Do you live in NJ? You have to go their to train and pick up their loaded computer. nm
Posted By: wanderer on 2006-09-04
In Reply to: Anyone have any information of Silent Type? nm - Becky
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Do you live in NJ? You have to go their to train and pick up their loaded computer. nm
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You have to go to NJ to train and pick up their computer & she pays a low per-page rate. nm
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Yes, you have to go there to pick up their loaded CPU. Pay wasn't that good, either. nm
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You have to use their computer. Not sure if it's loaded with DQS. nm
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The company computer comes loaded with whatever
you need to do the job. I guess they figure it is easier to load the computer and then send it to the MT rather than to connect via PC Anywhere or similar program to download the programs. You aren't paying to work for them, you are renting the equipment.
Heard from her last week. You still go to NJ to train and pick up their puter. Still pay by the
Are you being made to live at a computer
and be talked to like you're crap and being ripped off? We all have brains and if that is what you choose, it is no one else's fault, only yours. No one should ever think they are SET for life at anything.
if you had to pick one; medscribe or CyMed .. who and why would you pick em? considering both
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I don't know where you live but where I live foreclosures are rising and there are no jobs -- non
I worried about my employer for part of the winter as my accounts grew sparse. I had plan to switch to being an employee with benefits but dared not make the switch in this economy (this was last year this time, got it?)
I figured keeping my seniority was worth whatever security it afforded.
My accounts have rebounded some and I can pay my bills.
By economizing seriously, I have paid off my credit card and put some money aside, just in case. I'm breathing easier, thanks.
So, all in all, I'm not complaining. This last winter was brutal, but I had a job and I paid my bills. When employment rebounds and/or national health goes into effect, people will go to the doctor again and we will be busy.
My part of the world is like a ghost town -- everyone who could left to find work in the city -- many apparently leaving their homes to the banks. Several houses in my vicinity have been on the market more than 4 years.
Forgive me my loyalty ... it pays the bills.
What does yelling at the rest of us do for you?
You can opt just to use their loaded CPU. Can keep
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Can you have DQS and WebCorrect loaded at the
Is it possible to transfer the glossary from DQS to WebCorrect?
Yes, it is loaded with their version of DQS. nm
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That is a loaded question after today
The people are great. Very professional. The QA is wonderful. The platform is terrific and designed for high productivity although there are frequent periods of downtime, getting less often these days.
Yes you can do an average of 250 lph, just expect to do it FOR 8 HOURS EVERY SCHEDULED DAY, except when you don't have work, and then you are asked to work outside your schedule (basically Wednesday through Friday). If you want to meet your minimum and it takes you less than 8 hours, don't expect a rest until the 8 hours are up, unless there is no work.
The benefits are the best I've seen at any MT company, PTO (sick, vacation, personal) plus paid holidays in addition to any production you do on the holiday. Low cost health premiums with terrific plan coverage.
If you are able to work with them, they will certainly go out of their way to work with you. A very decent employer but like any other employer, it is feast on some days and famine on others.
None of our accounts have the work loaded into q's for anyone. sm
I don't mind hearing that someone is not a good fit with Keystrokes or does not like the account they have been given (they can't all be great). The addresses mean that you were on an ortho account. The ONLY reason someone does not like Keystrokes ortho is that the person in charge of ortho is very committed to both high quality and TAT. She keeps a QA score card on every MT under her, keeps a log of missed deadlines and lets people go if they cannot stay up to snuff. There is nothing wrong with that; I wish I could be more like her.
I think there are good companies and bad companies out there and have said many, many times that every company is not a good fit for every MT. If that were the case, there would be no job openings and no one looking for a job. However, the bad companies are the ones that do not pay, rip off the MTs in terms of false line counts, lose accounts all the time and allow cherry-picking. None of that applies to Keystrokes.
It sounds like you were not happy and I feel bad for you as KS is a great place to work!
I wanted to use my own computer and get rid of the RENT on TT computer, but Vista is not compatible.
Good way to make them money. Not have to upgrade software so that Vista is compatible with Vista. Huh?
JLG work loaded in chunks of whatever number sm
to train/QA they send three reports at a time. hope this helps. everyone is very friendly, considerate, and helpful...
Mine does. Just loaded it on my laptop this week.
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Precysers, if you have loaded a good spell-check,
Just click on my hidden e-mail address if you want to correspond privately.
I know Webmedx has a time clock - with MQ I put laundry in, got coffee, loaded DW (sm)
went to the bathroom, etc. without clocking out and still kept my lines per hour up just fine. With Webmedx do you clock out for all these little things or as long as you get lines per payperiod or per hour it works out?
