Go to frequently asked questions at bottom of site..sm
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In Reply to: A very important read !! - JAS
it will tell you how to spread the word with other locations to post the link.
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You should have asked questions when
taking the position. I used to take a list I prepared myself of questions to ask on my first day. It usually worked out fine.
I just asked a simple questions...thanks SO much for your help
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Mac she asked reasonable questions
For once can you ditch the negativity, try having a positive attitude and be a little gracious??
I asked some questions of the Transform recruiter before...sm
sending in resume. They didn't answer the questions and sent out a general prefabricated rah-rah message about making the right decision to see if we were both a good fit for each other, etc. In it, it asks you to download some program into your computer that will check out the specifics of your system and email them with the info so they'll know right away if your system is compatible with what they need. What the...!!! No way was I going to do that. And then it asks to you to do the 5 tests and the 6 voice files and submit it with your resume. I declined to do everything. Not my idea of how to do business.
So, bottom line is it is a fraudulent web site and viewing it may have exposed us to a virus?
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Average 3000-4000 minutes and no questions asked!
I have used the service for about four years. Like I said in my post above in the previous post, be sure to have a very good internet connection or expect to have problems. If you have a laggy internet, your phone will not respond either.
Check the Productivity web site or ask questions there. sm
Their web site is http://www.productivitytalk.com.
Good work. I like your site. right Opponents will Create Table without any questions: http://www.amc
I really appreciate what you're doing here. Very interesting site. Opponents will Stake unconditionally , Chair can Increase Plane Black, Industrious, Curious nothing comparative to Standard , Small Soldier is always International Boy Con Fetch Increase - that is all that Boy is capable of
The bottom line is doesnt matter what they pay if there is no work you make no money. Bottom line.
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I went to MQ web site where Frank is now answering questions. Looks like Frank
is running behind on his questions because they are last dated May 11. Maybe he is in Hawaii? 
Not this many, this frequently,
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I think the FREQUENTLY mentioned ones
if you'll check are the ones who are talked about on this board quite often. The good ones are only talked about infrequently, that's the only point I got out of this whole thing. Can anyone name 1 company that called them after a month and offered them ANY raise at all. I'm interested if anyone can. I only know from my own experience that I only get raises when asked and have only had 2 in almost 10 years and they weren't more than 1/2 cent, so I think the author of that is correct in their viewpoint.
I've been getting this frequently
I assume they've been getting a bunch of blanks lately (due to their slurring/mumbling/chopping off words in mid syllable) and assume we don't understand the particular words that were blanked, instead of listening to their blanks and realizing they were incomprehensible.
They offshore, frequently change their
pay scale so it s/l you are getting big bucks but are actually getting less, dictators difficult (at least on acute care), sound quality not so great. Lots of posts about how disorganized they are and many unhappy MTs. S/l there would be lots of work because many are leaving. Company used to be called Transcription Solutions (I think).
A few years ago, when I had 15 years' experience in acute care, they asked me to send a resume. I'm not sure how they got my info, but I did send resume. They were looking for at least 5 years' experience. The recruiter then told me I didn't have enough experience. I had not even tested. They contacted me because of my experience, so not sure what that was about.
Recently the MTSO contacted me, I tested, and aced the test. The MTSO was very anxious to hire me, but I wasn't interested after their offer and hearing the quality of the sound files. At that time they were not offshoring, but they are now. I was again offered a position to QA the offshore work, which I was told was "surprising good" - NOT.
I drink hot cider frequently and it doesn't keep me
awake. Apple juice is a stimulant, but stimulates the other end.
'and it certainly does not seem to be any of the companies who are mentioned frequently on these
boards.' This statement is not necessarily true. I know of a number of companies mentioned right here on this site that treat their employees/ICs quite well. I know because I maintain informed. I have friends who work for different services and they tell me of their experiences. The poster should have researched a little further before making that statement. That is that one posters opinion, but not the opinion of everyone.
