Do you have to use their computer still? Mentioned somewhere in

• TRANSCEND - jpf
  • My best friend - psp
    • do you know - Elaine
      • She's making more - psp
        • Transtech pays as much as Transcend - much better company too... nm
          • Do they - psp
            • worked for Transcend - Mary
            • TT does hire ICs, not sure about eScription - NM
  • It is probably the best of the big companies. - yes
  • Do you have to use their computer still? Mentioned somewhere in - the past. Found someone who likes doing VR with th
    • No you don't have to use their computer - You can use your own

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

Our EMR system did cut down on some things for us typists.  The medications and allergies were already in the patient's chart and therefore pulled through into the document (office visit letter) that the doctor created himself the day of the visit.  If there were changes to those meds, he would dictate the changes.  If there were no changes, he would state that.  That was one less thing for us to type.  It didn't change things for us greatly because we got paid hourly, but I'm sure that would cut lines out of someone who gets paid production.  It was a very new concept for our office at the time.  We had 21 physicians and 7 NP's so I can safely say half hated it and half loved it.  Some doctor's refused to go completely paperless and would always ask us to print hard copies of the latest test results and that allowed them to not have their faces glued to a laptop and actually pay attention to the patient.  I have not yet experienced the EMR/EHR system as an actual patient.  I'm sure I would be really alarmed at not getting to spend time with my doctor and instead only see the top of their head as they are clicking around in my virtual chart.  There are definitely pros and cons and I can see both.  As for it completely wiping out transcriptionists -- I have my doubts.  Dragon software years ago was supposed to have wiped us out as a profession and look what happened to that.  I know VR is a huge thing, but that too is still creating jobs.  I tend to be more optimistic.  The only thing constant in this world is change and we have 2 choices -- embrace that change and roll with the punches or sit and complain about it and make things worse.  Nothing is ever certain so I guess we will just have to wait and see.  No one can predict the future.

what a great way for terrorist organizations to infiltrate the US.

fine but most businesses, even small mom and pop ones, have so many hoops to jump through to even get started. Then there's the ugly taxes to pay, too.

I'm trying to figure out a business I could get into without all the crap. Sick of all the hoops. Even crafters have to have a license if they sell at shows and our farmer's market has the list of names of everyone that has a stand there that they must turn over to the government if asked, even if someone is just trying to make a buck in something temporary, like selling all their attic treasures.

I'll be able to retire soon. DH says I better sign up as soon as I can, but I'm still paying off bills after his surgery, so it's impossible. I need another 3 years to get on top. Anyway, when I didn't pay SS taxes for 3 years (no job), my SS $$ went down from $1000 to $200 a month and after 10 years, I'm now at the $800 /month mark now. Who can live on that?

I don't think that is what the poster you are nicely attacking was saying at all.  You are just over-interpreting her comments and attacking, all in a rather passive-aggressive manner.  Just making up more drama to add to the mix.  Its just so kindergarten to tell people to stay away when they voice their opinions and actually answer a question.  Were you the one who threw all the shovels out of the sandbox unless you got the color you wanted?  Were you the one who grabbed all the empty swings and tangled them up just so nobody, including you, could swing?  Sheesh. Grow up!

Your post said : My question is this, however, what if  high producers are treated differently than others? They are kind of like the employee who is always at work, on time, positive attitude versus the employee who calls off, is undependable, bad attitude.  Which one do you think would get better treatment?  That is pretty much a no brainer if you ask me!  There are also those MTs who are great employees and do the basic line count required of them.  They receive the basic pay that they were offered.  What is so wrong with that?  That is the effort they put into it. That is not always true.  I can tell you countless times that I went above and beyond what was required of me, and I had always, repeat always, found Transcend a good place to work.  Until recently when I started noticing little discrepancies with what I had been told and read from management and what had happened in actuality.  That doesn't mean that I am just going to up and quit, but it certainly does put a little bit of distrust into the equation, making it hard to believe other things that I'm told.  It doesn't mean I'm undependable, not at work, or have a bad attitude even after I had been told one thing by management and seen another.  But you also must admit that it is a little hard to express dissatisfaction internally within the company when it had been noted that a lot of concerns expressed internally were labeled as "emotional outbursts". How can one not become dissatisfied when our concerns are just dismissed as emotionality? (Just a side piece of information, I was not one of the MLSs accused of the emotional outbursts, but I just found it intimidating from a standpoint of expressing concerns in the future.)

You said: I scored 100% on all my tests for hire with Transcend.  I have 9 years' experience in clinic transcription.  I was hired in full time, benefits, etc.  I work on a clinic account and have a secondary that is hospital.  No, I did not have hospital experience when starting at Transcend.  Being the great company that they are, they were willing to train me and enhance my experience for both our benefits.  I make 0.0850 cents per line. I have a schedule, however, do not always work my hours but different ones according to what is going on in my life.  I dont ask if that is okay, I just do it.  If I cannot work in the morning, I do it at night.  No one has ever said anything to me about it because I do my lines.  According to what I was told when I tested there years ago, I received the same test score, came in with 10 years experience in acute care and have more than 5 different accounts now ALL acute care, including some of the most difficult accounts. Yet after years of working with Transcend I still do not make what you do. As far as not working your regular schedule but just fitting it in according to what is going on in your life, how is that dependable?  Our work group has been instructed not do to this not only by our A.M., but also by Larry because then you are stealing lines from people who are scheduled to work the ones you fit in around your lifestyle and it makes it harder for production to know how to schedule coverage. Yet, you say no one has ever said anything to you about it.  This is exactly what was meant by preferential treatment.

This is why I don't totally agree with your post.  I am not so unhappy that I am going to quit, but yet it really isn't fair to totally dismiss concerns of people like me just because you are having a different experience with the company than others.