Using mouse versus key controls
Posted By: with ASR on 2009-07-06
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From discussion below with WMXers using ASR, I decided I didn't have anything to lose trying the mouse since using key controls isn't upping my speed. Much to my very pleasant surprise, I averaged 50 lph more than my usual (almost 500 extra lines today). It was hard to use it at first, but so much easier to navigate through the reports. I didn't use it for highlighting, just navigation to what needed correcting. Hopefully the numbers will go up as I become more proficient with the mouse. I'm glad I tried it.
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I have and it worked great for me using mouse controls. No prob.
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MDI versus MedScribe versus SoftScript versus Transsolutions versus TransHealth. SM
I'm getting ready to start applying and these are the companies that I'm looking at. So give me the low-down. Good, bad, India?
Here are my criteria:
9 cpl or better
Does NOT send work to India
Good accounts with at least 50/50 of ESL versus American dictators
Consistent work flow - no downtime or time spent waiting for work
Upper management should be professional, positive, and encouraging.
Pay for lines WITH spaces.
Is there such a job out there or am I just dreaming? If there are other companies other than the ones I listed that would fit the bill, please feel free to let me know. I tested with TransHealth and I felt like I tanked. It was a hard test and I had to use the mouse to stop and start the dictation as it was online test and you couldn't download the voice files. So that made it a lot more difficult. One of the dictators was cutting himself off through the report and I had to leave some blanks. I'm very frustrated with this whole process of looking and testing. Are all the tests like that? Or are there companies that allow you download the test files and transcribe them using your pedal and software? Ugh! I am just so frustrated and discouraged.
Thanks for any helpf.
There should be tighter controls on this
than a large company just letting a lead MT dole out the good stuff to their buddies -- yeh people are human, they do it.
Who do you think controls our government?
this is not a personal attack but I never cease to be amazed at how few Americans CONNECT THE DOTS (all the way anyway)
The corporations call the shots with YOUR Congress/government primarily because AMERICANS are so easily pacified and distracted by the toys these corporations made for that exact purpose.
God-forbid Americans paid (payed?) any real attention to what the government does with THEIR tax dollar and in THEIR good names...
if you think the CORPORATE media is going to educate you on this, well ive got some swamp land you might be interested in...
Yeah, and Prozac controls your lunacy! I don't know where
you get this idiotic nonsense, but Dictaphone controls nothing of TransTech. You are obviously just another bitter old hag who has gone off your meds.
Dictaphone controls Transtech workload, for the most part.
If you search, you will find plenty of recent info on Transtech.
Do NOT use your mouse, and you can do this 2!
Seriously..scan ahead..format, etc. You can do it. It just takes practice.
Said it before, here again, I use my mouse with VR
and have never used the hot keys and I get well over 300 lph, sometimes as much as 500, 600 and the like. I can scan ahead but you do not have to put the mouse down in order to do well.
With VR always use the mouse
I told someone else on here that have never used the hot keys. Been doing this tooooo long to change now and my speed is as fast as the audio will take me. Glad you tried the mouse.
Mouse and VR
You've got a good attitude! Using shortcut keys and avoiding the mouse is a big part of productivity with VR. In editing, the longer your hand(s) is away from the keyboard the less productive you'll be. I was a mouse fanatic too, but after I learned a few keyboard shortcuts I was hooked. It really does increase your line count. I'm still trying to master all the shortcuts with our program, and I'm pretty confident I'm 90% there. I'm sure you'll do fine with them. It really doesn't take long to get rid of the mouse fix. Good luck!
Avoid mouse if possible
If your software gives you the option of using keyboard commands instead of picking up your hands to use the mouse, use them. Avoid doing anything that takes your hands off the keyboard and your eyes off the screen if at all possible. But it can be helpful to write down your new shortcuts and tape the list to your monitor until you can remember them. If you have internet, make use of OneLook Dictionary. Many common medical phrases are in there as well as single-word entries. It might be quicker than using even a specialty book.
Just push tab instead of using mouse. NM
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To Minnie Mouse
Minnie, I am with MDI-MD. No, I am not nor have I ever been, management. I am just a lowly MD and have been one for decades. I appreciate this company because it pays me well, knows how to run a company and I love my accounts.
Could someone please explain to me how using the mouse
in VR works? If you have to edit something, you have to take your hand off the mouse and fix with keystrokes? I have seen this a lot people discussing the use of a mouse with VR, but I don't quite understand it. Please explain. Thank you kindly! And keep up the good work!
Me to, I sit there with 1 hand on the mouse and the other on the
keyboard, reading along. When a correction is necessary, I put the cursor in that spot and make the correction and read on.
I never use shortcuts and I cannot imagine that this would speed me up.
