Honestly, the test files ARE representative of what you're going to
Posted By: be glad on 2005-10-10
In Reply to: Question about digital sound files - RT
work from on a daily basis. Take heed! It's not the file format, it's the doctors and their system.
I've been hired without testing, and I really don't like to go through training only to find out that the sound files are inaudible. I really am glad for the companies that test, although I previously grumbled about how much time it took. It's a bigger waste of my time and theirs to find out that I can't understand the sound files after going through the hiring and training process. Be glad you find out before you're hired that the sound quality is lousy. Most of the good files go to voice recognition or overseas any more.
You can download Express Scribe for free at http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/ That will probably play the files better than through WMP.
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I'm not looking for software. Just want some test files for someone to
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Someone posted this site a while ago for test files. sm
Sample test files to download from a bunch of different specalities. No time limits.
http://www.absoluteexperience.com/AudioSamples.html
Yes, but the test files are indicative of the actual work.
If the sound quality was so terrible, you didn't want to work there anyways! Right? I do know how you feel. I brain fahrvegnugened on the difference between brady and tachy. Now, everybody knows that one. I just got momentarily confused on it because I get "deer in the headlight" syndrome on oral testing.
Question about the foot pedal with test files. sm
Sorry to digress, but I have tested for several companies and my foot pedal did not work with their wave files. I had to resort to hand controls for the test files.
Am I missing something? I sure would like to know because I hate testing with hand controls.
Thank you
Have you asked your teacher to look over your test files, if you saved them, to
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Skip it. No one cares. Either you're good on the test or you're not.
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Honestly, you're doing well for a newbie. Hang on to
The way this industry is going, if you can't do acute care, and be able to edit it, you might be in trouble down the road both in terms of job security and the amount of money you can make. You will be suprised how quickly your line count grows when you get used to the formatting, doctors' names, get your glossary and standards built up a little,and get into the rhythm of things. Keep studying terminology on your own time--especially for ops. Be flexible about accepting a couple of different accounts to keep you busy and your knowledge base growing. You want to try to build up your speed with small goals, but not at the expense of quality; the speed will grow on its own if you have the terminology down pat and you use your production tools wisely. The first six months is the hardest, but hang in there.
If you have any past test files you haven't deleted, you can use those. Put them in an easy to fi
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Before you take that test you're looking for
you might want to consider getting some MT training. We're not just monkeys with keyboards. We actually have training. It's a real profession and not as easy as some seem to think it is. Reading something on a claim form and listening to a doctor or other health practitioner dictate are two completely different things.
Instant Text representative. Can you provide Spheris
This would be very helfpul!!! We are creating our own. I noted on a productivity board that you were going to provide one (a radiology word-based glossary) to a person who had a license. Spheris probably has a license and sure could utilize it!!!
Thank you!
Hopefully you're not cheating on an employment test, right?
shame on you
It depends on what kind of voice files you're playing.
The sound on Express Scribe is terrible. I think it's worth it to find a player that plays your voice files with good sound. If you use wav files, a Bytescribe wav player would be excellent (get the dongle version so you get unlimited installs). They also have a version that converts DSS to wav. I complained about the DSS files not sounding clean on speed up and slow down so they told me about another version they have. If you have a Bytescrive wav player, it's already on your computer. Of if you're using DSS files you could also use a DSS player. (I've never tried them).
It's a test in progress to measure what MTs know and what type of test to give for the SM
different levels of MTs. It's over $90. That's a lot of money to pay to someone who is giving these tests for research as to what type of testing should be done for the different levels of MT. The AAMT will probably take the results and make a test that they can give in India or the Phillipines or some other foreign country.
tuning fork test: Is it about a hearing test? .See inside
A whisper is about 20 dB
Loud music (some concerts) is around 80 to 120 dB
A jet engine is about 140 to 180 dB
Hope I could help
Filezilla is the software used to transfer files to an FTP server where the files "reside".
