I'll work for them again if they get another eScription account.
Posted By: Msla MT on 2007-06-14
In Reply to: Why did you leave? NM - ANON
The one I was on was lost. Not too heart broken as it was a pain in the butt account.
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I work on the eScription account.
I know I was hired because I needed no training for the software. I don't think they have the time or manpower to train people on the software. They want people to be able to jump right in.
I second Escription. It's the easiest platform you'll ever try. There is no VPN to log into, n
extra screens. You just log on the system, hit a button to get your job, type it and hit the upload and it is gone. Nothing else to do. I have used too many systems where you have to log into multiple screens etc.. before you can even get started. To me, Escription is way more productive. You will not have a lot of time wasted. JMO.
for escription account
4/8 is what you'll get paid. I didn't want to have my QA done in India so I didn't work for them but wound up working with a company that did their overflow work and never spoke to anyone who spoke English well, except a recruiter.
It is an escription account.
Not so ancient. Do they pay on time?
the account I will be on uses Escription
I don't know if that makes a difference. I have always used Dictaphone Extext. I used it at a hospital I used to work for and now at an MTSO and am running into the same problem you mentioned, I cannot get near as many lines per hour that I could at the hospital and they both claimed to count it the same way, 65 characters with spaces.
Are you on an eScription account?
For how long have you worked there?
TT uses Escription for at least 1 account (nm)
:-)
Only 1 account on escription is good
IF you can get the escription account starts with P it is decent lines. all the other accounts are crappy... LOTS of corrections for the substandard line rate you are paid of 3-4 cpl
If your waiting on an Escription account, you have a while to wait.
The work flow right now is up and down with most of the work being in the evening. They have overhired in my opinion. They had all of these accounts supposedly with a lot of work and then NOTHING.
Yeah I had applied for the Escription account (before I knew the insulting pay rate) with years of
experience and no one bothered to get back to me. Once they told me what they paid, I would have never accepted anyway, but I find it odd that they would not pursue someone with years of experience. I guess they knew there would be no one I would accept their pay. Apparently, they are hoping some desperate people apply, which is NOT me but best wishes to them.
maybe you'll get on a decent platform/account
nm
Congrats! I'm so very happy for you. Maybe we'll be on the same account. :-) nm
then that account will disappear and they'll assign another.
nm
sometimes you'll hear that there's a new account coming on board ...
sometimes that happens, sometimes it falls through ...
I'm not saying that they absolutely don't care ... but particularly if you are an independent contractor, it genuinely is not their problem.
Either way, the people who are willing to sit and wait for work will stay ... I've been one of them ... not ready to switch companies, need the lines to pay the bills.
I remember when, first of all, work was often backed up (and ALWAYS out of TAT -- the first 7 or so years I did MT) these were hospital accounts being done done by local companies who had history with each other ... The national bought out and underbid the smaller companies and one of their big selling points was TURNAROUND and they agreed to penalties into their contracts ... IMHO, many turnaround times I've heard of are silly -- ER reports and STAT H&Ps/Consults do affect patient care and could justify a 2-4 hour TAT -- most other work types could easily fit a 12-24 hour TAT with the option to flag as STAT.
It was great to be able to work any hour of any day -- now it's much more iffy and harder to make up lines if you have an unexpected down time. JMHO.
My primary account is a hosp in new orleans so I'm wondering if we'll have more charts in a fe
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I was told Escription would not work with Vista. Turned out it wouldn't work with my sm
Office Basic Edition 2003 either, but no one could figure out why, it was supposed to.
There is actually a section on the Dell website that offers Windows XP. I haven't checked it out as I'm not in the market, so I don't know if it costs extra. I have a Dell and it's been fine for me. I hate the ESL tech department, but it seems like most of them have that now.
Escription has been out of work. Dictaphone has lots of work.
Then when we MT's are **thrown on** an account because of lack of work on our account
What is so hard to understand about that?
Then we have that account info filed away in a folder in our Outlook Express by name of account and can look at past emails sent out regarding that account. Not fun to be tossed on an account that you have never seen NOR ever received an email on. Sounds like business to me.
That's going to be nuts...I do ASR work too, plus work split shifts. We'll NEED a spread shee
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ANYONE WORK ON ESCRIPTION
Does anyone who works on Escription have any good tips or hints for productivity or any other information to pass along. I would appreciate any additional help. I have just started on it. Thanks
If you work on Escription
If you work for Tammy on Escription, chances are you don't have work.
I'll love to know who you work for. I also work every weekend with no extra pay.
It'd be nice to get paid for all the nights and weekends I work.
I work on escription accounts.
pay 4/9 for 60-90 days, can't remember which, then 4/10. Very nice to work for. I've been there since Octoberish.
Doesn't escription work better than
what the Q has? People post their ASR funnies, and they are unbelievable. I think escription works better, but that's just through the grapevine.
do they send escription work to
or just beyondtxt work to india? I have been on escription.. my last paycheck is barely 300 bucks (due tomorrow) as there was NEVER any work on the accounts i had
You are lucky you work on eScription then... Try
MedQuist's ASR and report back! It doesn't learn anything and gets worse daily!
I will trade for your $16 an hour anyday. I am down to under 10 and only 4 years ago was around $25.
Not complaining about wages not going up but certainly would like them to remain the same!!!!
