Am I the only one that hates Meditech?? NM

• Am I the only one that hates Meditech?? NM - Interested
  • Meditech - so far hate it. - HappyMT
  • Export from Meditech to Word and back again? - grnilady
    • Just asked my supervisor this ?...... - NOLA
    • Meditech - tylermt
  • I've said it before and I'll say it again! - Meditech is not MT friendly at all.
  • I loved Meditech! - DOS throwback
  • Heck no! I still have Meditech flashbacks! - Hayseed
    • MediTech - leda
      • What I hate about Meditech... - grnilady
        • Hate Meditech also..... - NOLA

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why she doesn't get off the darn board and go find something that is more to her liking.  She claims that the equivalent of 15 to 18 cpl doing MT is "entry level" pay at any other job.  Well, what's stopping her from going out and getting one of those jobs since MT doesn't suit her?

This is an MT board and I don't think someone needs to be here bashing MT.  I and several others have stated that we make $35, $40+ an hour doing MT.  I feel fortunate to make the money I do.  In fact sometimes I get tired of doing MT and I would LIKE to do something else, but I couldn't make this kind of money doing anything else, so I'm in it for the long haul.  I started out at the bottom not making much and my hard work has paid off and now I am reaping the benefits.  'Shroom needs to quit complaining and get one of the jobs she mentions that pay so much better than MT, or make herself a better MT so she can make more money. 

and he is NOT alone in this, you could suggest his coming up with normals for stuff he says all the time and then dictate around those.  This is a joint effort with the physician because he will have to sign them and have what he wants in them.  You don't negotiate a lower fee for this either, btw, since it takes time to drop them in and to come up with them in the first place. 

If he has some F/Us for say a total knee, then he could have a total knee note like:  Pt is ____ days postop. I removed the staples from the ____ knee.  Pt is to return in ____ weeks' time for followup. 

WIth the above, you would drop in the canned text and he could dictate Ms. Josy Blow is 10 days out, had staples, return in 2.  Or just 10, right, 2 on his end.  I have normals provided by the company I work for, then I have many of my own.  Some are a full note because they rarely vary.  Some are parts of notes.  Some are just shells with headers.  ANYTHING not to have to type it all! While you have no problems typing them for him, he doesn't like to dictate so yes, you can help him solve his problem AND cut down your work and worry.

I hate Pampered Chef parties and all those that I get invited to where it is really about me paying for junk.

Who else hates these things?

Has anyone ever used a word Expander with Meditech? I understand that there are several different versions of this program and we use it for Radiology. We have V. 3.25.  I was specifically thinking about ShortKeys?  Any input would be appreciated.

Hello ladies.  Can any of you give me referral for the name of a good medical transcription service company to work for?  I've been with Spheris for almost 3 years and am looking.  I've been requesting to change from an intimidating and threatening supervisor for months, and it hasn't happened.  MANY PEOPLE are leaving Spheris.  I'm just wondering -- can anyone give me the name of a NICE COMPANY to work for??

Thank you very much.  Have a nice day. 

I work for a hospital and I am forced to use Meditech.  There is nothing to help a Transcriptionist except for autocorrect.  The F11 key is diabled as well as macros.  Any one else experience this problem, and how did you get around it. 

Going crazy without my tools.  I can't stand not being able to F11 to my next stop, let alone make templates, etc.  Autocorrect on this computer is terrible as well.  It will only take words in a line, not a paragraph, for example.  Sheesh..  Any advice???

Companies that have it always seem to want people who are already trained on it.  Is it hard to learn if you have learned many different softwares?

Does anyone know of a website that you can go to and download the Meditech program?  There was a site I went to before, but I cant find it now and need to download Meditech.  Thanx for any help.

T

I remember someone giving instructions on formatting in Meditech, something to do with the F8 key.  Could you please post that information again, I meant to print those instructions out.  Thanks.

When I worked in Meditech, we were told that we were getting paid by the 65-character line even though the Meditech line was 75 characters long.  I used to paste my reports into Word and do a character count and divide by 65, it never worked out.  After many tests, I realized that we were getting paid by the gross line.  Try counting it that way and see if it matches when you get your line counts.  (On that job, the gross lines paid better as it turned out). 

Also, other "tests" I did revealed that the originator of the report was the only who got credit.  Any additions I ever made to someone else's report did not add to my line count.  That part stunk. 

Hope this helps!

could only be accessed via a dial-up modem...and I have high-speed so I was kinda tweeked about paying for high-speed connection yet still having to use that archaic system.  Maybe it's different now, I dunno.  Thankfully I was able to drop that work like a hot potato due to my connection constantly dumping and losing all my work and I don't have to think about it any more.  God I hated that Meditech.  I've read about people having access to different versions of it though and having much better luck than I did.

Good luck with it though. 

When I worked on Meditech, you could not change the original transcriptionist.  If I added or corrected something in a report, I physically typed my initials and date at bottom of report.  There is an option to "delete report" to just start over if that option has been given to you.

for radiology transcription?  Am considering applying for a position using it but do not know a thing about it.  I am currently using Word-based programs and before that have used WP5.1. 

Does it have a built in spellchecker?  Can I use my ShortCut for Windows word Expander program?

Is it cumbersome, hard to learn, take a long time to get *up to speed*???

Any info would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Have used Meditech for 8 years.  I tried IT with Workstation 4 (NUE) and it worked. 

Spellchecker is not accurate for more than 1 letter off and it does not know if word should be capped or not.  It will not pick up 2 letter word errors such as NO, fo, si, etc.  There is no grammer check.

Headers are put in automatically (if facility has it set that way), put in Rad's name, pt. name, chose x-ray from list, type date and body.  F7 to beginning of report, Shift+F1 for Spellcheck, proof, F12 to file.  F10 deletes your line from cursor location on.  Need to be at beginning of line and use F3 to join lines or it will move the text to whereever the cursor is located throughout the rest of the document, major PITA!

There are other screens for mammo codes, report codes (normal, negative, see report, unremarkable, etc.) but may vary in setup from facility to facility.

Good luck!

It very nearly made me quit transcription.  Terrible, terrible, awful piece of you-know-what.

I agree 100% - hate Meditech and going broke using it!

I don't exactly understand your question.  You can type the report right where you would put the cursor to paste it.  Can you be more specific about what you need?  ShortHand does work with Meditech, by the way.

Not sure if we use the same version, but when I go into Meditech I enter 13 to take me to Process Reports. Do you see anything like that? Spellcheck is shift F9 I believe. Just a caveat, however, the spellcheck in Meditech is vitually worthless!

I have the opposite dilemna, I am much more comfortable with the Word-based platform  and miss my Stedman's spellchecker, but there is no way to copy and paste from Word to Meditech

I use Instantext with Meditech. I do know it needs to be "linked" in order to work. Not sure if ShortHand works the same way?

Good luck!

can anyone tell me what are the function keys for Meditech.  I hit F6 and lost a report.  My lead Transcriptionist only "knows" the F keys we use, not any of the others. Shift F6 moves up a line, but what if just plain F6?  Thanks

I do work this platform, have been for years and I do love it.  Once you get used to it, it is very easy to work with.  But, you cannot use outside spell check and unfortunately, the spell check with it is not that great.   But, I use the stedman with my MS Word keeping it flat lined while I work..

The up side is that you are only paid per mean line, not per character... believe me - big plus. 

If you need help, email me ..

email is  marceiaa@yahoo.com