I travel frequently and I have not found this to be a problem.
You can either search on-line or go to store like Office Depot and look at keyboard trays. They have them that will clip on. You can clip one to a table. Many times I've propped a pillow against a table and put the keyboard tray on the pillow. I've worked at a picnic table with a folded towel on the edge of the table. The height isn't the best and the towel kept the hard edge from pressing into my wrists. I've used a bed tray and put my laptop on top of that and placed the keyboard underneath.
I'd try a few things now before you go. I found that if I had to work I found a way to get the job done. I've even typed on the laptop keyboard with the laptop on my lap as we are going down the road.
You aren't alone. I am frequently mortified and embarrassed by commercials.
Pepto-Bismol's little song, Charmin, that Tampax commercial..ugh!
When I was a child I used to wonder what Preparation H was for because the advertisements never really said. I wish that was still the case!
I'll give it a go. Fortunately I don't have to punch in and out so getting up frequently won&
be a major issue and will probably be better for me in the long run anyway. My feet swell horribly and my rear hurts after about an hour and being more mobile will probably help those too.
I think people with higher IQs actually frequently feel insecure,
and people who razz them or put them down. It's not hard to get a complex about something that personal when people get down on you for something you can't help, and had nothing to do with creating. God-given gift. And then when people FLAME you for it, it hurts. And you go back into "turtle" mode and get a job as a Transcriptionist because machines don't bite.
Meditech questions and Cerner questions. Any input is appreciated. SM
I just recently went back to work in the office at a local hospital. We type in both Meditech and Cerner, depending on what you are typing, i.e. Medical Records reports versus Radiology. We are currently typing blindly in Meditech, meaning we do not have access to our line counts and must depend on management to give us our totals. In Cerner, we are able to run a line count report and print out a hard copy of our line counts at the end of the day.
We are finding that 800 lines in Cerner equals about 500 lines in Meditech. We are not paid per line nor do we have an incentive plan, but we have a new HIM Director who would like to institute an incentive plan and the administrator over our department has laid down the law and decreed that all transcriptionists not making minimum in the department will be written up. Problem is according to Meditech line totals that we have been given, that would be about half the department.
The transcription supervisor has taken our concerns to the new director who told the MT Supervisor to hold off on writing people and has taken home all the line counts from the last month and she is going over them with a fine tooth comb this weekend.
I am not a very trusting soul by nature, so I am doing a little research on my own. I've been in this business for about 15 years. I started out in a hospital and have worked for a few services at home and am now back in the hospital setting. So I know a few things about line count and I consider myself to be pretty well informed on trends and technology in the industry. I would like to walk into our next department meeting armed with as much knowledge as possible. So I have come up with some questions that I would like some fellow MTs to answer, give opinions, and maybe even direct me to websites or individuals who could give me a better understanding of Meditech and Cerner. Here are my questions:
- Is it possible for an MT to have access to her line count in Meditech or is strictly a management function? Any MTs that work in Meditech on this board, do you currently have access to your line counts and if so, how do you check them? Is it an option on the main menu after you log into Meditech?
- How is a line defined in Meditech? (i.e. 65 cpl, with spaces, without spaces)
- How is a line defined in Cerner?
- What abbreviation Expanders work with both Meditech and Cerner?
- Examples of incentive plans (if anyone would like to share that with me that would be great, if not I completely understand).
- Measuring productivity by minutes of dictation versus typed lines.
- What would be the minimum minutes required for an 8-hour day?
- How would one structure an incentive program based on minutes?
I was thinking of presenting the idea that we keep track of productivity using minutes instead of lines since there is such a discrepancy in Meditech. I also worry that if an incentive plan is put into place and we are still typing blind into Meditech, what's to keep management from shaving off a few lines here and there?
Feel free to email me or post here any responses. Either is fine. I really appreciate any input, comments, or just plain old supportive posts would be nice too! 
