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What can anyone tell me about Digital Access Transcription as a company? I searched the Archives and came up with nothing. I have not gone to the "other site" yet. Just wondering in looking for different companies and what they have to offer pros and cons.

Okay, I'm working with MS Word on one account and have their toolbar and everything installed. If I take a part-time job also utilizing MS Word and they also require their own toolbar, etc., will that muck up the system or is it the norm to have more than one installed? I know it may sound silly, but I really don't know.

Does anyone know if ShortHand can be set up to insert superscripts and subscripts? I imported all of my Autocorrect entries from Word, but it wouldn't import the formatted text. For example, can ShortHand be set up to convert the "c" in A1c to subscript? I really appreciate any help on this!

Had to take my son yesterday for a CT of his right ischium, to check for osteomyelitis. I gave that info to the person on the phone when I made the appointment. Soooo - get to the imaging place, and get all the myriad forms to fill out; at the top, under 'Test Performed', was 'CT scan of the brain'. I went back up to the desk to question this of the secretary (who is a retired nurse!!), and she looked at me and actually said 'The ischium is in the brain'

'!!!!!!!!!! Told hubbie later, and he said I should have told her, not unless my head was up my ***!

I'm sure the techs would have caught it when they looked at the script from the doc, but still!!!!

that works well for transcription? I've been trying to research them and find Olympus has some, but pricey. The Sony's are less expensive, but they have proprietary software where you have to convert all your files to a format you can use, and I'm not sue I'd know how to do that. I just need a decent digital recorder for one doc to use and I'd like a memory card/stick so I can just stop in and swap out the cards to get the dictation. Does anyone know of one that doesn't cost hundreds? Or have a better suggestion for how to do just one doctor's dictation digitally? I don't need one with all the mailboxes/authors, etc., since it's only one doctor. Thank you!

When I tried to encrypt and send a file with WinZip, my computer automatically tried to send the email via my old dial-up instead of my current one. I've deleted the old dial-up installation, and the new one is the only one showing up in My Computer/Dial-Up Networking, but this computer still tries to send using the old dial-up. I tried downloading the free CenturionMail, and it does the same thing. I'm thinking there has to be someplace I need to update/edit, but I'm not sure where to look. Anyone out there know? I'm so close to getting this to work, and it means more transcription work for me now, which I really need ASAP.

I am visiting my son this week, and decided to help my granddaughter clean her "spotless" room. She is such a neat freak.

What a smart little girl. I went into her closet where she keeps her electronic equipment. Every single cord for each item was neatly folded and slipped into empty paper towel (aluminum foil, toilet paper) rolls and labeled. She had attached a small velcro square to the equipment and one to the paper roll. It was so neat.

would like to know everyone's opinion regarding the best company to work for from home. I keep seeing people say something good about a company and then turn around the next day and something bad is said, so I keep putting them on my list and then taking them off. Your opinions would be greatly appreciated.

We usually have everyone bring a dish of some sorts. Large family, probably about 30 plus. Set up 3 extra tables in the garage for smokers and cardplayers and have a great day stuffing ourselves.

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Any advice on a laptop for transcribing would be greatly appreciated, like what type and do you need any special equipment to go with it.

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BO's "stimulus" (StealFromUs is more like it!) will disseminate tons of taxpayer dollars so that doctors will go completely electronic in their recordkeeping (including transcription, not just billing), and the company of George Bush's first cousin, Jonathan Bush (CEO of Athenahealth), is cashing in. Of course, Bush is ecstatic about what Obama is doing (both parties answer to the same puppetmasters, after all, so at the end of the day Bush and Obama aren't too far apart when it comes to the big picture anyway).

So some of you who are so mesmerized with BO, please explain how gutting our profession will "create jobs."

This simultaneously destroys our livelihood while ensuring another transfer of wealth from the taxpayers to the elites/their cronies. So what else is new?!

Don't forget that Obama is Cheney's cousin, so they are all more "connected" than you think.

VIDEO ("Obama Turning Doctors Digital):

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=13295106&ch=4226720&src=news

Athenahealth's home page:

http://www.athenahealth.com/

Details:

http://www.athenahealth.com/our-services/athenaClinicals.php

I'm an independent contractor and have just lost an orthopaedic clinic account to EMR. Also, I've been sending out hundreds of letters for new accounts, and I'm hearing nothing back!

