Inside skinny on MedScribe and ChartNet
Posted By: 38 years and counting on 2008-12-31
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I have read every posted comments on MedScribe and ChartNet, but many of the posts were from three years ago. I just hired on as full-time MTwith MedScribe of Jacksonville, FL, and I would appreciate any input on the company, personnel, and the platform (ChartNet). Any comments on either subject? Thanks. I lost a couple of accounts after years (cheaper the office managers said but did not answer me if American or Indian companies) and now I am back working for a lower line rate. Comments on productivity would be appreciated, too.
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Hello, I am very sorry I cannot tell you about Medscribe. You won't find any negative info on this board about them because they are related to the company and the recruiters who hire exclusively for Medscribe....if you follow the link on the side column to affiliates you will see the recruiter who hires for Medscribe. The monitor deletes all the info if negative about the company. I've seen a lot of negatives in the past and when I go back to find it,, it's completely gone.
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The skinny on Spheris rehire
The fact is...
When you terminate, your supervisor checks a little box at the end of your form that says "rehire" or "No-rehire."
If you quit without notice, or if you quit just to go work with someone else without giving your supervisor a chance to make things better, quit without any reason, or if you were especially difficult while you were working with the company with lots of production or quality warnings, etc., you will probably be more susceptible to the no-rehire-box check.
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I'm a skinny well-paid whiner and don't use a mouse.
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Make them give you the skinny before you go through the crap. (sm)
Their recruiters are probably the rudest you will meet, simply horrible and so unqualified or uneducated. They are a small company trying to look big. Probably have about 400-500 employes.
Must be a skinny person who thinks it's that easy. If it were, trust me, we'd all be thin.
No one wants to be overweight, noone what to contemplate surgery, but I think there is a conscious choice to want to live and will do anything to keep doing that with a decent quality of life. It's not always by choice that people are overweight. All I can think of here is ....empathy.. and I applaud anyone who cares enough about living to do whatever it takes, no matter how drastic. For some, it's their last chance to live so spare us all with the Just diet and exercise speech.
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Cymed uses Chartnet....I have been working for them part-time for several months now. Good employer, easy to work with...and definitely LOOKING for MTs!
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Chartnet
SPI uses Chartnet and Meditech.
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Chartnet definitely has all the nice features of ExText but is easier to use and more efficient IMO. Everything is pretty much a 1-key function. It does everything ExText does but one difference is you can have much longer Auto Text entries. I have entire reports in auto text (speed type) instead of templates. Also it is very easy to mark anything that you might want to go back and recheck as far as a voice marker so there is no stopping to write down where it is on the voice program. I have not worked in ExText in about 2 years so there might be updated versions that do this which I am not familiar with. Also a lot of little neat things, like you can hit Ctrl. Alt. D and your doctor list for the facility comes up. At that point you can hit enter on the correct doc and it automatically inserts, Dr. Whomever, into your report. I use this a lot when I am uncertain of a spelling.
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They use Chartnet and it is an awesome platform. It is the best I have ever worked with. It does have it's own expand type, but I rarely use it.
Chartnet.....
Does New England Medical Transcription still use this? Do you find it easy to get lines on? Does anyone care to share how many lines they get in an hour with Chartnet?
Thanks!
CHARTNET
I do agree Chartnet is easy to use...WHEN IT IS WORKING!!! It crashes at least once a week......
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SPI uses Chartnet. I also love this platform and thought I heard SPI bought the rights to Chartnet. Not a recommendation though for SPI.
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And it's very easy to use.
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Anyone familiar with Chartnet program? Is it user friendly?
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Chartnet
I loved Chartnet and thought it was the best program I had ever worked on. If you are considering SPI though be careful. Even with the efficient platform it is hard to make good money due to not being paid for spaces, headers/footers, templates, etc.
Chartnet and SPi
MTing: Do you work for SPi? I currently work there and boy do I agree with you trying to make a decent line. It really is not that easy either and the doctors I do I have been used to for 24 years. It is not the doctors. It is other things that make it hard.
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I worked at SPi. Chartnet wasn't the problem there. I was making great money with them until they kept sending work to the Philippines. That was the problem.
Chartnet
Better ask what version of Chartnet if you are trying different companies. The version of Chartnet I use is not Vista compatible.
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I cannot comment on MedScribe, but I did work on Chartnet for 3 years. I think it is an awesome platform and you should be able to be very productive on it. Best of luck with your new job.
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This suddenly started for me on Monday. I asked if we had had a big hiring boom but was told no. This is VERY unusual; I have never been out of work with them. I have to tell you,I left another company a couple of years ago for the same thing...there, this led to virtually being on-call all the time and just a big account pool with no primaries. I'm not saying this is what MedScribe is doing but warning bells are going off left and right. I am not a happy MT today. Something is amiss.
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If you use Chartnet as a transcription platform, can you tell me a little bit about how it works? Is it easy to use? Would you say it is productive? How does it work with demographics? Do they prefill? Any other information you could provide about ChartNet would be appreciated!
