powerscribe is horrible if you have to straight type on it. nm
Posted By: mtmame on 2009-09-16
In Reply to: That's not always true. I have been editing a Powerscribe account for 2 years. The work sm - RadPro
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I don't know of any VR - I straight type - nm
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clarification - oh no I can't type 8 hours straight
with that average... Actually I can't even type 4 hours straight with that! I wear down after a couple of hours. So what I do is I will type and really tear it up for a couple hours straight and take a nice break, do it again for another couple hours, take another break. Fortunately (at least until December 31 anyway...AKA the foreseeable future lol-inside MDI joke) I can do this because of my 24-hour window. I'm going to have to come up with a new game plan as to how I do my work once I have to stick to a set 8-hour schedule.
That should be TURF - so p.o.'d I couldn't type straight.
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Horrible, horrible, horrible place. Unlike the other poster
I actually worked there. Sound quality is horrendous. The account I had was the worst ESL I've ever had and I do 85% ESL so I have no problems doing ESL. Frequent management turnover. When I was doing QA the work was so bad that I pretty much had to redo every report. I hear about how well they pay, but they don't pay that well and certainly not enough to compensate for all the other stuff.
Worked there 2 years ago..horrible, horrible, horrible.
Would totally avoid them at all costs.
PowerScribe
PowerScribe is getting better and better for radiology. Many doctors self-edit which means they no longer need transcriptionists and/or editors. I was able to reduce my department from 30 to 10 FTEs within two years. I personally think it is easier to transcribe than edit. I guess I am just an old dog that cannot learn new tricks. My mind tends to drift when editing. PowerScribe does miss a lot of the small words such as an,and, if, a, to etc. You will find yourself reading the report for content instead of accuracy, and you will miss a lot of little details. On the upside, my turnaround time has improved dramatically.
Powerscribe
I've never used Powerscribe before, but noticed your comment about staying away from Powerscribe. What is the downside to it, if you don't mind discussing? Is it editing and transcribing, or just editing? Also, can you not rack up lines as easily as with other platforms?
Powerscribe
Our hospital got suckered into Powerscribe. VR is horrible. Radiologists wont work with it. Editing is a nightmare and our work has now doubled. Job security I guess??
SoftScript is the worst - horrible accounts, horrible management, don't go there! nm
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horrible, horrible contact person! Worst experience ever. SM
Turned it down because of the arrogance and attitude.
That was not long ago. Ads run every 2 - 3 months.
Does anyone have info on Powerscribe?
Does anyone have info on Powerscribe VR (i.e. editors)? How accurate is it?
Did any of you work on Powerscribe
They discussed that account with me and I know nothing about it other than some other post saying to avoid it.
Powerscribe, I hate it
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Anybody have any experience using Powerscribe for Radiology?
Wondering what the platform is like to work on.
Horrible accounts, horrible sound quality, etc
The only time SoftScript would not be wonderful is if you aren't doing your job. They are an extremely professional company. Sounds like someone may not have lived up to their standards.
Horrible, horrible place. Lots in the archives.
They are not promoting it; one account has it, that's all except a few radiology Powerscribe acco
I know they do not like it!
There are few account for editing Powerscribe. Not for medical records or for most radiology sm
accounts. There are few accounts that ditched VR, which is nice. I think that is going to help set Keystrokes apart; being open to the idea of it but not pushing it.
That's not always true. I have been editing a Powerscribe account for 2 years. The work sm
has actually steadily increased due to fewer and fewer radiologists self-editing their own work.
I know of at least 4 other Powerscribe accounts at Keystrokes that are also increasing in volume for the same reason.
I am sorry that the account you were on with Webmedx went to total self-edit. I know that Keystrokes had a few that did that too, just not all of them.
