Aria is not designed to have transcription
Posted By: Happy MT Robin on 2009-06-09
In Reply to: Aria Platform - anyone use this piece of junk? - GotTheTShirt
I used this garbage briefly when I worked in house for an oncology practice last year. The transcription manager spent $5k on Stedman's only to find that it wasn't compatible. She probably should have checked that out before she spent the money, huh? I worked there for four months typing every single character of every word. Fortunately we were paid hourly. Theoretically it is not compatible with Word, but we all had "normals" that we had created for the doctors that we would cut and paste into it, so I'm not sure where the incompatibility comes from. Maybe from the fact that the transcription manager wasn't that computer literate.
I had many of the same issues you do with the lag on the text. We would type and then literally have to wait a full minute for it to get onto the screen. One of the ways I found around that was to turn my computer off every night. IT told us to just log off and leave them on and when I did that I would get the lag. If I turned it off, no problems. I quite frankly didn't care what IT thought at that point.
The nice part about it is you can put some decent templates in - or whoever has access to that can. They can insert the vitals and lab work automatically if it's set up for it.
I looked at the Aria website when I was using the program and didn't see anything about transcription, so I think it's designed to truly be a point and click system with no transcription whatsoever. Some doctors are always going to want narrative reports, so a true point and click is never going to exist, imo. It's expensive, and I didn't think it was that great, at least from my viewpoint of using it. When I was at the clinic last year, they were supposedly one of the first ones to have it and they had spent some horrible amount of millions to get it.
There were ways to work around it so that we could be sort of productive - primarily with saving the normals for each individual doctor - and I don't know if they managed to get any kind of Expander or dictionary program that worked with it. The clinic I was at also didn't do their research on the sound files, which I don't think came with Aria. They had to get a separate voice recording system, and then the Transcription manager and her pseudo-assistant had to actually move the work over to each transcriptonist every day. It was horribly inefficient.
Good luck. It has a few good points, but the bad points far outweighed them from what I saw from the transcription end. I think from the practice management end it's a decent program. It was just designed by someone who had never worked with the medical records division before, imo.
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They've also changed to a "per dictated minute" rate of pay from 65 cpl w/spaces. It's a generous per-minute rate compared to most places I've worked, and they've stated they don't want anyone losing any money in the transition, but it would take a pretty steep increase in this rate to match what I was making previously.
I'm seriously considering changing jobs, although these guys have been wonderful to work with. Does anyone out there have any experience with this platform or any tips, websites, etc., that have information on utilizing this POS to its fullest? Hate to jump ship prematurely - I know what's out there and it ain't purty! 
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These keyboards are designed after the original IBM keyboards that
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Think it depends on what you've learned on & "typed" on as to your preference regarding touch, sound feedback, etc.
When my original IBM keyboard was going on the blitz(1995),I searched far & wide for a company to repair such and/or replace it. This company has repaired such - several times. This company does offer clones of the original IBM that are very comparable to the original. They also have other keyboards available made by their company, but I have no personal knowledge as to their touch, etc.
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