certify, cost me to go to seminars for CEC's, I had one company I worked for tell me I could only go to the National Convention for 2 days and I would only be paid if I worked their booth for those two days, so what was the use of going if I was going to be stuck in a recruitment booth insead of learning at any of the seminars? I still kept plugging away spending my time and money to keep that CMT behind my name. Then my mom passed away, in all the work of getting her estate settled, condo sold, etc. I forgot to send in my fee and CEC's verification slips. When I realized it had slipped my mind I called and wrote them a letter explaining the circumstances and that I had all the CEC's earned. Even offered to send a copy of the death cert. Their reply....too bad...so sad pay again to take the certification Test. NOT
The longer MQ MT is on DQS, the less lines
we get. There is no "getting used" to the program that is taking our line counts. Very familiar with DQS, have all normals/short cuts in place, very fast typist, and DQS "eats up lines". MedRite did not do that to us. Why do you think MQ changed to DQS ? -- so that the MT's would get more lines per hour ? NOT !
Katie is no longer there either
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If she's no longer there how will she see it? Ditto for
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You are a recruiter? Hopefully not for much longer.
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This is exactly why I know longer send anything. nm
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4-6 weeks...sometimes longer
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was it last fall?, or maybe longer, whenever...
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I am. I even sent them an e-mail that I no longer
worked for them and they still send me the stuff from Corporate. I don't get any more from the PS though.
Slave No Longer
Ditto to your post. This new compensation plan is insane. I am now having to work 12 hours a day instead of 8, while all the while making less $. I probably make less than the greeters at Wal-Mart. They expect us to be on standby during our scheduled shift, yet there is no work, and we are not compensated for this time with no work. Now I have work at midnight and on weekends in order to get my quota, and end up working what should be paid as overtime. I am going to call the labor board in my state because this cannot be legal. I suggest we all do the same.
Yes, they seem to have put in place a director of OPs that came from MQ, only to now be doing her damage at SPi. I understand she is also busy putting into place managers from MQ, so it is obvious what her agenda is...to mimic MQ, so we know where the direction of SPi is going, and it seems to hold true with this new comp plan.
In a matter of 18 months, SPi has successfully turned what was once a well-respected, successful company with a talented team of MTs and mangers that was once Cymed and turned it into a cold, disorganized machine. They have had to have have lost millions in revenue with all the clients and MTS who have quit them due to poor service and disorganization, including ongoing unresolved IT issues. It's almost as if they want to fail!
Folks, it's tiime we all stand up for what is right and make someone pay attention. What is a transcription company without transcriptionists? We are not slaves and we do have options. If SPi wants to be another MQ, then let's let them have it and see where they end up in the court system.
I have been in this profession long enough to know that you can be successful at whatever you do by working hard, treating people with respect, and never compromising your integrity, a virtue that is foreign to SPi. I for one am sick for us all at the latest turn of events and am going to spend this time when there are no jobs available making the necessary calls and then submit my resignation.
Let's all stand together and see how long this compensation plan works for them when there is no one to do the little work they have. They may have people offshore who will do it for even less than the slave wages they are paying us, so I say let them have it and suffer the consequences when what business they have left walks out the door.
Since you no longer work there
But if you need to keep repeatedly posting about your bad experience there, go ahead, its a free country. I was speaking of my current work volumes there, to another current employee. My post was not addressed former employees, and I made no mention of the validity of your past experience, so I don't understand why you felt the need to respond to my post. As you said, not everyone has the same experience, and I understand that...do you?
KC... It sounds like you are no longer there.
Could you tell me why? Was the pay on time and comparable?
WMX - no longer get hx on jobs - sm
Is this so we no longer can see who kicked back jobs and potentially report them if it is a repeat thing? Not trying to start a fuss, just curious.
I have done transcription probably longer than
you have been on this earth, almost 40 years now. I think I know probably as much about transcribing as most here, worked for all different specialities, please don’t make me lose it tonight with your holier than thou message. Like you are the only little girlie here that can transcribe.
no you haven't done it longer than I have sm
been on the earth! I h ave done this for 32 years myself and alot older than 40. You don't have a clue about me. But you are giving yourself away very rapidly. Don't have a holier than thou message. Why did it hit such a nerve.
Don't make me los it tonight........hmmmmmm are you threatening me??? What you gonna do take my work away?????????
Good grief! Dont believe you have been doing it 40 years either or you wouldn't have the attitude about loving VR!
no you haven't done it longer than I have sm
been on the earth! I h ave done this for 32 years myself and alot older than 40. You don't have a clue about me. But you are giving yourself away very rapidly. Don't have a holier than thou message. Why did it hit such a nerve.
Don't make me los it tonight........hmmmmmm are you threatening me??? What you gonna do take my work away?????????
Good grief! Dont believe you have been doing it 40 years either or you wouldn't have the attitude about loving VR!
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