One more computer question. I got my computer today and
trying to set it up. Man unpacking the box and setting everything up is a major undertaking; more so for me because I used a laptop before and my desk isn't tower friendly. Anyway, no info came with the tower and I don't yet have the password to get in (paperwork says to call M-F). Is the tower WiFi compatible? My DSL is hooked to a different computer and I wanted to know if I can setup new computer as WiFi or if I need to move modem to new computer and set other computer up as WiFi.
It depends on where you live. If you live in their
service area it would be cheaper than outside their service area. I only have rates for out of service area and medical is 139.13 for family or 168.42 depending on what plan you choose. Dental is 20.85 for family, vision is 5.13. These are per pay period.
Individual coverage would be 44.79/54.21 medical, 7.99 dental, and 1.71 vision.
I opted out of insurance as we have through my husband's job. I believe the cheaper insurance is a 70/30 plan and the more expensive an 80/20, not sure about co-pays. Deductibles are $2000 for family, not sure about individual.
they are willing to train
The training is not so much.... if you can type medical ....... and typing is the MAIN thing with lawyers.... you are IN. If you will show up for work... you are IN. The legalese is based on latin and so knowing the medical terminology, it's a breeze of a transition. They don't have all that much legalese. It is mostly English and stuffy forms of English. They dictate usually on a dictaphone. CHECK IT OUT. I know lawyers are weird, but how do you get weirder than what has happened to this MT business???? This is horrendous. Lawyers aren't going to cut your pay! I had my pay cut in MT two, no THREE different times, for no good reason excpet the owner wants to keep more money. That is not the way to treat a hard worker.
But ... you travel to train to CA ... what's not to like about that/ :-) sm
You can take it as a business expense. Of course, I have no family to consider and love to travel, so obviously I am not like a lot of people (in many ways! ha).
Don't you have to go to NJ to train? And pay was only 1.75 per page. nm
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I only know that you have to train in their office
in NJ for a few days. I live in NJ, but the other end of the state, and it just is not feasible for me to travel 3 or 4 hours each way for a few days. Too bad, though, as they missed out on an awesome MT! 
Any companies that will train...
on radiology until one is up to speed. I have 6 years experience with ER, clinic, discharge summaries, acute care, pathology and podiatry. I was looking to gain radiology experience. Thanks!
Let them train all their new hires on
My problem is that I cannot see why should I be moved to another account when my account is going to the new MT's they keep training? Problem lies in overhiring and not enough accounts!
Sounds like you may have to train twice
No, they are still using ExText - don't see why you would have to train twice.
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Sorry not interview, train M-F. nm
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TRAIN WRECK!
Let's just move on! Remember emails are often misunderstood as we cannot see or hear those speaking. Who cares anymore about the ridiculousness of this thread! BYE BYE
Been there, done that...The Train Wreck
A couple of weeks ago I posted that the hospital I worked for is outsourcing and dumping their inhouse transcription dept. I appreciate all the nice things people here said because so many of you have been there, done that.
I also guess that a lot of you have thought about starting up your own business. The other people I worked with at the hospital and I were always talking about it in a joking way because, to be honest, the people who ran the business at the hospital know nothing about transcription and they think we are just typing drones.
I stopped back in the office where I used to work and I am pleased to report that it was total chaos. The administration is trying to dump all the dictation onto an outside company based in India. They kept on a couple of Transcriptionist to clean up stuff. The person now in charge of the whole transcription process used to work in the billing office and she is now going to be proofing and overseeing the outside transcription service. They are pleased with themselves and very smug about all the money they will be saving the doctors.
The doctors are all spoilt. Most of their dictation for years has been An 88 year old female. Severe DJD. Bilateral knees. Referred by the bozo down the street. Yada yada yada. An we knew what they meant and would zip out a three page professional sounding report and referral letter. We corrected their mistakes, made sure they were talking about the right patient (often they weren't) and that they didn't commit any legal boo-boo like saying the patient was a drug addict. (One doctor I used to work for said this. I told the supervisor that he should not say things like that or he would get sued. She said the doctor knew what he was doing. Since she was not a transcriptionist she believed that. The doctor and the practice got sued and doctor went to work in a little clinic far, far away.)
I have to admit that I am enjoying the vision of the coming trainwreck. This is the second hospital I have worked for that jumped on the outsourcing train. The first one fired the service in six months and tried to rehire us transcriptionists, who by then had gone on to greener pastures. And this current hospital has handled the decision to outsource in such an unethical and nasty manner that I would not work for them again under any circumstances.
So, in short, has anybody thought seriously about starting up their own company? Of course other transcriptionists have done that and of course it is not as easy as it seems. What is the first step? I have the skills and I know many transcriptionists and a lot of doctors who are going to be really ticked off when the billing person they put in charge of their dictation goes belly up. And I have some really neat names in mind:
Typed In the USA.
Been There Done That.
Fingers For Hire.
