I just have to fill in patient's name and everything else is automated and
Posted By: What I know on 2005-08-19
In Reply to: see... this is what I'm talking about - fellow MTer
even filling in the patient's name is made easy, I just type it and enter and it goes where it needs to do and then I type. The work is batched so I just keep typing until I have 10 -12 pages and then send, again all automated and then start another batch.
I worked for YOG for a short time years ago and they had so many demographics it took at least 5 minutes to fill them in, had to constantly look up stuff on the lists to find correct info and never got the same doctors twice to be able to learn doctor's information so you didn't have to keep looking it up.
My server has never been down, except during hurricanes last year, so no down time. A couple of times the hospital's server has been down and I've been able to get my lines, though had to take a break during my regular shift and work a little longer in the evening. Never went a day with NO work. System never locks up.
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ER already 100% automated
Please check out the article linked in my original message above.
I don't like their UNpersonable automated email...usually shy away from
companies that are too busy to make you more than a number.
I think it's automated speech recognition - nm
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Automated or automatic speech recognition...nm
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I got the same automated email, but did not get any additional emails...
apparently the left hand is not aware of what the right hand is doing. I would not bother with them at this point since they apparently are not on top of things. I would think they would have shut off the automated reply or at least changed it seeing as they have an ad running...makes ya wonder.
TT doesn't pay header and footer or any of the automated info. nm
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There was 1 positive post in Jan. I emailed them and got an automated reply. Have years of ex
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I got an automated email shortly after and received info from Debra shortly after that. NM
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Be patient...they always get
Well, this too has happened at my place of employment. This one girl would run her mouth about how great she was and how she was the best and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!!!!! Well, she was fired yesterday! She was doing things worse than cherry picking...gossiping. She lived off of it. One by one, all the women in the office realized how she was and one by one she has been left out in the cold by us all. She started missing work...having every excuse in the book from her poor old sick grandmother to her poor sick daughter to her poor sick self....which of course she has ulcers (so she says) probably from all the lies and deceipt. She thought her job was SO secure but even the "best" finally get found out. Now this place of employment will hopefully turn into a nice environment to work as she kept it upset all the time. So, my message is to be patient and eventually they all figure it out. Just do the best job you can do with what you got! Happy typing!
I think you just need to be patient,
I talked to her yesterday after waiting over a week and she is just overwhelmed trying to get back to people, she was very nice.
I'd be a bit more patient.
I had about a 24 hour lag between emailing and my offer. I think that most companies get swamped with resumes every time they post here and it just takes time to get through it all.
Be patient
Don't worry. You will hear back from them within 5 days. That's about how long it took for me to hear back from them. From what I've heard from others it's been about the same for them. Good luck.
Please be patient. SM
When mergers and other events occur in this industry and between companies, it is natural for those who are impacted to want to discuss.
If you have something you want to ask about or discuss, just post about it. You need to also keep in mind that everyone is not sitting here 24/7 waiting to respond to posts. Give it a little time.
It is NOT too difficult to read down through the page and read the different posts that are about MDI/Transcend versus other topics.
Thanks.
Can you fill me in, too?
I have done acute care for 17+ years. thanks
I would also ask about looking patient's names up and such.
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I don't mind..I'm patient (nm)
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Be Patient...They are swamped...
It was almost 2 weeks before I heard from them. You might drop them a quick phone call just to let them know you are interested. E-mail me if you want more.
She said no patient files were sent IM
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MDI is definitely worth a try. However you must be patient
and understand right away you are restricted to 5 reports a day or 20 minutes of spoken word. This goes on for 2 weeks or so, until you are ready to be let go onto full contract typing. That is the test. If you make it and you want to stay it is worth it. However, you must want to be a contractor and willing to go with the flow of workload and as the work comes and goes. Personally, I think it is fine for a back-up or part time job. Have never not had my part-time lines. Pay is always on time. So if you want to be patient, and understand the process of hiring you will be okay for part-time for sure. Good luck!
Not giving a patient's name
is a HIPAA violation. Report her to your supervisor.
