I totally disagree, I love Transcend... there are a lot of companies out there..

• MRC and Transcend - AmericanMT
  • Transcend... - Southern belle
  • Agree - melisa
    • Transcend - MGR
      • Reply to MGR - LUVMT
      • GRATIS...REQUIRED DEMOGRAPHIC DUTIES...SM - OlderButWiserMt
        • To Older but maybe not wiser - LUVMT
      • Is it complement or compliment? - mtMOM
        • Complement or compliment - LUVMT
      • You should probably look for another job.. - LuvTRCR
    • Transcend - MGR
      • I feel sorry for you! - JOB-LVR
  • Transcend - MGR
    • Transcend does more than Thank you cards... - HappyCamper
      • TRANSCEND - MGR
        • American Typer=MGR: Quit your racket! - Ladyfingers
          • I agree with Ladyfingers! - LUVMT
  • Transcend - SV
    • Account Managers/TL's Rock at Transcend! - JOB-LVR
      • Account managers - Pollyanna
    • IMO - Transcend is as good as it gets! - QueenQwerty
      • transcend - Charlene
      • Well Said! Me too! - ladyfingers
  • Transcend - PS
    • Cashing my paycheck . . . - JOB-LVR
    • Transcend - Shirley
      • TRANSCEND - MGR
        • Why on EARTH.... - LUVMT
    • I totally disagree, I love Transcend... there are a lot of companies out there.. - HappyCamper
      • Another happy transcender - franticmt

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The dictated H&P, CS, OP, DS reports are not so the hospital can be paid.  It is to provide continuity of care - aside from being a Joint Commission requirement upholding quality patient care.  JC decides the time lines these reports must be dictated and transcribed within.  It is NOT just so the coders can code or the hospital can get paid.  I transcribed a lot of reports from victims of 9/11.  They needed their transfer reports to go with them to their rehab or long-term facilities so the second facility would know the facts of their medical needs and how to care for them secondarily.

I don't know if you were around a few years back when many ER departments switched to a checklist to eliminate transcribed reports.  When the hospitals were audited and failed documentation requirements, the checklists were abandoned and a return was made to dictated reports.  The only checklists left in ERs now are for visits considered to be very low level triage patient not seen by a physician or PA.

Yes, there are rules about what must be included in all those reports, but that is a different topic and not linked to continuity of care.

Hope this clarifies some issues for you.

been with them for 2 years.  I almost did not go with them because of some negative postings on here but I am glad I did.  Shorthand is the easiest to use and from what you received (foot pedal and adaptor), I am going to assume that you are on the same account or similar to mine as I know that there are two new openings on that account.  If it is CMC, you will love it after you get used to it.  I bought my own copy of Shorthand so that it would remain mine, and it is under $100, I think $89.  The website is www.pcshorthand.com. 

Best advice - ask questions if you are unsure.  They are a great group.  Val is in charge of radiology and is very, very nice and helpful.  Ask for her if you need help

It amazes me that I'm seeing so much negativity on the board here regarding the new speech recognition programs out there  and the companies using them - and yet I see posts that in the companies using these systems most of the accounts have not been switched to these formats for editing. It appears to me that many of you are fearing the changes and fussing without actually working with the systems to see what it can (and can't) do for you and your productivity.

I've been in this industry since the 70s and remember when carbon paper was replaced with copiers.  Yup, some MTs (back then called "typists") thought they'd be replaced by a copier because they would no longer be typing say a Social Security  Disability Physical 3 times to give all of the copies necessary .... and yet they weren't replaced.

Next computers came out.  "The sky is falling and we'll be replaced by machines" was feared by many.... yet the field is still growing in jobs available.

Some of you old timers may remember programs like Foxx and other word processing programs out there way before WordPerfect was even dreamed of... and when you began typing with those programs you feared your job would be replaced.  Nope, still working all of these years later.

Then came along WordPerfect, followed by Word and now other programs that are better and help you be more productive - without taking away your job.

Face the facts, folks.   Technology is changing and with the government mandate that all medical records be on an electronic format within a few years hospitals have to try to find ways to cut costs to be able to afford this.... and speech recognition is the way to get this achieved.   Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance reimbursements continue to decrease to hospitals so they have to cut costs where-ever they can.   In the 1990s when I worked for a cardiovascular surgery group they would be reimbursed approximately $7000 for a triple bypass, and now they're lucky to get $1800... and yet the cost of running a surgical practice has gone up.   

There are now even robots to assist surgeons instead of nurses but yet a surgical RN is still in the operating room, because there are times the robot isn't going to be able to do what is needed for the surgeon.  Are surgical nurses screaming that the sky is falling and they'll be replaced?  I'm sure that some are - but others are realizing that they still have plenty of job opportunities still in the operating room because the computer will be helping them, not replacing them. 

The goal of speech recognition programs is to help you do your job quicker and more effectively, not replace you.  Think about that dictator from heck who talks 100 words per nannosecond while eating - the one you think nasty thoughts about the second you see his/her name pop up onto the screen.  I've seen some of these same speech recognition systems produce a darned good draft - and I was able to edit this report much faster than I could have even typed the motor mouth one time, much less go back through 3 times to fill in my own blanks, because the system helped me out on deciphering the jibbery-goo. 

The bottom line is this:  You shouldn't knock such systems until you try them.   I've got MT friends who thought they would hate editing and actually love it once they got used to it. 

With these systems infiltrating the market you can try to run and hide from them, but eventually they'll find you (just like the copiers, computers and various software programs have).   Another positive is that by companies using these programs that ARE helping keep your job here in the US.   The foreign-based MTs have a much harder time editing reports because they're not familiar enough with the language to easily spot the errors the system makes that the veteran MT would spot quickly.

We'd all love to go back to the days of getting paid 15 cpl for a gross line of work but if you ask around, in the industry the average company now collects 12-14 cpl, 65 character line, for transcription and much less than that for edited reports.  Therefore the high salaries are gone and it's all due to competition.  Back when the going rates charged to hospitals was 22-25 cpl for a gross line the higher line rates were abound, but that has all changed not only in this industry but others.  For example, look at the airlines - used to be that if you flew from New York to San Francisco Angeles it would cost you around $700 and now you can book it for around $260.  That's what competition has done to that industry.  I'm sure that none of you will call Delta and insist that you pay $700 for that flight just to help save the jobs of their employees who are looking at the strong possibility of that airline bankrupting on them. 

Therefore I encourage everyone to try new things before you knock them - you just might even like the new things on the market even better, and you'll find your hands and wrists suffer less wear and tear. 

I am a hospital employee.  I like the platform, it is basically word.  I am making more lines here than I ever have anywhere else.  I only work on one account.  The equipment is fine, brand new Dell with flat screen.  No problems in particular with supervisors or QA.  Hospital can be picky about things, but it is the hospital, not DK.  Benefits are great through the hospital, very affordable.  

DK is no worse than anywhere else, you just have to find what is best for you.  They are working fine for me