Utalk We Type.
Transcribers Anonymous.
WordsRUs.(how do you make a backwards R?)
Anybody want to join me?
Why don't you ask your manager to train you - sm
at least as a backup- on one of the accts they are hiring for? The reason they have ads out is that they have new accounts coming on all the time; current MTs cannot fill all the spots (think midnight shift, weekends, etc) and that's why they still look for other MTs.
I never could figure out why, when the train - sm
whacks someone (who 99% of the time committed suicide), the whole rail system has to come to a halt for an investigation, and hundreds of people on the train are late for work.
Investigate what?
Cause of death = 'Hit by train'! How hard is that to figure out?
So, why don't they just cross train?? NM
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Agreed. What you train on is not necessarily what
you'll end up with. You'll never know what account you'll be on from day to day or hour to hour. I agree with the 1 to 2 days for support, but that is too long IMHO if you have several similar reports back to back and have to leave blanks in all of them.
Fellow IP train rider here. For why pay was off,
I worked there and had personal friendships with a couple of the acct managers and team leads. We were not getting paid for spaces. That is what I was told by middle management.
I was supposed to train last week -
I was supposed to train on Thursday and got an email saying that the trainer was going to have to reschedule. I called on Monday and she told me that she had been put on hold for scheduling because they were losing a major part of a big account and that there was no work for new people. The email on Thursday had just made it seem as if she had something going on and could not work us in that day. All this was after they had been calling me and emailing me for weeks about coming to work for them.
They didn't even have enough work to train me
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My STM wont train me on another account!
I have somehow angered my STM and she refuses to train me on a backup account, then threatens to fire me because I don't have enough hours! I keep sending in those stupid requests for help to the Solution Center telling them that I have no work, but she still emails me the next day wondering why I didn't have a full 8 hours! I keep hoping she will be promoted to some other job so that I may get a fair chance to train on another account, but so far it's a no-go. Also, if I get even one more stupid email from her bragging about her new car (I wish I was making enough to afford one!), her dog, her husband, her vacation, her cooking I may scream!!! Just send the account updates and shut up for goodness sake!!! Arrrrrghhhh!!!! I am currently looking for another job where hopefully I can make enough to survive, Webmedx obviously isn't that place.
Anyone told they must come in person to train....
when being hired as a home transcriber? Silent Type wants me to come to New Jersey for a 2-day training period (I'm in Ohio). I've being transcribing at home for 14 years. I'm stunned at this and have declined but just curious if any of you have been told this.
If you find a company to cross-train in
can you please post the name of the company. I have been wanting to get into radiology. I probably know more than I think I do. However, radiology and medical records transcription were done in separate parts of the hospital, so never got to practice what I learned.
thanks
Pay is lousy and you have to go in-office to train for way too long!
This was a while back so not sure if they have become more with it by now. Good luck!
Are you in NJ? You have to go therre to train. They used to pay a low per-page rate, don't know
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Any companies out there willing to train people for eScription that have never used it before but
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I only find a site on line that says they train for MT. Is there a job ad up
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I was hired recently & they did not have enough work to train me.
I had never heard of such a thing before.
then you would known recruiters sign on, don't train. Get with your supervisor.
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And just how long did it take you to train it to just your voice? Then multiply that x 300 sm
or so voices/accents such as at a teaching hospital. I have a friend who uses Dragon Medical and she now can achieve great speed, and it has saved her hands, but it took her TWO YEARS.
I am kind of on the fence about this whole thing. No matter what we think/feel/etc., VR is not going away. I have some some VR, and most of it is not even close to as bad as the post by the OP, which obviously was an exaggeration, but it certainly is not a money maker for me. I would sit there listening, realizing I could type it myself a lot faster.
I am glad you have it working for you. Good luck.
Where do you get the idea that TT is paying us to train for speech??????
I have seen absolutely no email on this subject of the MT being paid for training nor refresher course. How are you being paid -- by the hour?
We have had to train for everything on our own time, as we have to do everything else. . . reading emails, filling out timesheets, jotting down every job we do, etc.
There has been no email saying such as you are stating here in your post.
No, the MT will NEVER make as much money as before speech. NEVER.
The companies will, YES, but not the MT.
TransTech is definitely VR -- pressuring MT's greatly to train on VR
If you can afford a humongous decrease in your paycheck, then TT's VR is a good place for you. The work has been extremely low for a long time now. We get weekly emails pressuring us to train on VR. There is a HUGE push for VR, in order words. If you can make a decent line rate/count VR and cannot feel that you can take the decrease in your paycheck, you should look elsewhere.
They are a scary OVERHIRE at TT right now, and this has been going on for the past several months. It is hard to believe that they are still hiring, as you have been offered a job there, when we have no work most every week -- no matter what hours you get on the system.
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