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Not a medical typing test but this website can test you..
It's called www.typingtest.com
Atleast it will give you an idea.. Sadly, I had to take it twice before I passed it LOL
Why would they do a microalbumin test when she has the period? A lot of test s will come out wrong
Why would they do a microalbumin test when she has the period? A lot of tests will come out wrong.
Neer's test is a shoulder impingement test
Don't think that has to do with the knee. How about "bucket handle tear" of the knee? Never heard of Neer having anything to do with the knee.
Converting voice files to digital files
I have a Voice Solutions dictation system that will happily convert DS4000 voice files to digital when they are downloaded (wave files). However, it will not recognize any other files for conversion. I had a physician download .WAM files from his DS-30 and my dictation system would not convert it. Anyone have any suggestions? I would greatly appreciate any input.
Thanks!!!
happens quite often i would test again or go see your GYN for blood test which is more accurate
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Did you save files in .rtf format? The files need to be
as a Word document or it won't count them. Could be the problem.
Yeah a 30 minute test---work for free, he gets enough to test, his work is done - nm
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Most companies do no use their only files (HIPAA). They use files provided by other companies, serv
If you can get through the test files, then the sound quality on the actual company files is better. And, the dictation is never as bad as the test files, plus you have QA to help with hard blanks.
Or maybe that in itself IS the test! It's really an ethics test, LOL. nm
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I honestly don't know - but I will try
You have raised a lot of good points and I appreciate your post.
Of all the comments today, you have the very best post. I don't want to agree with you, but you are right.
Jason is gone from MDI. I did read some of the responses on the questionnaire that he sent out and wondered the same thing myself. Nothing ever came of it.
I spoke to Sue about your post and we agreed about several of your comments.
I do not agree with you that our Team Leaders are not available, etc. They also work at night, weekends and holidays when necessary.
Why don't you express some of this to your TL?
I will take your very good advice and continue emailing our employees about positions that are available from within our comapny.
You will be getting more mass e-amils from me, telling you what is going on with MDI. I promise.
Thanks,
Liz
Honestly
A brand new MT shouldn't be working at home. That's just my opinion.
Congrats about the baby. Good luck!
Honestly, I just don't see it.
Private doctor offices are cheap. Why would they send coding/billing out when it all needs to be done through local clearinghouses and there is no access to the patient's charts. Hospitals have too much for the doctors to do with charts/coding/records etc to send them out, but you know what, I guess anything is possible these days. I didn't think I'd see the day when Indians would be doing our work either.
Honestly, I think you can use either (sm)
I personally use okay. I think OK looks tacky in a medical report, as if it were slang, but that's just my opinion. If your employer prefers okay, then you should spell it that way. 
No but honestly...
Profanity or not, judgemental or not, 4 abortions by the age of 23 is extremely sad, and let's not judge the doctor who was probably sick at heart with it. But still, profanity doesn't belong in records and I would leave a blank for the doc to sort out.
Honestly
There is certainly no need to take that tone. Developmentally delayed is the preferred term among physicians. The American Association on Mental Retardation changed its name as a consequence. The DSM-IV is slow to change because the people in charge don't want to go through all the time and expense to publish a fifth version. Again, the doctor said "he is retarded." Not a medical term, not appropriate. As far as autism, case in point on DSM-IV. Depending on where you look up the DSM-IV some publishing sites still have it on the wrong axis.
As far as getting over it, if people had that attitude we'd still be calling black people the N-word and neither they nor women would be allowed to vote. The term retarded is as offensive as the N-word or any other racial slur. So beg your pardon but as long as people, especially doctors who are supposed to be well-educated, continue to be ignorant enough to use that word to describe someone with a disability, I will continue to have something to say about it.
