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Radnet - Is there an expander compatible with Radnet?

Posted By: New to this account on 2009-06-05
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Just got a job.  I have Instant Text which RadNet is not compatible with.  MS Word is not able to be used either. 


I am told that we are not allowed to C&P into the document. 


Typing every word out seems to me to be out of the question if I am paid on production (8 cpl w/spaces and no benefits) as I have quota to meet and this is radiology (redundant sentences used often). 


Wish I would have been told this initially...


Thanks! 




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Is the platform MT friendly, I guess is what I'm asking? Do you like it? Is it word-based? What expanders work with it? Any information you can give. TIA!
Have you linked it to RadNet? It should work

Are you kidding? I hated RadNet!
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I am really hoping this is just a bad spell, because if it continues like this I'm not going to be able to stand it.


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I'm speaking of Enterprise and radnet

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Radnet or Meditech Client or Novius. None of the others that I have
worked on are very productive. I work for Keystrokes on a Meditech account. I had heard that Meditech was horrible, but I am hitting 25 reports an hour!
No ICs. Employees only. They use several platforms. I am on a Radnet account sm
one of my back-up accounts is Meditech Client and one is HBO.
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or where the hospital is? I miss transcribing radiology in RadNet and am desperate to get back to it!
I sure didn't get that from mine - do you work on Radnet by chance? sm
That's a hospital-based platform and anyone who works on that is more inclined to have issues. Whatever your platform problems, they are not company-wide, that's for sure.
There are multiple platforms for rad including Radnet, Meditech, HBO Star, MiSys. Sm
I am on a MiSys account. I have a few friends on RadNet and ExText accounts. All radiology. I think it is the same for Medical Records too.


Open RadNet first and then open IT. Then the up Arrow and highlight to link, then OK.
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A special is defined as a special in Radnet - i.e. anything sm
from a PICC line placement to c-arm to interventional.
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We are the mercy of the hospitals except those that are on DQS now.
A few are compatible, but not all. More are becoming compatible though which is nice. sm
We are the mercy of the hospitals except those that are on DQS now.
I don't know why it's not compatible
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Would love to be working on my own computer which has Vista on it.


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Either program is compatible with ChartMatrix. nm
 
Thanks. What platform do they use and is Word compatible?

Vista is not compatible with many programs out there yet. (sm)
From what I hear, Vista and MOST transcription platforms are not compatible.
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AutoCorrect is not compatible with Extext ESP
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I don't mean using the features in MS-Word (Auto-Text, etc.), but something like Smartype or Shorthand? When I interviewed with them a couple of years ago, I was very impressed with them, but I can't fly without an Expander and there were issues with Lotus not counting expanded text with every expander I asked to use with it. It was only for that reason that I did not accept a position with them.
Not the OP, but what do you use for a PC-Dart compatible system or
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Just found out, Vista NOT compatible

just in case anybody else was wondering.