Horrible company, horrible dictators, ESL
at its absolute worst, sound quality horrible. The MTs I did QA for were horrendous. They made up words, obviously didn't use a spellchecker, couldn't get the hang of something as simple as copying and pasting Preop diagnoses to postop diagnoses and would type same again and again. QA manager would send out updates for new drugs, equipment and have things misspelled, frequently got e-mails that evidently were sent because someone wanted to feel important, absolutely no useful information, management problems, lots and lots of turnover, including management. The CEO has no clue about transcription and is in it for the money. After talking with him you feel like you need a shower.
Horrible platform. Horrible communication.
Horrible people who say one thing and then when you do what they say, they get mad and act ugly.
Enough of a bone?
Webmedx watches every min you type or don't type.
I personally didn't like logging off to go to the bathroom or get a drink or whatever. Drove me nuts. They were too regimented for me. Not sure if you are aware they do that. Part of working at home is the flexibility and they just weren't. Good Luck
I can't believe how horrible this all is.
I never thought it was decent of MQ to prevent you from seeing your line count after each and every chart like all other programs and companies I've worked for. I guess this explains it! - it really makes me sick at heart to think they are that criminal, that they are deliberately cheating us. All those cheery notes from our supervisors - thanks a lot guys for helping the company pick our pockets and lower the standards for the entire industry. Before you know it every national will be doing the same thing and we will never be paid fairly by any of them! Whatever happened to fair labor practices anyway? Are all big businesses staffed with nothing but unpricipled dirty greedy backstabbing cheats?
Sorry for going off but man, thinking of all I've sacrificed over the years and the extra above-the-norm effort I've put in to keep my line counts high and accounts within TAT - and for what? To find this out is like a real sock in the kisser.
QA is horrible
They WILL nitpick you to death. I have over 20 years experience and got an 88 on my QA and it was COMMAS....some places they took them out, some they put in. There is ONE person who has final QA say and even the team leader I had would warn about how ridiculous it is. The QA varies from account to account as well. They say they go by AAMT but they don't. The old DOS platform sucks big time. You get 40 pounds of books to look through with hundreds of pages of doctors to go through. If you take the time to find something in the manual, you lose lines and you lose money. If you don't take the time to look and put a blank, they take of a percentage for that. There isn't even a way to look for a doctor when you are in the text typing!! The spellcheck leaves a lot to be desired.
Expect to be given 3 accounts at once and have to switch back and forth frequently between them and of course memorize all the QA differences between them. You will find that the QA booklet they give has gross errors in it, and even if you document the errors, such as a medication spelling, they say they "do it their way." Expect loads of ESLs and of course you get dinged for blanks for those as well, no matter how difficult the dictator is. I have never ever seen a company work so hard at taking money from you like they do. They swear they pay hourly...well good luck. Out of 8 people I knew from training, 7 quit.
Horrible, Horrible, Horrible
accounts, support, managment etc.
Horrible pay!!
They offered me 6 cpl for acute care and 7 cpl for clinic work!! Of course, I refused.
They were horrible, not there. S/l I'm as bad as they are.
horrible horrible
honestly, it was one of the most awful experiences of my career. Details aren't even needed .. just stay away. Mean supervisors, stupid old DOS and dial up work. Backstabbing and that's just the beginning. DON'T DO IT .. there are better companies out there.
Horrible ESL
So if you don't LOVE ESL, you might want to rethink. The company itself was a great one but the accounts were horrid.
a bit low?........that's horrible pay!
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horrible
horrible horrible horrible!!! Stay far far away!!! Nasty management attitude!
That's horrible....
Wow...I was offered a job there a few months back, but I ended up turning them down for another company. Looks like I made the right decision! I also live about 2 hours away from where my family gets together every Thanksgiving, so there is no way I would work there if they are that inflexible with major holidays! That's awful!
They are right! it is HORRIBLE!
Even before I left last winter, the platform was having a lot of technical problems. I was constantly having the platform come up with random errors, freeze up, and it wouldn't save my report like it was supposed to. One time I lost a 5 page psych evaluation report and had to start from scratch. When I called tech support, they didn't give me the time of day and just said, Oh well, guess you'll just have to start over. I wouldn't recommend this company to my worst enemy! You will have zero job security! I'm glad I decided to get out when I did!
