Easy to use! You can see old reports & copy to make templates from them, look up doc/Pt

• I would like some information about the ExText platform, good or bad. Thank you. nm - Kim
  • Good. I Don't Like the Expander, though - Amanda
    • Re: expanding with punctuation, more info inside - Jazz
    • I use ShortHand with my ExText. Works great! nm - passing thru
  • Easy to use! You can see old reports & copy to make templates from them, look up doc/Pt - names, easy to send copies, love it! nm

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for the MT's who should have been transcribing those reports, what do you expect?  QALady, you seem to be another QA person who puts herself on a pedestal !  I would sugget you get out of QA and transcribe if you hate your job that much !

The reason so many people think it is such a glamorous job is because those of us who have been doing it for years make it look so easy.  We can sit in front of our computer (at home) and breeze along through the toughest ESL dictators without picking up a book.  Why wouldn't everything thing they could do this.

Reality will show your friend that there is a lot more to being an MT than just typing.  I think back to the days before internet when I had to use a book to look up every difficult or new word.  Very time consuming.  At least new MTs have internet resources.

Is it sensible to rebuild New Orleans below sea level?

EMR has many templates: ROS, HOPI, lab orders, Plan, health histories, immunizations, specific diseases, etc.  Each template has many fields with corresponding questions that can be checked off indicating a yes/no response or severity level.  Similar to filling out a survey by checking the boxes that apply. After completing these templates, the physician can click a button that automatically pulls the information that was entered in each of the templates, and generates a "document" in a determined format.  Thus, no reason for the physician to dictate a tape for someone to transcribe.

We implemented an EMR where I work and it did result in less transcription. 

Yeah really... we get screwed over enough, let us keep SOME things that work to our advantage.

I have a question about during a physical exam portion, I know what it means to "flush left, sub headings all caps," but what is the other instance of "stacked form". thanks. 

Really need your thoughts. One of my doctors has about 50 templates/shells. When doing combined procedures he will tell me to just combine the 2 or 3  or 4 shells he has for the individual procedures without taking out whatever is redundant or conflicting. I have to do that. Several of these individual op reports are 3 pages long, so can end up with a 6-page final report.

On his follow-up notes, he will use a shell and then say "add this to the physical exam" but he does not say what to take out of the standard note.

Many of his op notes have numerous variables. He oftentimes does not tell me which to use and/or which to delete.

For "risks" he will dictate some and then say "and add whatever Dr. X uses."

I am requesting a meeting with him and with the office administrator, but would like to know what you think and what you would do.

Thank you

Okay, I have a new question.  I'm trying to create a form or template that I can insert information on. How do I create the form with lines so that I am able to insert information on these lines?  Is this possible?

Hi,

MPLite templates are Word documents in the TransMP Formats folder whose filename is used to differentiate which templates belong to which clients. All the templates you have for a particular client will show in the Document Information screen.

1. Start with a blank MS Word screen, and create the template you need there. Use the codewords (eg Last? First? MR? DOB? etc) to tell MPLite where you need this information put. Make sure each contains the ? at the end of the codword, and you'll find a complete list of available codewords in the help file in the chapter Formatting Templates. You can use headers / footers and any other formatting features in your templates.

2. Give this template a name in the pattern FacilityInitials_DescriptivePhrase.RTF. You have to save them as RICH TEXT FORMAT in the Save box, and save them INTO the TransMP  Formats folder. The Facility Initials must match what you entered for that when you registered the facility. Keep the descriptive phrase relatively short, eg, CON, FU, XRAY, HP, DC. If this is a template for a hospital or clinic, you can has as many templates for a facility as you like and can differentiate Dr. John Smith's Consultation by use the descriptive phrase CONjs, and Robert Youngs as CONry or CONyoung. (Note it is an underscore _ and not a dash used in the template filename.)

The list of available templates is refreshed when you start a session. So if you create a new template while in a session, cancel the session, and then reset it so the template list is refreshed.

If you have other questions about the templates, please ask.

Best wishes,

Vann Joe Turner