Ummm...she said that the patient himself...
asked her to go over the records. I do believe that fact that the patient himself makes the request would be the required consent.
...better yet - direct to the patient.
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now, isn't that swell? For the patient, I mean..nm
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Those are big shoes to fill
I guess you've never worked on the inside of an MTSO business, but you wouldn't believe how physicians and hospitals are chipping away at our pay by demanding lower rates from the MTSOs. Some MTSOs that people on this site complain about offering offshored services to client did it to KEEP from losing their clients. When it starts with the doctors and hospitals, what choice do the MTSOs have but to pass that on to the MTs? It really is a vicious circle.
Some MTSOs team up with schools and offer interships where an MT in training works for free for a period of time to gain experience. Now trust me, THOSE savings are not passed on to the experienced MTs...that goes directly into the MTSO's pockets and those MTSO push their long-term, higher paid MTs out the door to save a few pennies with no trouble sleeping at night.
So what about a union? You're right. More jobs will be offshored. More experienced MTs will lose their jobs. Doesn't anyone remember what happened when the air traffic controllers went on strike and the president of our United States canned every single one of them and airports had to hire an entirely new staff of controllers? Did you see airlines stop flying passengers? Nope. Managers worked triple shifts until restaffing occurred, oh, without extra pay since they were salarired.
I don't pretend to know the answers as to how an MTSO should run its business but honest communication, good benefits and wages that have been lost in just a few short years (less than 10) would be nice. It should stick to its gun and promote keeping jobs in the states for the patients' sakes. And for the Indian physicians who have organized and created their own MTSO's to keep their families in India employed should be boycotted. MTs should educate anyone they know who uses a doctor to ask the physician where his/her transcription is done or if s/he even knows and use only physicians with American-based transcription.
Boycotts worked in South Carlolinia and other states to take down the Rebel flag. Why can't we have a similar affect? Mostly because we are not organized (I did NOT say unionized) and we do not generate the media coverage necessary to affect change.
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Had to fill all of it in when I left.
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demographic fill-ins
Top-of-the-line platforms will fill in demogrpahic screen automatically (if docs enter right numbers in the first place), and it's wonderful. Other platforms will fill in partially, and on the ancient and/or practically obsolete ones, the MT has to fill in everything. Also, most of us don't get paid to fill out our production sheets, etc., either. When I worked in-house at 2 hospitals, we did get credit for time away from keyboard, like answering phone, filling in time cards, in-service education, etc.; they had a formula for it and it was pretty fair compensation. Buth, that was then . . .
agree. you could also fill that cup the other way
and say bad credit implies one will work harder to keep afloat.
Also agree about checking a company's credit - HOW MANY TIMES have we heard 'they don't pay'? Is that not what gets reported? and relevant here?
If you didn't have to fill out
a 6-page application, you are lucky. I remember it being very tedious to fill out multiple applications, clicking off which specialties I had done, not being absolutely clear if they meant cardiology within a hospital setting or if they actually wanted to know if I had CLINIC cardiology experience, etc.
Working at home can make lots of people cranky. That's why MTs tend to have a reputation for being difficult. Or maybe a glycerin suppository and some MiraLax would help, LOL.
Yes they hire from outside and need to fill
QA doesn't always pay the bills.
Furthermore...when a doc dictates 56-year-old patient...
and we transcribe "a 56-year-old patient," or "this is a 56-year-old patient," what in the blue blazes difference does it make in patient care?!? This is just an instance of a QA person getting their sense of purpose by jumping on our tails. Truth be known, if we transcribe verbatim, they would get a sentence beginning with a number, "56." So, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't, thanks to our brothers and sisters in QA (et tu, Brute?). To cite yet another example, inter and intra all sound like "inner." 
Please be patient. We have received over 100 replies sm
HR will hopefully respond soon.
also from India-" The patient saw a demontologist."