HORRIBLE! RUN AWAY!
I worked for Cymed for a year, which was bought out by SPi a little over a year ago. SPi treats their MTs HORRIBLY! No, they do not pay for spaces, and they were always screwing up on my paychecks, and I was never able to get a hold of anyone, either by phone or e-mail, to correct them. The managers, from my experience, were by very, very rude and unhelpful, and the QA was very inconsistent. I finally quit back in February and went to another company, a smaller one that does not outsource at all, and I am sooooo much happier! SPI was one of the worst companies I have ever worked for. In fact, they were in jeopardy of losing many big hospital accounts right before I left due to poor quality and TAT issues, including the 2 accounts that I worked on, and I heard that a few months after I left, they did actually lose several accounts, heavily outsourced a lot of other accounts, and had a lot of lay offs of MTs and QA staff. This is one company that you should avoid like the plague!
Ugh! Horrible!
This is a Phillipine company. They are DEFINITELY a company to avoid. I used to work for CyMed, which was brought out by SPI a little over a year ago. As soon as SPI took over, tons of MTs left, including me. There is just way too much wrong with this company to list them all here. Check the archives.
HORRIBLE!
It would take way too long to list all of the reasons why they are so horrible. I would run as fast as possible from this company!
Also, having IM on all day was horrible. I got nothing done. nm
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Yep, a horrible day. Thank you!
I appreciate your note very much! I was having a horrible day. Life is so stressful and our industry so affected, we're all running stressed, scared of losing our jobs, and it's a horrible thing. Many have been taken advantage of and are fearful of that happening and guarded in employers. I understand all this. I am an MT and have been there. I lost two MTs last weekend, one because she was going through a divorce and another who had taken on more work than she could manage (3 accounts). People are human - it happens. I didn't want to ask my gals who work the other weekends or weekdays to have to work more than they normally do because I don't want to burn them out. I'm a small service - eight MTs. I try to run things without MTs dumping on one another, taking advantage, flaking out, watching out for their jobs being protected - because if quality or TAT fails, their jobs are in jeopardy and it's not fair to those busting their butts. I've had some MTs who got fired because they flaked off or did poor work post negative comments and there's nothing I can do about that. They were upset and venting. I would be careful on the internet and I would check references. I got stung for $4K at Charter and it's horrible. I would talk with folks who work for them - not believe the ones they fired - to get a feel for them. I feel a commitment to protect the jobs of my gals and treat them well - if I let things deteriorate, I place them at risk, something I can't do.
On the 45 day payment, yes, I get paid 30 days from time work's done. In the info I sent, I said that if this were a hardship, I could try to pay and absorb this to help during this first pay period. After that it's every other week and it depends when someone starts but if they start at the beginning of a pay period, the wait could be that long. I want to be honest and upfront with folks. No surprises with your income. Most of the gals who work weekends have other jobs and this is supplemental - some it's a problem for - some it's not - just depends. I do what I can to help because I understand when you need to survive!
Lastly, yes I have an embroidery business. Because I've found the psych transcription to be heavy after 20 years, I like to maintain balance by doing happy creative things - quilting, sewing, crafting....I create machine embroidery designs & sell them online. I had to use that webspace because I don't have webspace for PsychTrans.
I'm a small stable business. I don't advertise. All of my clients have been by referral and word of mouth. I prefer stable over alot of turnover...both in MTs and clients. Better for everyone.
So there you have it - who I am and what's what. I appreciate the hard work that all of you do, like me. We've been hit hard over the past decade and I know the sacrifice you're all taking. I wish you all every  success!
Why would they? It's horrible here now SM
with more and more of our work being VR. I'm glad I didn't say I only wanted to straight type because if I did, I'd probably have no work.