Could someone either (1) comfort me with "it's not true" news and there's more than enough clinic work out there to go around, or if you find that it is, indeed, drying up, write back and tell me of your experience.

Just went into my acct for a clinic in which I am an IC being paid 12 cpl in MS Word. I have not worked for a week. Today, I notice the margins are changed. Does this change what constitutes a line (isn't it 65 characters per line)??? I go into their system and type on their MS Word via HSI.

I have had this doc for a while now, but I am so slow with him. I noticed that I have to stop the dictation at least once every sentence, sometimes more, and it just took me ten minutes to do a 2:50 dictation.

He talkes very fast and quiet but other than that he is great. Although he talks fast, he is pretty clear and I rarely have to look things up with him, other than to CC at the end of the dictation which is almost every report.

I do not have this problem with any of my other docs, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? I have his favorite sayings in my expander, but just cannot seem to get faster at his reports. Thanks!

Can someone help me. I'm starting to get a lot of tapes in, and I want to start getting some help and outsource some of this, but I haven't the first clue on how to convert tapes to an FTP site. I've tried talking to computer whizzes, but they lose me after a couple of seconds. So I thought I would try this avenue ... have any MTs out there been able to take mini tapes or standard cassette tapes and convert them to an FTP site to be downloaded anywhere in the country for someone else to transcribe?? I do not know the first thing about it, and I would really appreciate any input.

I saw an ad on this site a few days ago, so I'm guessing they are still in business. My question is, how do I get in contact with them?? I have called the 800 number and that is no longer in service. I did a search on this board and called a 623 number, that is out of service. I have left an e-mail for their salesperson almost two weeks ago. I am interested in their services, but cannot seem to get any answers.

Has anybody used them, and if so did/do you like them? How is the tech support if you are actually able to contact someone and get started with them? What about the start-up costs?

I have recently taken a job as an IC, this is my first IC position and I was wondering if any of you wise folks could give me some advise regarding income taxes and such.

In the past I have always used TaxCut or TurboTax for my income taxes. Is there a similar product for the 'self employed' that is as helpful? Does anyone have any experience with any of these?

Also, MUST I pre-pay taxes and/or SSI quarterly? I ALWAYS get all my taxes I pay in back in a refund and my income is essentially the same as my previous employment.

Regarding the posts down the list about the docs who dictate run-on sentences or add bunches of periods, etc. I am wondering why they are not instructed to not include punctuation at all. Our company has us disregard what they say anyway (since it is usually way off), and it seems they are making it extra rough on themselves.

I have one who says comma practically every other word. It really threw me off at first, but now I hardly even hear it (so used to ignoring it). But think how much easier it would be for them to not even think about it. What works the best is when they just use their voice inflection to signal the end of one thought/subject and the beginning of another. Being someone without a whole lot of medical background, it gets confusing when they don't.

Did any of you watch the special the other night on identity theft? I think it was maybe on Dateline. If so, you heard them say the identity theft ring reaches far beyond the shores of the US. It involves many of the countries that are receiving outsourced transcription work.

The first thought that came to mind when watching that was our medical records. I often have dictation that gives me a SSN and DOB. I also often have dictation on a new patient giving me other details, such as where the individual works, how many children they have, etc. I always get their height, weight and race. With these details, the individuals being outsourced to have everything they need to supply a terrorist or identity theft ring information to enable them to pose as someone else. This is very frightening to me!

What do we do? How do we wake America up to what we're facing? Sure, we can write our elected officials, but you all know as well as I do that such correspondence falls upon deaf ears. Does anyone have any suggestions on where we go from here? At this point, it isn't only about losing our jobs, its about national security.

"The patient may have had a decrease in weight due to a decrease in appetite and weight loss."

Really! I never would have figured that weight loss would result in decrease in weight! How about that?!

I am currently using start/stop, but the voice files I get it will not let me speed them up. Dives me INSANE to listen to a sssssllllllllooooowwwwww dictator and not be able to speed them up.... actually would like to go whomp them up the side of the head

.. but since that is not an option...

Looks like Gear player you can buy just the software, but Bytescribe you have to pay another 50 bucks and get the foot pedal.. no option that I could find not to.

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