FlashType is cheaper and works equally as well as Shorthand and has a free demo.
Posted By: see link inside on 2005-08-18
In Reply to: THANKS! - Curious
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MTStars FlashType works just like Shorthand and costs less.
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shorthand works great
I use ShortHand with Meditech and it works great. Used it for other programs as well.
Now I dont care for Meditech but that is another story...
Oh. I use my own expander ShortHand and it works perfectly.
No problem getting my 275 to 300+ lines an hour either.
Shorthand, any expander that works with Word
Great company to work for - some dictators are difficult to understand at first, very good compensation.
They use SpeedType built in to their system - works just like Shorthand.NM
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I thinkt that Shorthand works in more platforms, learned from experience. sm
I also think that not all platforms are bad, and that discouraging a fellow MT from learning more and Expander her horizons is not right. We should all learn as much about our field as possible and keep open minds as far as new technology is concerned.
There is a demo available (nm)
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Demo screens
For starters, there is way too much information you have to put into the demographics field, which slows you down considerably. Another thing is over 25 pages worth of account specifics that are you HAVE to memorize all while having to learn another account, which has over 16 pages of account specifics to memorize. A lot of the things you have to put in the demo screen could be taken care of on the other side. Such as having to put allegies in comment sections in the demo screen that is already put in the actual document. Just a bunch of truly nitpicky things that will drive you mad! I hope this helped.
They are d/l in the background, but once the next demo screen comes up,
it takes forever for the actual typing screen to come up. Frustrating.
Yes, Shorthand. They have an address datatbase that is in Shorthand, so that's what they sm
prefer you use. nm
Free enterprise. You are free to re-educate and retrain, as well!!!!
What's the complaint?!
Because it's cheaper to pay an MT (sm)
nothing to research the demographics than to pay a clerk min. wage.
Ax IS Cheaper
I felt I had to chime in too. On my insurance, I have myself, son and husband and only pay 153.00 per pay period. They ARE the cheapest I have found and have worked at several MT companies. I absolutely love Axolotl. 
actually not cheaper to pay it
Say you receive a service that the regular charge is $50.
Submitted through insurance, doctor is contracted with insurance company to discount price to $20 - you pay $20.
Telling doc you don't have insurance, doc does not discount - you pay $50.
Depends on your insurance how much your doc/hospital will discount...but its better than paying full price.
I'm sure they pay us for NJA because it's cheaper to
pay us to sit around and do nothing.
keystrokes ?cheaper
I heard from a friend that her long-time client changed to Keystrokes because they were cheaper, so I wondered what cheaper meant...
You can find them much cheaper, but you need
to be sure it is compatible with the software you will be using. Some companies have proprietary software and only certain pedals will work with it. If you don't already have a job where you need a foot pedal I would wait. You can use ExpressScribe and use hot keys to do testing and then get a foot pedal when you know what you will need. If you want to go ahead and get a pedal anyway and can find one cheap get a USB pedal. There are some pedals that are serial port, some that are game port, and then USB. You can get adapters for the first 2 to make them USB, but again it depends on the software you will be using it with. You can get new pedals at numerous places for $70 or less. The ones you see must come with software too, not just the pedal. You can find used ones for as low at $10 sometimes on e-bay. Also look on the equipment board here.
Sure they are cheaper, but remember that when....
your health insurance premiums continue to rise and costs of living in general are more expensive. You may have saved dollars on the front end, but believe me you will end up paying more in general for that cheaper-costing pool. Enjoy that pool!
$80 for $500 deductible, cheaper w/
.
Get private insurance. It is probably cheaper
and better than what company offers.
Won't find cheaper for emp+spouse for BC nm
they do not care about that and will find someone cheaper.
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65-character is the way it is now. The clients are smarter and cheaper than sm
they used to be. Very few have weekly pay. I agree about QA rudeness.
9-10 cents per gross line! Where? Sign me up !!!
I like the insurance they have now. It is cheaper than the one that my husband's company has. s
They have been trying to get new insurance for over a year but do not have the participation requirement filled, as they have let everyone know. However, I spoke to a manager who told me that the one that they have been working on since December looks good, just taking longer than expected as they keep asking questions.
I really wonder how much cheaper it is to send work overseas. When you
think about it, IC here gets about 4 cpl for VR and about 8 or 9 for straight typing. Overseas they have to go through a middle man or whoever owns the services and you cant tell me they arent getting a decent cut of the cpl and paying 3 cpl or so to their people. Just my thoughts. I bet the cost is very close anymore to what we earn. I see Delta is bringing its reservation call service back here from India because of all the complaints from US customers. I would expect it is the benefits here for employees that causes a problem costwise for MTs.
Most hospitals will. Pay your dues (work cheaper to get experience.)