Some are okay, some are beyond horrible. Even
with samples I don't know what they are saying.
How HORRIBLE!! n/m
Let me get this straight
I would guess this relates to the post about changing jobs on people without notice. Interesting to me that Heartland had a pitiful reputation here and they at least gave people some notice. I don't think I will be calling Medware. I can't afford for a company to take my job away in less than a week.
Ha! S/B look them straight in the EYE when getting
lied to. I am a good judge of people face-to-face, but I really feel the lying recruiters or HR dept or whomever get away with it a lot easier cause we are not face-to-face. Might make it less painful for them to live with themselves as well. They don't have to see the hurt and horror they cause in our lives. Mind you - I can handle any and all ESLs, etc, and any work type, but its the misrepresentation that burns me. Tell me upfront the garbage I'll be transcribing, and then show me that garbage during my early days - don't lie and deceive me.
Let me see if I got this straight --
1. The recruiter hired you and knew that you hadn't done acute care in a while.
2. The recruiter told you that the account manager would be made aware of this and take the time to train you on acute care.
3. The account manager then rips you a new one and basically fires you.
4. Now, the same recruiter wants you to call this account manager and explain it to her.
Shouldn't the recruiter have done #4 herself and had the account manager call you to apologize? Sorry, but I gotta say forget this company. Take the 4-hour loss on the training as a lesson learned and move on.
I get 6.5 for SR and 10 for straight, but that is not what
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GETTING IT STRAIGHT
I finally got the straight scoop on this. My friend said that the recruiter interviewed her initially, followed a few days later, after testing, by a supervisor. She said that both of them were very formal and rather abrupt, not very personable. My friend asked the second caller/supervisor about the situation with the supervisor with the bad behavior causing MTs to quit, which was posted a week or so ago here at mtstars; apparently, this supervisor denied knowing anything about that. However, my friend said that it seemed to her that the supervisor on the phone call was likely the very one that had caused the trouble. My friend declined the position.
No, 4 for VR and 8 for straight but
the biggest part of my work now is VR. I love it myself, just do not want to work fulltime.
Get it straight.
Please be careful when you are in the interview.
Be prepared to lose your job if you are identified and your picture is taken. Those who work at the Q must remember Linda Perdue. Whistle blowers generally do not fare well and this is something you have to deal with before you do the interview. While this is information that the public needs and deserves to know you are placing yourself in harm's way job wise. Write the body of your piece yourself and tell the reporter that you want to see her final copy before it goes to print. Do not sign anything to hold them harmless. Be as generic as you can be .. national companies do not want negative publicity .. remember Brokovitch .. be smart and listen to every word they say to you carefully before you answer and ask them to repeat so that you know what is going on. Maybe you can tape the interview. Good luck to you.
Let me get this straight...
Because the OP randomly, out of the blue, posted for we 'TT cheerleaders' to LEAVE THIS BOARD AND GO WHERE WE BELONGED, that wasn't antagonistic and bullying, in your esteemed opinion? Taking it upon herself to instruct other posters to go elsewhere because we have a different opinion than that which SHE holds? OMG, lololololol!!!
Talk about hilarious...No wonder people like you are so resistive to learning anything new. You like to set your own rules as you go along and obviously do not play well with others.
As other posters below have said, if you're going to bully other posters around who disagree with you by calling them liars or accusing them of being management in disguise, and attempt to trash-talk TT for moving forward with VR, then good riddance to the lot of you.
But no other poster is going to tell ME to go somewhere else because I disagree with her. I don't believe anyone died and left her in charge. Those of you whining may outnumber those of us supporting TT, but that does NOT mean you are the ones in charge. That is the job of the MTStars Moderator, not some random siveling poster.
Let me get this straight. You are an MT SM
experienced with this account and you are on probation for 3 months? You help train the other MTs, give samples, etc., and you are on probation? Should be the other way around.
It seems even with straight
you are having your problems with the brain fog.
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