And oh btw, if the doctor wasn't so ignorant, he would know that saying oh well I want to do a bone marrow biopsy but it would be too hard to explain to this patient, is just wrong. He should know about conservatorships and health care proxies. Because if this patient is truly disabled, then he was declared incompetent by the courts on his 18th birthday and he is not the one who makes the medical decisions.
Honestly, you are about...
a decade too late. US citizens' private information is already overseas, be it medical records or bank records. The whole country knows about it. What has been done? Now that MTs are in fear of losing their jobs, then we begin to see concern about privacy. Sorry, but it's too late. The damage has already been done. If we really cared, we should have acted a long time ago.
Honestly, 300 lph is not much for VR.
I don't know anyone though doing 500-600 lph doing straight transcription. You may just have a crappy account, but there are those that are getting great line rates with VR. As you said though, the pay rate does suck, so it is definitely not the MT benefiting from VR.
In all honestly, I will not...
spend time on it. This issue should have been addressed 10 or more years ago. It saddens me, but I have come to the conclussion that MTs are basically clueless when it comes to the industry as a whole. Sure, we know how to transcribe, but we do not understand the HIM industry and how it operates. If we did understand it, we would realize that we are way late in the game. In other words, we have been left behind.
Honestly...
I have no problem taking criticism. I am also not trying to gather people to send letters to the government, yet I do not know anything about the issue at hand. It's embarassing for the entire industry. I am sorry you are offended by it, but it's embarrassing.
no, it won't. honestly.
the daughter isn't the one earning the grade. an AA is NOT a big deal at all. it's NOT something you put after your name like a credential.
honestly this could be me! I also sm
have an odd last name and can't do anything without somebody knowing about it at that da*@* hospital! I would, at the very least, put a note on the chart. The state I live in has a law that if there are errors in your record, you have a right to sit down with a MR person and get it straightened out.
Hubby has been there 18 years. If they ever scr** him over, I swear I will first sue them and then I will go in and demand every chart, all 64 of them be gone through and all the mistakes retyped. If he didn't work there, I would have already done it!
Honestly, they need to be trained.
Mine had the same mentality when we first got together. I refused to do it. If he scattered dirty laundry, I left it there. If he didn't put his dishes in the sink, they sat out. I'm not anyone's slave. Also, if they expect the woment to work, they need to share in the housework, child care, and finances.
You honestly believe that? Wow, naive.
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Honestly, the MQ speculation is
getting so bad about the what if's with the new packages coming out in October and all the speculation, I had this comic flash of all the suits sitting in NJ with headphones on, plugged in,to the big PC's in corporate land just listening to all the "chatter" on the boards...sorta like the CIA supposedly was...can you imagine all the chatter traffic going on until October?
We just need to take a deep breath, try to relax a bit, really nothing we can do until October, then who knows what part of the month we'll all get our packages?
Believe me, it has worried me to no end, single mom, can't afford much more change, but also can't do a darn thing about it till then.
Oh, am sorry to hear that. I honestly don't
know what to tell you on that...DSG was a good company until these recent weeks, pretty much, but they are making all these changes, and I don't think they're being honest about why. I could be wrong, but if things don't change soon, I will be looking for another job. When they don't answer your emails, etc., you kind of get suspicious.
Thank you. He could tutor :) I honestly think
he could do it on his own with the materials. I have never, ever had to help him with his homework and he still gets honors. Oh. . . to be THAT lucky! I struggled through high school and college to make honors. He's what I refer to as an "open and shut student."
He opens the book, reads the assignment, shuts the book and brings home an "A" or "B" on his test.
I'm no slouch in the brain department, but I've never had to help him so I was thinking with some materials, guidance, and putting him on a schedule, it might work. If that ends up being what he would like to do for now until he regroups.
I honestly could have written that....sm
back when I was in high school in the late 70s! The first high school I went to was just like that.... there was a large snob/bully society (the snobs were basically verbal bullies because they'd put down people that weren't in the "clique", and I had some idiot teachers. My algebra 2 teacher was so stupid that she would write a problem out on the board, stop, look at it and say "oh that's not right" and then erase it, doing this 2-3 times per problem,... then wondered why no one had a clue what to do on tests.