Give TT some time to see if they can find cheaper plans
I also am greatly upset by the insurance hike, but I have decided to give them some time to see if they can come up with something more affordable. Like many of you, I have to insure my whole family, so this increase is astronomical.
The grass is not always greener. Changing jobs means switching out problems, and yes, some problems are easier to deal with than others. My last job (Amphion), I was so stressed out, I lost a lot of quality of life. I have young children. I can't afford to be a stressed out freak just like I can't afford the expensive health insurance. When I moved to TT, I regained my quality of life. I'm not so tired anymore, and I'm able to be a better mom. That means the world to me. I'll hang in patiently to see if another option can be found for the health insurance.
Free sure. There are free on-line fax
services, in fact I used one last week. Most do have limits on how often you can use and how many pages though. You obviously would have to scan pages into a document, but maybe she doesn't have a scanner either.
She could have mailed paperwork back.
Heartland will sell accounts, because when it is done overseas the cost for the client is cheaper
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The platform is Word. Their program works with Word but does not change how Word works. nm
The benefits just changed the first part of this month. I don't have them but I remember them being reasonabl for a single person. Family and spouse was not reasonable in any way (in my opinion).
Shorthand
Hi, I asked this question on the equipment board, but I haven't received any messages from anyone there, so I hope you don't mind my posting it here:
I've just started using the Shorthand expander and I love it, but I'm hoping someone will be able to tell me how to get it to capitalize the first letter of new sentences in a word document platform. It expands better than any program I've ever used, but it doesn't cap the first letter in the sentence and it would be So helpful if it did.
If anyone can share how to do that with me, I'd really appreciate it!! Or,if it can't be done please let me know that also:) Thanks in advance!!
Shorthand
I understand how to make a word capitalized if it's one of the entries in shorthand, but I'm talking about having the first word in any sentence come out capped even if it's not something I'm expanding. I do appreciate your answers, I really do, but they still don't address what I'm trying to do. I want to be able to type along and have the first letter of any given sentence be capped without doing it manually...like you normally can do when just typing along in Word and using autocorrect....except that I don't use autocorrect any longer and now use just ShortHand..and thought there must be a way to set it up to use that command of capping the first word in new sentences. That's what I need to know about:)
For the replies about how to set this up in autocorrect, I thank you, but if you notice I'm Not using autocorrect as when I copy and paste part of a report into my Word document, the copying and pasting procedure completely turns off autocorrect...but it doesn't bother ShortHand and I can still use my expanders in ShortHand..whereas nothing will expand from autocorrect if the text has been pasted in the document.
shorthand
Can you type in emdat using shorthand? I had always heard Expanders did not work with the program and would mess it up.
Yes, I use Shorthand. I still was using PRD+ and was able sm
to convert it, so I was very happy. It is amazing how many entries you end up with.
I still think that PRD+ is better but I am used to ShortHand now.
Shorthand & TA
Although you can't use ShortHand with TA. Fast Chart can import your word list into TAspeed for you to use so you don't have to recreat your list.
Shorthand
If you are trying to get an Expander that works in windows in general (email, ftp, any program)--then I use shorthand. I use it a lot when typing emails or anything really..good luck.
Or what about Shorthand? nm
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shorthand
I use MS Word the auto correct and Expanders and that seems to work fine. What would be different if I went to Instant Text or Flash Type of one of those? And what is a good one to use?
Shorthand?
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Yes. I'm at TT and use Shorthand.
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Can you use shorthand
with IChart? Thanks!
PC Shorthand
work very well with MediTech
with shorthand, you don't have to --sm
*fiddle with it*, it just works on it's own. I hated IT. Still have it in the box with an inch of dust on it. What a waste of a huge amount of money! with shorthand, you just start typing and any words entered into its dictionary by yu just expand on their own. Wish I had the money back I had spent on InstanText..180.00 as opposed to 29.99 ...um, gee, I don't know which to choose! *fiddling with it* to get it to work as opposed to just typing...hmmm.
Shorthand
I use ShortHand and love it.
I also use PC Shorthand...
...and really like it. It is easy to learn and easy to use. As one of the other posters said, you can get a 30-day free trial. Nothing to lose.
Why don't you just use Shorthand to...
ctrl+N/header/enter.
If you don't want to do that you can still use SH to expand into the header field. You don't have to manually type it out or pick from the list.
For numbered lists it's 1 keystroke - ctrl+L.
Very easy.
Will we be able to use our ShortHand with the new WMX VR? nm
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Shorthand shortcut
May I ask the name of the shorthand shortcut software you use?
How did you get shorthand to work with it?
Deb H said they did not think it would.
ExText. And I am able to use my Shorthand with it. nm
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Shorthand/Smartype
Hi: Only Shorthand is and they recommend it.
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