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I am used to DocQScribe which I absolutely love, however, I use Chartnet on my second job and I like it a lot. I would say the second best out there. Very easy to learn and demographics fill in for me. You will love it.
Chartnet was the BEST I have ever used...sm
Easy to learn and just awesome. DocQscribe....i have always HATED with a passion, Just can't get used to typing in that font....I have issues with Times New Roman and Arial Fonts. My favorite font is Courier New.
ChartNet
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Chartnet
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Hi all, looking for companies that offer the Chartnet platform. I do know about SPI and Medscribe. Are there any others? Thanks in advance.
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Thanks much for that info.
Does anyone know of a company who is using chartnet?
I love Chartnet and I can't find any companies who use it anywhere. Please let me know of some if there are any out there!
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Just a followup, if anyone is interested...On my second day at MedScribe and transcribed over 1,000 lines. Love the Chartnet and still do not use all of the little shortcuts it offers. You were right about ChartNet.
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Did not notice any change at all, I am on the new platform. Maybe you ought to talk to TL about moving over as they are moving everything over to Chartnet and it is just an awesome program. Just growing pains maybe but I did hear a new hospital was starting the first of March.
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my previous question about how you liked ChartNet. I have one more question. Does anyone use it with satellite internet? If so, does it work well for you? Someone told me that the platform is quite slow with satellite with looking up previous reports, etc. I don't want to start a new job if it's not going to be worth my while. Opinions from satellite users would be appreciated! Thanks to everyone.
I said in a former post it was Chartnet sm
but it was Ex-Text and required a Dictaphone pedal. The problems (again) had nothing to do with the foot pedal to begin with. It was something on their end that the hospital needed to fix (per their admission) two different accounts. Nothing like hanging on for a month or more.
Didn't know this subject would create such dialogue!
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to use, however I do use my Expander all the time. My old hands need all the help they can get.
ChartNet is a 70 or 75 character line count. Check into it. nm
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As I mentioned before, the best thing to do would be to send a resume directly to the medical records director. If they are in need of a transcriptionist, chances are they are going to walk that resume right down to HR and have them get in touch with you for an interview. And it also lets the MR Director know that "hey, there are people in the area, and we don't have to outsource overseas or out of the hospital."
I can't say it enough - I wish I had lived in St. Louis because I would have taken the job in a heartbeat. Some people did work at home and others worked on site.
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I love the fact that there is always work (except on a few occasions around holidays, etc). I love that I can generally get an answer to a question when I ask it. I love that my pay is always on time (as the previous person said). I love that they do not outsource to India. I agree, there have been some changes, but I really love MDI.
There are some minuses too, but I have worked for a few other nationals after working at a hospital, and really, MDI is the best I have seen.
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I was in a simlar situation once. I didn't want to burn my bridges, just in case the other job didn't work out so I told them I could not commit to full time as some personal issues came up but that I would be able to help them out 1 day a week. They allowed me to do this, and it ended up that I went full time with them later, as I actually made more money in the long run... better dicators, etc...
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Rolling On The Floor Scaring The Cat Laughing My @$$ And Other
Body Parts Off. Teresa, they may have an opening at OSi or SoftScript for you.
Thank you!!!! Please sm inside
Thanks for all the information! Did you feel that you were able to get yourself on some sort of 'schedule'? I just left somewhere because I had no idea from day to day when I would get work or how much and ended up waiting around all day long sometimes and either getting very little to nothing or too much at once for the TAT. Did it seem pretty manageable? (I would also rather work during the daytime hours...) Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your help!
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I worked for them recently (within a year). They had software changes earlier to that, so if you see negatives about technology problems, it was before that. Evidently they did have lots of problems back before they were on their current system. Still some occasional bugs.
IC only. Good accounts. Put you on one account, and you stay on that account. If you have a similar experience to mine, you won't run out of work on your account.
Software getting dated. Not written by/for MTs or with requests for MT input. Hence, you have the programmer(s) doing really strange Keystrokes that are not productivity-friendly. They fix one thing and break three others. Need to fire the programmers and invest a bit more in getting decent programmers.
Office staff--THE best, hands down. QA will leave you alone unless there's a problem. You don't get QA scores sent to you or nitpicking. You either have good quality or they'll be contacting you about it.
Hours--THE best, once again. You have a quota to get in every week, and you give them a weekend day. Other than that, you're free to get that time in when you can.
OTI is also the company in my experience that's come closest to actually treating ICs as ICs.
I have worked for many nationals, and OTI remains my best overall experience. I had to leave because of needing benefits. That's the only reason I left. I would recommend them to anybody who's got at least five years of acute care experience in the Basic 4.
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SoftScript pays up to 10.5 cents a line with full benefits.
JLG, I believe, pays up to 9.5 with benefits (or at least they used to).
Be sure and watch the job boards for hospitals hiring for at home workers. Good pay and full benefits at a great price. Don't settle without checking all options and best of luck to you.
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Their ad on MTJobs says 7 to 9 cents a line.
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