Never mind, search function back up and working.
Posted By: ss on 2005-10-10
In Reply to: Looking for info on PMSI.. - ss
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MD-IT info? Search function not working...sm
I am wondering MD-IT ... specifically, do they hire IC, and are they only acute care or do they have clinic work? Their website doesn't give much in the way of specifics for employment, but directs to testing. If anyone has any information they want to share, would love to hear it! TIA. 
If you use the Search function
at the top of the page and put in HIP, there are a few posts from 2004 and 2005. Hope that helps a little. Are they hiring right now?
Cannot get search function to work. I go up to the box
at the top of the page for the Google search and move it to search ''MT Stars.com'' but it never comes back with anything. I have tried several companies that I know have been mentioned on this board but it always comes back with no results.
Spelling correctly would help search function. nm
try Search function, top of the board, to left of Topics
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The email function is not working.
If you don't mind working for a
company that doesn't give a crap about its employees or their accounts by all means go work there. They were the worst place I ever worked for and I am so glad I got out.
Most of us at OSI don't mind working holidays here & there
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So you don't mind working for less than minimum wage?
That's what a good Editor would make because most good editors that have 100% listen I know get between 2000-3000 lines a day. I think not. People like you who take these jobs bring all of us who have worked hard down. If you have only been an MT for 2 years, I would not think you would even qualify to be QA
If you don't mind working for a completely Indian-run company
Been there, done that 3 years ago...never again.
Would never go back there...do a search (Outsource Offshore too) (nm)
 QA and managers more important than MTs...
Search the archives back for the few months.
There' s lots of info on SoftScript. In my opinion, not a good place to work and I'm glad I didn't accept their offer.
Both search boxes are working absolutely fine for me.
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Just scroll back several days and search the pages for webmedx. nm
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This was discussed recently. Try a search or just read back thru all the pages to find. nm
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Go back PT. I never want to stop working.
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If I were working in my back bedroom or
in an office environment or hospital, it would make no difference to me if a family emergency came up. I am not going to sit there and type a week-old discharge summary instead of attending to my family first. They definitely have different values than we do. If anybody saw that 30 Days show a few weeks ago, they changed over to celebrating Christmas because that is a day most Americans do not work, and they would rather work on their celebrated/religious holidays just to be able to work. What I have been trying to figure out..... they have actual M.D.s typing medical reports. How bad is it over there that doctors need to transcribe?
Diskriter - That's odd because I have gone back and forth working for them - sm
for years and I have always resided in NY state - this goes back to 2001. Never been a problem for me.
I just can't stand the company, but being a NY state resident and employed by them has not been a problem.
I worked for them years ago, back in 1994. No one was working from home then... SM
Well, if you were working from home, you were coming in and picking of tapes. It was a pretty good place to work. I was just starting out as an MT so it was really good experience for me. They paid me hourly, but I was in house back then.
I worked for Keystrokes a few years back. There were some problems but was told they were working on
I had heard that before, too many times to count, so I left.
I came back 2 years ago and it was like night and day.
All of the old problems are gone. They blamed them on growing pains and never denied them. Instead they fixed them. They have my vote!
Good luck to you and please report back after you're working with them to give us
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I function without a lot of sleep
I try to get up at about 4 a.m., work until 7 when my daughter gets up, start working again at 8 a.m. until she comes home at 3. I guess I do work evenings sometimes, but my desk is right by the kitchen so I'm up and down a lot then. Sometimes I stay up until 11 or so to work after she goes to bed. I do sometimes feel like I'm always working, but I ran up some credit card bills a few years ago and promised to bring in a certain amount of money to help pay down that debt, and now I'm living up to my part of the bargain. Again, though, I do work a lot and sometimes feel like I'm missing out on life, but don't a lot of us feel that way?
cntr I function
gives you the # of reports. For example, so far today 13 reports gave me about 700 lines, a mix of OP notes and H&Ps. My company does not count the headers or footers either. I think 1500 lines a day or more is probably obtainable on this system. Im new, Im still busy plugging in normals and learning dictators. To have to type 30 or more reports as I was told by one company to even hit 1000 lines is just BS. Of course cntrl I was not enabled so I was essentially working blind. Took me about 2 months to catch on unfortunately.
