The name is in the title - DICTATION BY PHONE (nt)
Posted By: Anon on 2008-09-17
In Reply to: Which company is this? - GotTheTShirt
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Dictation By Phone - WARNING!
I usually don't bash a company, but I feel this needs to be said. This is a warning . . . I worked for this company in Michigan. I did not get paid on the date I was told I would. When I again asked when payday was (thinking I had heard it incorrectly) I was told around the 1st and the 15th. So a payday that was supposed to be on the 15th, I didn't get paid until the 20th! Then had the next paycheck bounce. Needless to say, I'm out of there. Others have quit before the first payday and are still waiting to get paid for the days they did work. There is no organization. The owners are a couple who know nothing about medical transcription. The husband is loud and obnoxious, and tries to take care of computer and software issues because he doesn't want to pay someone to do it. His training? He used to manage a quick oil change business!
Is this all Internet dictation and no phone line? NM
NM
The title was something like
'EMR Scribe' or 'Medical Scribe' or some nonsense.
The title should say "I wish." nm
:)
Your title says it all...MT way too long
BITTER..
What is the storyline title to the article?
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Title: TRANSCEND QA Position
Can anyone tell me what the QA staff (team) is like at Transcend?
I’m thinking about applying for a position but want to know what the quotas
for QA are, and approximately how much of the total volume is ESL? The
good, bad and the ugly are all welcome!
Thanks
I think the title of post set people off...
tell your ex-coworker: no, you do not know of anyone hiring; if she asks again, tell her the same thing. Be thankful she did not ask to use you for a reference; then you have a problem.
It's TRX...the OP listed on the title of her post
You are right. I am going to implement this title immediately. Thank you very much! nm
nm
I understand even less now. MQ does not have the title of "proofer" either! No editors and no
proofers! Just makes me wonder who you really are. No offense, but a long time ago lots of lawyers were fishing for info using questions like yours. I've been with MQ for 14 years, in a lot of "titles", and never heard 1 office having proofers! Not one of our job descriptions! As for retroactive pay, I have never heard of that either! So guess I'll just exit now, as obviously cannot help you!
It's a mythical title created by the AAMT to get yet another fee out of us
Ask any doctor what a CMT is. They have never heard of it.
Well, there ya go.
I think it's just the fact that she is posting under a false title
NM
I would suspect that with the name Global in the title, its probably India...dunno though.
nm
Medical language specialist is a title made up by MTs. The truth is...sm
...we are transcriptionists. Our job is to type what the doc/PA/nurse dictates. Look at a court reporter; she can call herself a legal language specialist or a juris stenographer or whatever else she comes up with, but her job is to provide a transcript of WHAT IS SAID in court. She is not changing anything, and nobody expects her to. In fact, if she did, there would be huge repercussions!
Same for closed captioning transcriptionists. What is said goes in the ears and out the fingers, no changes.
The difference between us and them is that we deal in medical language.
My title and my job is medical transcriptionist. I have also been a transcription editor. If the account says type verbatim, I do just that, and it matters not to me if the doc ends the sentence with a preposition. I'm here to provide a hard copy of what he said, not make him look like he went to charm school. If the doc/site/account/client decides the charts look foolish, they are free to allow me light editing privileges for the sake of clarity.
If you want to correct someone else's words, become a copy editor.
Worked on C-phone for 10 years with 1 phone line
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C-phone - I purchased a c-phone from someone in Oklahoma but never got it. *sm*
First she told me her grandmother died. Then she told me she mailed it. Then she told me her daughter was having chemotherapy. Call me naive, but I thought she was sincere and cannot imagine anyone using their daughter as an excuse. If this is the same person from Oklahoma, I sure would like to know about it because now I want my money back.
I don't have a second phone line ... cable modem for the internet, regular line for my C-phone.
If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.
And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert. Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling. :-)
Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)
C-Phone = Connexions Phone
Dictaphone is a company and one of their many products is a C-Phone.
http://shop.dictaphone.com/productDetail.asp?id=27
Net Dictation
Any information on this company I cant find anything
I had some really bad dictation like that
when I had my older computer, which didn't have a sound equalizer. Way too much time spent and way too many blanks. I downloaded a free trial of an equalizer and - voila! I could hear! I ended up paying about $18 after my free trial expired because it made such a difference. E-mail if you want info.
ESL dictation
NM -- It is called being a professional. I realize that a lot of the newer MTs have not had the benefit of working in-house and having more experienced coworkers help them through this, but it is a big part of the job. I also agree with Lillybelle that there is a limit of what an MT should have to put up with. In my opinion that is when it goes to QA and becomes their problem. If you want to just be a typists and make a mediocre salary then you can due just do the gravy work and not improve your skills. But if you want to learn the job, act like a professional, and be able to demand an excellent salary for the job you due, then you need to be well rounded as an MT.
ER dictation
I'd love to find a job doing ERs, anyone know of any place that has an abundance where you could do only ERs?
I haven't gotten particularly bad dictation and
really good dictation. I did switch from not using the quickbar to using it and I'm not sure if that's when I noticed the change or not - but it makes sense that if you are using the quickbar you are not typing out as much so you should be making MORE, not less. Maybe I will go back to not using the quickbar and see if I make more again, but I don't really think that's it. Something's funky is all I know. If I could make $30 an hour on a consistent basis I would be happy, but I just can't seem to do it ever anymore.