Sounds like TTS - Most companies using eScription run out of work often. nm
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My account has lots of work..ask for another account/nm
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Just be aware that not all Escription accounts pay the same. I worked for one company on Escription
struggling to maybe make $50 in 8-10 hours. I didnt know the difference as that was my first job on that platform and I just thought it was not a money maker. Then, I switched companies. I average $20-30 an hour and once I made $50 in an hour. I tried yet another company and I was lucky to make $9 an hour. The bottom line is that not all companies are alike, even though they use the Escription platform. What I have found is that goes according to how they set it up i.e. paying for footers, headers, spaces etc. Just dont be shocked if you dont make what you think you will. The companies know how to set it to where it benefits them and not you. As is the norm, not all companies are created equal out there regardless if they all use the same platform. That is what I am getting out.. Good luck.
I'll never work for another co. that isn't 100% U.S.!!! NEVER! nm
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Pretty soon they'll have us pay them to work
It's the same with most companies anymore. Here's how to tell a lot about the company before you aggravate yourself with training, etc.
Who has the most job offers posted? How frequently do they post them? If you see a company trying to hire all day, every day of the week they have a problem, because those they do hire do not stay.
A position that has to be posted so frequently is not a job worth having. Someone left that job for a reason, and it's probably the same reason you won't want that job either.
Tell me, does this sound like a job you would want?
IC at 6 cents a line - You have to give them a schedule when you work, and if you aren't working they call and beat you over the head?
Pretty soon, as I said, they will have us working for free, or worse we will owe them money to sit and type all day. LOL.
That's what happens with me, too; it'll work at the beginning of the day but then not.
My tech guy said he'd look into it but I'm thinking it's just a glitchy program.
I'll bet this one's a real joy to work for.....
;p
Go to work for them and you'll find out
LOLOLOLOL
If you ask for more lines, they'll work with you (NM)
:D
Believe me, you'll work weekends so don't
go bragging just yet. Chances are M-F will find you running out of work.
I'll tell you how its taking work
Say you, and others like you, come on (or remain on) at the beginning of my shift. The work volumes drop dramatically as YOU make up your hours - TAT issues or not. By the time you've made up your time, there's maybe an hour's worth of work left. That runs out rapidly as my shift was already FULLY staffed, and I get stuck sitting there the whole 12 hour window - and if I'm lucky enough work will trickle in during those extra 4 hours that ALL of us scheduled to work my shift that are fighting for it can get their time in and call it a night.
Night after night I run out of work an hour or 2 before my 8 hours are in. Sometimes I only have 20 minutes left to type - but I am forced to sit there 4 extra hours in order to get that stupid 20 minutes - knowing I'll be short EVERY night, so if I don't make my 8 tonight, the chances of me making it up another day are very slim, because everyone is flexing all over the place. Sure it gives us perfect TAT - it also gives us 4 hours of our lives a day, wasted and unpaid!
No I do NOT want to make it up on my days off. I am already spending 12+ hours a day chained to my workstation. My days off are sacred for my sanity. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but it certainly bothers me, and I quit the last job I had where flexing 24/7 was expected.
I know you need to make your hours. We all do. The MTs are just doing what they have to do. The only real solution is to STOP OVERHIRING. Otherwise flexing eventually gets forced on every employee on every shift, whether they mind it or not!
I guess you'll find out when you go to work there....sm
Just be sure to not resign from Transcend until you see if this other company is truly all they told you they would be.
Not much. They offshore, too. You'll get all the crap work.
Great idea. I'll work on this in
Thanks.
I don't think you'll find any work here..unless you have a C-phone...
Not much work here to keep me busy or even make my line requirements.
We must work for the same place.. I'll email you (nm)
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You'll have work today, but not tomorrow.
nm
You'll work twice as hard to get half as much, it seems
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2 Months There--ENOUGH! Only work you'll get plenty of there..sm
 Was there less than 2 months. The only work you'll get plenty of there is unpaid work, demographics, looking up names the dictator won't spell... if you complaint about the above, they'll terminate your contract. Thus, hard to get line count...there is little of that!
They'll work with the report being created in front of them...sm
With all the times I've had residents, PAs, or NPs dictate sentences, erase them, start again, erase them, and then end up saying go back to where I said [fill in the blank] and put [such and such] instead, I can't see a machine being able to correctly interpret all that. If they work with the document being created in front of them, they can fix all this stuff as they go along. Just highlight the old stuff they want out and replace it with the new stuff they really wanted.
I can't see the computers picking up medication errors, dosage errors, incorrect dates, new operative equipment, being able to correctly flag right/left, or correct spelling of cc'd physicians' names. Most likely there is another program running with it that would do a pop screen for amoxicillin 5000 mg tid to question it. Physician names are probably in a pop up screen too. Of course, it's not going to correct everything but when the COX-2 inhibitors were taken off the market do you think a human could go through all 5,785 charts to find the people who had been prescribed Celebrex to call them to tell them to stop taking it? Of course not. It's not a matter of IF MT's will be replaced, it's already  happening.
Even if you're FT, you'll be lucky to have enough work to get your lines,
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lol You'll be hard pressed to find work with
nm
First rule, never work for a company who says "I'll pay you when I get paid." sm
This is unacceptable. Any company with a decent client base gets paid at least net 30 days. I previously operated a small service and paid my subcontractors twice monthly despite being paid net 30 days by my physician groups. Yes, it was a hardship for me, but I brought those who worked hard to help me maintain my service first. Any company who pays their workers when they get paid, does not deserve to employ others. Plain and simple there is no excuse for this. Please, please find a company who values your work instead of using you.
Maybe is it for a particular account. I work M-F. You are required to work one weekend an month.
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Worst company to work for. Read the archives and you'll
be hard pressed to find anything good about this company.
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