Several companies still train on site. In fact, we are piloting an on-site training sm
program, where everyone would come in to the Keystrokes office to train for 1 or 2 weeks. We have a large training room and feel that this may be a way to cover all aspects of an account, be right there to answer questions as they come up and have one-on-one contact.
It will be optional at this point and may not be more effective as remote training, but some people have expressed that they miss the training that you get when you start at a hospital.
We are trying to bridge that gap between working in-house somewhere and working at home.
It may seem out-dated in many ways, but sometimes going back to basics is a good step to take!
every question asked on here could be documented in some book. So? cant a question be asked?
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I have noticed sometimes I will try to get into a web site and that site will freeze up and I dont
know if I have too many screens opened up and minimized or what. I tried to open a website sent by email and froze up the email screen. Not sure what I am doing.
anywhere from $14 bottom to $25 sm
depending on the company. There are only a couple that pay as high as $25 and they never have openings. The norm is between $14-$18 to start depending on experience.
AI bottom 3
1. Ace
2. Bucky
3. Paris (she used to be a favorite of mine--what happened to her?)
Bottom 3
There's a website that supposedly calculates the phone calls, and they've actually be right quite a few times. (I wasn't sure if I could put the web site name here). According to them it's either Ace of Bucky that's leaving tonight. They have they by ranking.
Bottom line is the $.
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towards the bottom of this page
Under the question about who is quitting before Oct 1st.
The bottom line is
You always type it the way the client or your boss, company tells you to. And you are right, ibuprofen should not be capatalized unless at the beginning of the sentence because it is the generic name of a drug. As far as the BOS is concerned...there are many people that believe that book is the Bible as far as transcription is concerned. Again, it all boils down to the way your client or company wants the information transcribed. The BOS is not always followed to the letter.
bottom line
nobody likes to see the officials produce the outcome of the game.... Of course they have to call things that are obvious, but in a championship game you cannot call the "iffy" calls and potentialy change the outcome of the game. Just let the players PLAY!!
If you look at the bar on the bottom of your screen SM
while having your mouse pointer over the image in the email, you will notice it is a "snapshot" of an ebay page and the buttons that you would normally click on are part of the picture. Basically clicking anywhere on that image will take you to the site listed in the information bar at the bottom of your screen It is always an aol hometown site in the scam ones I get. I just got an ebay one recently where it had similar language- basically harassing me to pay for something. I think it is written that way to startle you into clicking right away to take care of "the problem".
If the Chinese government can go after dissidents through Yahoo, why can we not get these scam artists that set up their scam sites through AOL? I know, I know, that was just a rhetorical question.
Down at the bottom of the post it says....
In his pocket.
Just one of those days.
There are usually screws in the bottom
that you can open up, but I will warn you it can be a bear trying to put the thing back together because of positioning the screws deep in those holes. A magnetic screwdriver will save you a lot of aggravation. When I've opened it up, I've seen springs broken, springs out of place, the plastic holding the springs broken off. There will be a little nubbin of plastic in the lid side of the pedal that is the contact for the little silver internal PLAY button. If that is broken, fixing it may be impossible.
Bottom line -
It can make a WORLD of difference how you feel about this profession depending on the accounts you have. I used to have nice accounts and made tons of money because I also got paid a huge line amount. I now have really tough accounts and do not get paid as much as I previously did. I work on four different accounts with all different specifics, tons of backround noise, grunting ESLs, you name it. I also have nearly no contact with the company itself, unless they need something from me. They then have no problem with calling me up.
I don't think mounting to the bottom of
the drawer would work. If the bottom is sturdy enough to support the mounting you would be putting stress on the drawer and after a period of time something would give.
They do have trays that clip onto the desk and maybe you could find one long enough that you could open the drawer if you take the keyboard off the tray. They do have a tiered thing where you can set your monitor on top and the keyboard slides up underneath, but I don't know if it drops down or not and then you could just push it back up to get in your drawer.