I was grateful when we moved to another town and the high school in the next town was much smaller. The teachers cared about the students and teaching, and the students generally cared about each other. There weren't snobs there because the area was economically depressed and no one had a lot of anything. I was able to participate in a program with a local college where during my senior year I went to high school 1/2 day and college 1/2 day, so the 10 of us that did this (out of a graduating class of 99) graduated from high school with 30 hours of college credits completed. We were also able to do this because the local college gave us discounts to participate in this program.
When I've asked on classmates.com about some of the snob/ bullies from the 1st high school not a single one of them has had a great life. One of the ones that was in the "it" girl group has been divorced 4 times now and is a heavy partier, and I've been told that she looks like crap from the years of partying. One of the guys who was the most "it" for the males died from AIDS which he ended up getting after he moved to New York to get into acting, turned to a life of male prostitution and picked it up there. The successful people are those who hung around with people like I did. Out of the group I hung around with 1 is a pediatrician, another a dentist, another is an architect, another is a software engineer and every one of us has stayed in contact throughout the years and get together occasionally.
I honestly wish you would explain (sm)
as the logic defeats me. Seems to me the reverse is true.
Personally, I couldn't live with myself if I drove to the store, knowing that someone's son or daughter had to die for the gas I was using, but if you can . . . enjoy yourself, I guess.
Honestly, I really never found out.
Who knows, but I will not even go to the door anymore. That was so weird and so rude!
Honestly, don't you have something else to do today? nm
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not trying to disrupt anything, honestly
My flaming face reference was to the one inside the original post like this
Not to the flame that flickers outside on the main page next to the original post that shows it has had a large number of viewings.
I'm sorry to have ruffled feathers by making a casual observation simply about emoticons. My apologies to anyone haven taken offense regarding this.
Honestly, it will backfire on you if you try to
be conscientious and point out errors. Its hard enough being ALLOWED to do it as QA - MTs hate our guts for the most part. But for another MT to point out an error, NO WAY! It will not be accepted as you expect, either by your boss or the other MTs! I guarantee that 100%! 
honestly, just let it slide. You don't have to say anything. I have a sm
tendency to talk a lot sometimes and write a lot sometimes and I would hate to think that something I said in passing could jeapordize my career. I'm sure she was just trying to be very friendly. I know many recruiters and they are very friendly. I wouldn't say anything.
Do you honestly think that you can get MTs to refuse to go to
People have enough problems getting to the physician of their choice due to insurance hurdles!
Your idea is very admirable but in today's economy (especially with all the moaning and groaning about NOT making enough money to live), you are more than unrealistic. Perhaps a handful, literally a handful, of those MTs who have husbands who provide very well might opt to do that but who/what is that going to serve? The well-supported MT club?! lol
You've waited too late. Besides, what are you going to use for your platform to reach the masses? These message boards where only God knows who visits (ID and numbers) -- eventually the owners will tire of your use of their services and probably charge you. Of course, you have television - a very, very expensive medium. Perhaps some trade magazines, again advertising costs. And what will the members who live far away get in return for their hard-earned dollars?
What product/service are you going to offer?
Everyone's just full of these ideas but no one is putting a reality in there anywhere.
Honestly ... no one here is an authority on
You would be best served by contacting the Superintendent of your school system to discuss this. Escalate it further to one of the government offices that handle HIPAA issues.
I honestly have no idea.
I won't ask either, just because I think my boss(es) are in a rock and a hard place themselves. They're doing what they have to do and I'm doing what I have to do. I'm not a complainer either. I just take 'it" for so long and then...well, then I don't. If I'm having a problem I mention it once. If I feel cornered and have to mention it twice, like I did overnight, I don't play along anymore and that's the point I'm at right now.
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