Correction to Minnie Mouse
Whoops, I meant to say lowly MT, not lowly MD. (That wouldn't be me, I hated science.) I was up nearly all night last night working. No work shortage here. Anyway, sorry I made an error in typing, hope the grammar/typing cops don't launch their grenades at me. :)
Have yet to turn loose of the mouse
On on end, makes no difference about using hot keys or not, most really good, very few errors to change but so long on the mouse, will just stay.
I use both a wireless mouse and keyboard
and love it! I've used both the Microsoft 7000 wireless keyboard and mouse as well as the Logitech wave wireless keyboard and have no problems with either one keeping up with fast keystrokes.
We? We?? You gotta mouse in your pocket?
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Was told starting VR HAD to use the mouse
I had never used the mouse before since starting this job in the 70s so shock city when told had to use. Ok, got to where I could use that and then outsourced to a company from the hospital where I was trained and then told NOT to use the mouse; however having said that I just continued on with the mouse. Does not slow me down at all, able to keep up with the work as fast as I can get the audio to go so all this yah-yah about using these keys, don’t know what all the hype is about. When people say you can work faster, not in my case.
I'm a skinny well-paid whiner and don't use a mouse.
nm
try holding cntr down and using mouse scroll.
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Keyboard. Using the mouse is too hard on my hands. nm
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Trying to see bright side - I am bad about using mouse - working very (sm)
hard today on starting to break the habit. I took the little class thing on increasing our skills w/o mouse and do try to use a little more but now I feel I had better get my fat butt in gear on it immediately. Hopefully this will help offset the losses I am going to encounter.
I figure I will put the mouse on the left hand side to start with so I will be more conscious of whenever I read for it. Old habits die so slowly. Shoot, this old girl took forever to quit reaching up to return the carriage on the old typewriters. (Am I giving my age away?)
I have about 7 more years until retirement and I do not want to train now for another profession, don't think that would be too profitable. I want to bend like a willow in the wind and adjust to whatever comes up with this profession until then. Trying to be positive. Will paste on a smile and work,work, work on quitting using that mouse.
it means you use the mouse to put the cursor where you want to make a correction
with keystrokes.
The other way is to use the shortcuts, a combination of keys.
It is much harder on the wrist to constanly use the mouse to jump around the report to edit, rather
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Do you follow along with the mouse? I follow allow with my right arrow, the cursor going over the
words...I mean what do you do with the mouse exactly? I know that is a weird question, but I am still not getting it...haha! It could be a difference in platforms for sure,because my mouse is completely worthless to me in VR. I used EXText.
MQ versus others
Neither do I......
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Take the R.N. course. I wish I had taken it at an earlier age. You will have a job that you can depend on with good salary. Don't make the same mistake I made.
Good luck.
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So true!!!
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MT with 3 years experience in acute care; ESLs not a problem; reliable, will work the schedule YOU need, will be on time and stay for entire shift(imagine that); no children to bring to doctor/football practice/exhusbands house/school play; actually does research, has an extensive library of research books, and does not just toss a job to Quality dept for them to finish; NEVER cherrypicks or skips jobs; will not poach, working outside my schedule trying to get extra lines to pay for Xmas/kids braces/second mortgage, taking work from others; does not mind working over/extra when needed; does not have a endless stream of mysterious health problems - in fact, has only called in sick once in 3 years; recognizes the Quality department's value and that they are an essential part of the job I do; does not whine about hard dictators/OPS/ESLs/short reports/long reports; have taken Anatomy and Physiology courses in addition to initial training and still taking continuing education courses; sitting for CMT next month; helpful and supportive of my TEAM (for those of you who do not know, that is my coworkers and my employer); does not have constant, vague-sounding internet/phone/electricity problems that prevent me from working.
Here's a thought (not for the original poster, but for those the shoe fits) - how about thinking about what you have to offer a company instead of what you can get out of them? What do you bring to the table? Selfishness? Laziness? A baby hanging off of your hip, a slew of pathetic excuses, and a victim's attitude? No wonder you are not happy anywhere...you get what you give.
I will not send out that resume, obviously. Why? Because those types of MTs are everywhere. I cannot hope to find a place where none of that exists, not with the pool MTSOs have to pull from. Plus, it is not professional. The reason I did it here was to illustrate a point. People do not always job hop with the hope of improving their situation, many do it for bonuses or to find a place where they get the most and can do the least.
Want change? The responsibility for change and growth within this industry lies with the individual MTs.
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1. Does anyone have experience working for Shriners' Children's Hospital inhouse in Norcross, GA? Many ESLs, how are working conditions, etc?
2. I've been recently sent home from my small office practice (didn't volunteer!) and changed from transcription/med records clerk employee to IC; lost benefits. I think a little further on I'll have to get another inhouse job--remains to be seen if I can afford to live on this reduced income. Does anyone have solutions regarding health insurance for self-employed, single people? In my state an individual BCBS premium for someone my age is $300.00/month w/$250.00 deductible. (Yikes!)
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