VR
Posted By: knitgranny MDIer on 2009-08-30
In Reply to: Full time - Full time
I have to put in a comment about VR. I work for MDI plus FT for a local hospital who does VR.
We were told exactly the same thing - VR increases your line count. I beg to differ. I am a producer doing straight typing. With VR, my overall productivity score went DOWN by 25% in one year. Now, where I work, we get paid hourly and we got to choose what doctor was VR, and if we didn't like him on VR, we took him off and then added another.
VR is not what they hipe it up to be. Too much editing which takes time, especially if you want quality work. I am sad to say though that my hospital has no clue about the correct way to type BOS Style. All 9 of us type differently. Quanity versus quality where I work.
Working for a service you need to know the BOS rules. I type across the board that way, thus, the reason for the decrease in my productivity. Plus, they want our backlog within 2 days. For, I would say, 75% of the time in the last 2 years we have been up to 2 weeks behind. Then we had to resort to straight typing in order to get caught up, only to get behind again with VR. Does this make any sense? Round and round in circles.
The speech engine for the VR does not pick up if - the doc speaks in his bedroom voice, too much noise in the background etc. When you know there should be more, you listen in the back-up mode and there could be up to 2 very important sentences that are totally left out of the report. Could be allergies, doses of medicine. You just don't know. But you have to be a seasoned MT to know, geez, something else has to be here. For newbies - wow, they would have not clue.
We use Dictaphone ExText/Word Client where I work.
I dislike VR but have to do it in order to keep the FT job with benefits.
Going with Transcend will not be possible for me as I cannot give specific times to work due to the FT job. I need something that is way more flexible. I don't think that would be possible at Transcend, no matter what they say. I wouldn't believe them anyway.
A little side note - I have a brother-in-law who is an OB/GYN working in Arizona. His hospital had VR and the docs complained about the quality of work and got rid of it. Maybe that hospital's service was offshoring and the docs/hospital had no clue.
Guess I will have more time now to knit socks to sell - maybe on E-BAY!!!! Ha!!!
This has just been my experience with VR.
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