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most doctors have no idea, how would the patient ever know?...sm
patient asks doctor, who does your transcriptions. Doctor replies company so-and-so on 12th street in Anywhere, Alabama. Patient checks transcription companies website, seems fine. We have MTs working for companies who they are not even aware are also employing fellow MTs from India. How in the world will a patient ever really know their records are leaving the country. It's up to the government to pass a law against outsourcing patient medical records out of hte country. If such a law woud pass, the companies should be investigated and slapped with huge financial fines or shut down. Nothing else will ever stop this.
patient data not paid
Fill in the patient data on a no-report and send it through. Watch as Bayscribe tells you the line count for the report was 0. The top ID info is not paid. Not a big deal to me, but people should be aware.
And this somehow DOES NOT compromise patient care???
Ridiculous. Many lawsuits brewing on the horizon with VR, especially with the change in the administration and the emphasis on health care.
You must have been on an old platform. That's my point - we don't have to fill in anything on
Its all computerized. You hit a search button, and then accept. That's not even 1 keystroke! Same thing with doctor searches, etc. You can run searches at a click by first name, last name, specialty - you name it. It takes seconds to find a doctor and then you just click "accept", and it fills in for you in the body of the report! Its great! I tried other companies lately, and its so antiquated. Back to paper lists and shuffling thru pages and pages of name, manually entering or correcting demos - Yuck. Five minutes til you get into even the first line of report! No thanks!
You fill in a time sheet
but why dread it? attitude is 60% of the challenge (or more). You might just like it better, i do.
oh wait, let me fill in the blanks:
you must be a bitter person to hate your job so much
there's no way VR will be able to do all the accents
once they go to India, they will be back for American quality
our jobs will never go away...
there. I already put them in there so no one has to run their long posts saying the same thing that is always said...
Does the demographics fill in on your account or do you ....
have to type them in? I had an account that filled in and it was not too bad. The account I have now must be searched out from the patient name to the type of document. Really sucks because it is so terrilby time consuming. Get a ESL saying the name and you can be looking at several minutes just to locate it.
I don't think any of them do, but some of them require VERY little time to fill in.
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NO demos to fill and a lot better than .0835!!!
I have great benefits, no demographics to fill in (unless error and maybe a MR# and name), and make in the double digits for my line count rate. Any MT with a lot of years acute care experience that settles for less than 0.09 or 0.095 is crazy. These jobs are out there.
I worked for Amphion a couple of years ago and I only stayed about 2 months due to the demographic issues.
Good Luck to all!!
Do you still have to fill out a timesheet with the keystrokes
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Here is the reason that rad job is hard to fill...
Pay is by the report. As I am training, the woman training me states that I will be doing a lot of diagnostic studies, that the reason is they are dictated during those hours. So, I just imagined myself typing huge reports for a buck and a quarter with no benefits and figured she was warning me before I got in too deep. If that is the account which is in the Houston area.
Now, I guess I am glad it happened since the word lay offs sends us all into a state of panic and anxiety equivalent to fight or flight and is an exhausting state especially while trying to produce perfect work.
Be patient and you will see over time your line counts will (sm)
pick up. You are doing much different work now than you were with your PT clinic account. In the long run your efforts will pay off. Just be sure that the line counting program they are using is accurate and there are no hidden surprises. I don't like the idea that you don't get paid for header information. That is crazy.
then by all means I will lose my bonus because the doc does not know the sex of his patient??
NOT!
so no platform, no patient info screen, etc....
I really like working for companies that have a platform. It seems to be faster for me. I type for a company with no platform and I have to download FTP files. It seems to slow me down.
I have been trying to be patient but have been working on my secondary account so much lately, I am
starting to think it's my primary. Been in the business a long time and understand slow times, but this has been a chronic problem for many months, so I understand poster's point of view. Stick it out if you can, if not, there are lots of other companies out there, but remember, the grass is always greener on the other side and you may be sorry you jumped ship. Hopefully you can find somewhere that will make you happy and feel appreciated.
I would say you've been patient long enough - move on.
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I agree, be patient - make sure you are using your expander - sm
to its fullest extent. I have had ShortHand for 2 years, and was not using nearly as many Expanders as I should have been. I found some lists on-line and now my lph is much higher.
Takes a lot of patient to correct same mistakes for
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Patient = Patience Thank goodness it is Saturday.
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