Company Board, MTStar Search Box, (located below Google Search Box)
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Word function keys
Yes, this does happen. There is a little program that goes into your computer when they load Transnet, which disables the function keys of Word. Ctrl S in Word is Save, Ctrl S in Transnet is to search prior jobs, etc. Ctrl N in Word brings up a new document. Ctrl N in Transnet ends and spell checks the job. THis should go away when you UNINSTALL Transnet the proper way.
Use your zoom function to make it
larger but make sure to return it to 100% when you are done. It saves it the larger print if you don't. It is easy to enlarge before and then decrease after. I wouldn't want it to come to me other than 100% either....so I am very careful to maintain it when I am done as a courtesy.
yawning is a natural function but
so is flatulence. You don't mind if people and/or doctors do that right in your face without apologizing? Tired, bean-filled, or what not.
Cntr I function should be available within the program
if you're talking about the Extext program where you have to go to the Ichart website to get lines and cannot verify # of reports to go with those lines then this is shifty. There is a line counter within the program that works just fine when it is enabled.
When company does not allow CTRL i function to be used by its MT's.
EXText is the platform you transcribe in, but EXSpeech is the VR portion of Dictatphone EXText.
My STM said it was b/c the Alt-G and history function was creating sm
a potential HIPAA problem because it was copying a viewed patient name into your current document sometimes. Alt-G and history are connected somehow apparently? She also said they were bringing viewing history back later on this year.
They told us before the reason that function had been
disabled was because of the difference in counts, that program counts ALL words and ichart does not -- headers are not paid for and add up to a lot of lines. I don't think there is any difference from before.
Use the Google search box for MTStars.com, not the Search box at top of page. Lots of
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If you are using Express Scribe, you can use your function keys and...
the instructions are in the Help section or maybe it is in Setup. Good luck on the test!
Transtech has that function blocked from our use . . . go figure why?
I am at a loss for all this blocking ExText functions from us. Yes, I have worked on ExText before, also, and could use any function that it had to offer to the MT.
Reread, I do not use the Ctrl B function, so cannot answer. Sorry!
Company Board Search For box (not Google search box)
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search on Company Board Search For box (not Google).
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Is it common practice for companies to disable the cont.I function?
Does that necessarily mean anything?
TT sent out email saying CTRL i function is 7-12% higher than paid-for line counts,
so you would need to deduct 7-12% off function of CTRL I.
Per TT email regarding this subject, the headers and footers average between 7-12% of a document . . . Conversely, if you are transcribing a two to three line report/addendum, the header and footer may be as much as 50% or greater.
So, it is true that if we transcribe short reports, we are given the pleasure of transcribing almost FREE for TT !!!
This is about as clear as we MT's can get from TT regarding this line counting issue.
Is this a Google search or MT Stars search?
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dont search in Google box, use the Search Box below that
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dont search in Google box, use the Search Box below that
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It is as recent as a week ago, you need to search in the Search For box,
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search mtstarts box, below Google search box, ....
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use mtstars Search box, (below Google Search)
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search in Search Box (not Google box)
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search in Search For box below Google box
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I worked in QA for Transcending back in 2000-2001. They were paying hourly back then. SM
The accounts weren't too horribly bad. The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production. When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day. We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest. Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day. Then, they started counting lines. Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.
Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind. Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense. Then, we are told only check the blanks. I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word. Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota. I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on. When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards. Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production. So I left.
There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production. I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler. There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks.
I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there. Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly.
Good luck to you!
Phoenix Medcom- Another apply a few months back, ask to take a test and never heard back??
I applied a month or two ago, received an email from someone asking if I would take a test and said she was getting ready to go on vacation for a week, so I hurried and immediately and told her I'd love to take the test. I never heard back. I waiting thinking she went on vacation and would contact me when she got back to do the test but nothing...very strange..Just wondered if this happened to anyone else.
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
Has everyone heard back from Keystrokes yet regarding the email we received a while back?
Just wandering why I haven't heard any response yet.
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