Very low pay, they want 120 minutes of dictation sm
per day. I did all ER work for overflow account, never anything else. Pay is once a month, I was IC status. Platform not very MT friendly, had to put in all headers, lots of extras.
A Station For Dictation
Does anyone have any information on company called A Station For Dictation in Pensacola, FL?
Dictation Solutions
Has anybody worked for this company out of Houston, Texas?
I Know Med dictation platform
Has anyone used this platform? If so, what did you think of it?
Dictation Solutions
I work there PT. Great MTSO to work for. Different accounts have different platforms and different pay scale. Always paid on time and pay depends on the account. I don't know anything about the pain management acct though.
Lanier at MDI is just for the dictation...sm
It connects to your telephone. If you only have 1 phone line, it will stay busy the entire time you are connected, you cannot use call waiting. You also pay the long distance. The Lanier gives you the voice to type and you type the reports on your computer in the Bayscribe program which means you have to connect to that website on the internet. Bayscribe does not fill in the Lanier screen info, job numbers, dates, etc. You have to do that manually. You do not have access to other reports, only ones you have done previously and you cannot access even that when you are in a report (unless you go out and come back and restore the report as if the power went off, which is way too much trouble).
One good thing is that if you have another phone line you could use dial up if you don't have DSL or cable.
Pay is by the minute of dictation.
There is a company on the Job Seekers board that states that the pay is by the minute of dictation. I have never heard of this, has anyone else?
Dictation in the wilderness
I might be a bit of a spoiled brat, but I am thinking by now I should have heard from Webmedx (tested on Monday 02/11) and Diskriter (tested on Tuesday 02/12). I think myself so grand at scoring well on these tests that I am flummoxed to not have heard. Anybody out there who'd care to share how long it took to hear back from either of these companies? Life is short, but those bleepin' voice files are long. Sigh. The Sorrow and the Self-Pity, ya know?
Minutes of Dictation sm
If you type over 140 minutes of dictation in an 8 hour period, how many lines do YOU get at your company?? TIA
ESL dictation originators
Had my share of ESL dictations at medical center with rotating residents / constantly new dialects to learn and also pushing for that darn line count...these difficult dictators should be Weighted somehow so that they count for more than straight english dictation. I have been taken advantage of for a long long time/got layoff notice now after 17 years...geese guess ill live on the street!.
if you transcribe around 1 hr of dictation per day are you pt or ft?
nm
dictation time
Last I did it this way, we calculated a 3:1 ratio, i.e., 3 hours to do 1 hour of dictation. Pretty rough, but it worked when I ran an MTSO. Didn't know folks still calculated this way.
Rosie
It's the "normal" dictation.
In my experience, template lines are the lines that you do not have to type. For instance, if you have a doctor that says to use his normal dictation, the template lines are that part of the dictation that is canned as opposed to the part that you type in.
dictation loads
It would be interesting to see from a larger MTSO who has some long-time clients how the dictation load is compared to a few years ago. It could be the economy, but only the MTSOs know for sure if there is less dictation. Otherwise, I'd say it's a combination of overstaffing, individual MTs taking more lines per person because of VR, India, EMR, etc., etc. Probably lots of factors.
I'm not putting off college for a career change any longer. My application for spring semester is already in.
Cymed Dictation Dollars
Does anybody know what these are? Is this something new that we haven't been told about yet? It seems that since they are posting this as a benefit for new-hires that they should inform their current employees about it, or am I dreaming?
Who are they gonna give all the bad dictation to? (sm)
I really should start showing on my resume I've only worked for 3 years. Maybe I'd get the good accounts for once.
So what did I do before that? Oh, I guess I didn't need a job. Maybe they'd stop slinging me all the sh**.
RE: Medical Dictation Services
I would say it depends on the account. The problems the above poster has, I have not experienced at all, though I am only part-time. My platform is totally internet based- BayScribe which handles the voice and the transcription platform. So therefore, I never experience requested dictation completed.
DSG=Dictation Services Group
nm
MT per dictation minute rate?
I never heard that one. In MT work 1 dictated minute = 4-6 typing minutes. I'd quit.
DSG (Dictation Services Group-GA)
Does anyone have any info as to why this company seems to be hiring a lot lately? Are they having a bit exodus of transcriptionists? Any info would be appreciated. I would consider working for DSG, but some recent posts and DSG's recent numerous ads make me leery. Thanks.
Dictation Services Group
Anyone know anything about this company...I saw they use DocQScribe according to the Job Seekers Board and they're looking for QA for all shifts. TIA!
Yes, DSG (Dictation Service Group) uses DQS.
nm
Medical Dictation-Florida - sm
Does anyone have any information about this company? Good, bad, platform, etc.??? TIA.
Lucy
Need advice about Medical Dictation Inc
Has anyone had any experience with MDI???
Ah, yes! Those were the days! And dictation was clearer, too! nm
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Getting paid by the minute of dictation -
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Response to $$ by minute dictation
You need to figure what you want to make an hour.
$15.00 or $20.00 or $30.00?
How many minutes can you type in an hour? 10, 15, 20?
Divide that number into the minutes that you can type and that is what you need to charge.
EXAMPLE: If I want to make 30.00 an hour and I can type 15 minutes of dictation an hour then I need to charge 2.00 per minute of dictation.
Most of the time if you are IC and they want to pay by the dictated minute, going rate is usually 1.25 to 1.50 a dictated minute so if you can type 15 minutes of dictation an hour? If you charge 1.25 a minute you would make 18.75 an hour or at 1.50 a minute you would make 22.50 an hour. :)
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