Well I emailed the person who created it

• Transtech - worriedmt
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Yes, work has been slow.  What accounts were you experiencing that with?  I find that I am being switched around quite a bit and that gets old.

I don't have insurance yet but that there are 9 plans to choose from.  Maybe someone else from TT can answer this question.  The platform is Dictaphone Extext, which is the best platform in my opinion because you have instant access to archived reports and don't have to beg for samples.  The pay scale is good with line incentives - the more you type the more you make, plus they have incentives for evenings and weekends.  Holidays are paid at 1.5 and you rotate Thanksgiving and Christmas if you are scheduled to work on them.  The PTO accrual is great, and we get paid every 2 weeks on a Monday - 26 paydays per year instead of 24.

Can you give me more information on TransTech.  Like, how much does the
insurance cost for an individual and a spouse?  How is their platform?  How is the pay scale?  PTO accrual, etc?

thanks

the same people who ran Omnimed after they sold to Dictaphone.  They waited out their noncompete and started this one.  Sounds very similar to Omnimed from the posts I read. 

I used to work at Omnimed and I think that was the lowest pay I ever received from a transcription company in my whole career.

The MT usually does not have access to these things.  In my day, we had to put in a request and hope to heck they got it right.  Plus, we had to wait a while.  I think they're called dictionaries (templates) believe it or not.  It has been about a year, and I don't miss that system at all.  Clunky, slow, and lost many of reports due to it going down in the middle of typing.  Grrrr.....

own.  The header/demographics is manually entered, though I have a template that has all the required information and I just fill in the blanks.  I DO get paid for that information. 

I am aware of Webmedx acquiring new accounts.  And I will attend the meeting so I can hear how Webmedx cares about its employees because they make it what it is.  Any my quality is what I say, and I have never missed getting my linecount until recently when there is no work available to do to meet my linecount.  I have worked endless hours, overtime, stat calls on unscheduled time.  I have contacted my STM and discussed this on several occasions.

I am not posting unreal fears.  These are realities.  The rumor mill has been created by Webmedx and their lack of communication with their employees. 

With all the times I've had residents, PAs, or NPs dictate sentences, erase them, start again, erase them, and then end up saying go back to where I said [fill in the blank] and put [such and such] instead, I can't see a machine being able to correctly interpret all that.  If they work with the document being created in front of them, they can fix all this stuff as they go along. Just highlight the old stuff they want out and replace it with the new stuff they really wanted.

I can't see the computers picking up medication errors, dosage errors, incorrect dates, new operative equipment, being able to correctly flag right/left, or correct spelling of cc'd physicians' names. Most likely there is another program running with it that would do a pop screen for amoxicillin 5000 mg tid to question it. Physician names are probably in a pop up screen too. Of course, it's not going to correct everything but when the COX-2 inhibitors were taken off the market do you think a human could go through all 5,785 charts to find the people who had been prescribed Celebrex to call them to tell them to stop taking it? Of course not.  It's not a matter of IF MT's will be replaced, it's already happening.

DSG and pay and other questions - your earthlink spam bounced it back.

nm