Go to a website for Staples or Office Depot and look around for keyboard trays and see what they have.
Bottom line.......sm
You need to decide if this account is worth the aggravation. If it pays well and you make a decent wage monthly, then you need to put up with the aggravation.
If this account is not worth your time, then let it go.
If you are an IC, you can not get involved in the politics of the office or any other "petty" nonsense.
From the business owner perspective, only you can decide if the account is prosperous for you or not.
All this stuff about missing notes is aggravation and time consuming. Time is money. Is this account worth the headaches that come along with it.
Believe me, not all accounts are like this and some accounts are worse than this.
Again, the question becomes.."does this account make you enough money a month that you are happy with?"
Only you can answer that...Going back and forth with the office staff about missing notes is not the answer.
Ask yourself....Is it worth the effort to negotiate your contract under new terms, and if so, will you be happy with the new terms, and will these new terms eliminate your problem of missing notes?
As an observer.....the answer is probably "NO". But good money to me and good money to you may be different.
Good luck!
Bottom line is don't sub it out if
Look at the bottom of her msg to the left under...
"LINK/URL" - a good one - Thanks!
No - its at the bottom of the page
Just scroll down to where it says "MT Word Seeker." That's the link.
I would like to know bottom line here
I have been working in this field for 35 years and hope to continue. I work mostly VR, some straight. My pay is low, 4 VR and 8 straight. I only work part-time now because am at a point where that is sufficient. Can anyone tell me what their final pay is for a week's worth of work? If I worked full time it would be at least as much as I made in the 80s working inhouse. I know the pay is less than we made years ago but I figured out how much I needed to type to make X amount of dollars and that is what I do each day.
Top-to-bottom once and sign off. SM
Listening and reading TOGETHER. For dictators I'm familiar with, I speed up the dictation and also scan ahead of the dictation trying to make corrections out ahead of the dictation so I don't have to slow down for them, while at the same time listening to make sure I'm not missing anything. Requires being in the groove and takes full attention, but makes for a good line count.
Look down, bottom left
Look for "MT Word Search," bottom left of your screen. That is the link :)
You can view your lines at the bottom of the
screen after every report and you can also check your totals on the stats page that's right in the software. The software is a piece of cake to learn and use. My line count has gone up since using this system.
That's why I keep it open at the bottom of my screen
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Yep, for Wedmedx. Bottom line, if you are an MT
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Bottom line, in the loop. nm
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bottom line it's what client wants...sm
and all of her corrections, most of them were right on....sorry to say that to you.....but it's p.o. b.i.d. and 82-year-old and all that good stuff. If they want you to EXPAND GERD that's in your favor.....you get more characters which equates to more line counts. But bottom line, it is what the client wants and all the clients are different with different things they want......hence why you think there is no consistency. Best of luck!!! 
Right click on "start" at the bottom right of
your screen. Then right click on "explore." Look for "program files" and in that folder you should find the "Shorthand for Windows" folder. Simply right click on that folder and send it to your backup location. You can do this with anything you'd like to back up.
hth!
I vote for Ace to go home. My bottom 3 are:
Ace, Bucky, and Elliott. Elliott has a good voice but he is just so goofy I can't watch him when he sings. Bucky is okay but not great -- he looks better with his hair down. But Ace, well, he sounds average and I'm tired of him trying to look all "dreamy" all the time. Besides, he butchered the song! 
always remember -- the bottom line is it's about
Errors in transcribed reports can and do lead to adverse outcomes for patients. Are we as MTs pushed to be perfect ?? Heck yes - the documentation we help produce will impact a patient's care not only in the current admission or office visit but in the future when other docs are asking for copies of records. Medication errors, diagnosis errors can haunt a patient for years to come. No one can be 100% perfect all the time, but the goal is to strive to that - take the feedback as constructive criticism - learn from your mistakes and always consider the patient's needs above your own need for validation. It's not about you, it's about the patient.
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