I do not think they had a database the doctors could search.

• Have MTSO's or IC's all become electronic medical record suppliers as well as transcription pr - dinosaur?
  • Searchable database - Beth
  • I work for a service, a rather large one sm - no dinosaur
    • We are not allowed to keep any patient sm - P.S.
  • The companies I have worked for did this. - mtathome
    • just call me Dino - dinosaur?
      • I do not think they had a database the doctors could search. - mtathome
      • That seems like IT work, not MT work. (nm) - clhmt
      • Dino... - dinosaur?
        • You can store their reports, but sm - luv2type

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There's a product called ScriptXSearch, new on the market, that will allow you to easily provide your clients a searchable database.  You can find it at www.scriptxsearch.com, or write to rob@reynet.net--he's developing it specifically for ICs and small MTSOs.

The EHR is coming.  Physicians offices are going to be the last to move to the EHR, I think, but I'll bet more money will go that way now that the Democrats are in power.  Bush proposed it but never really funded it, so it's kind of stalled.  Except that it's such a good idea that it's picking up its own momentum.

My thought is that if I offer doctors these small pieces of the medical record maybe they'll take us along in the EHR.  A lot of vendors are advertising that their EHR is going to replace transcription.  I don't really think that's going to happen, but it may be pretty lean there for a while.

We can't go too far, though, HIPAA says something about if you maintain medical records you have to make them available to the patient and you SURE don't want to get caught up in that.  I'm a small serivce and I offer Rob's ScriptXSearch.  AAMT had provided a HIPAA agreement that included a clause explaining that we don't maintain medical records, these are preliminary reports.

We released MPLite less than a month ago, and most of the emails we are getting speak of how having a patient database is saving so much time.  Another feature that many emails comment on is how the invoices give the details (patient, Job#, MR, dictator, MT, DOS, Doc Type and count).

If you missed the release announcement, perhaps a free 10 day trial of MPLite will ease your workday too.

Best wishes for a joyous Christmas!
Vann Joe
Emmaus
Medical Transcription Software since 1995

It seems lately that I'm always getting database errors, either while pulling up updated physicians lists or problems with the queue.  Sometimes it won't even get past the login screen and requires a reboot of computer because editscript won't shut all the way down, even though there are no indications of it running on my task manager, so I can't restart it without a reboot.  At times it is only one account and I can login to another, others it is any account I try to login and pull up queue.  At times this decreases my work time by hours.  I've redone my whole computer hoping this would resolve the issue if it were my computer.  From what I can tell there is no difference between now and whe Escript seemed to be working perfectly well, at least on my end. 

Anybody else with this problem or any ideas? 

This web site has the listings for lots of major companies that we deal with every day.  It includes the numbers to actually speak to a human being and not a computer.  My daughter forwarded it to me, but I haven't actually had need to use it yet.  Thought it might take away a frown  or make someone's day a little better.

It is:  http://www.gethuman.com/us/

I would like to offer database management to my potential clients.  Any notions on what to charge for this?  I was thinking of an initial charge to set this up, and if I do their transcription no charge to maintain. 

Also want to offer form letter creation and mailing.  Has anyone ever done this and what did you charge?  Any input is appreciated.

I wanted to know from anyone who works at Focus if you are able to download work when you want to or is it assigned to you? I thought I heard that you can go onto the site and grab dictations when you wanted to instead of being assigned.

If anyone knows I would greatly appreciate !!

I would love an effortless line counting program too, but...

Just curious if anyone has investigated that issue with this software.

I work for a small MTSO, and I have been asked to work on a certain doctor.  It happened to me because I was getting his work done on time and how he wanted it done.  So, yes there are good reasons for this to happen. 

Thanks!

What do ya'll think about doctors who lie in their dictation.  I have come across this twice within the year - so I am sure it happens quite often.  Once was my own personal MR - doctor came in and told me I had a coronary spasm but when I got my records there was no mention of a coronary spasm or anything else having to do with coronary - he basically said he didn't know what the problem was - other than my blood pressure was 220/114 - which I had to take my own medicine in the bathroom to get it to come down -

then - a friend of mine had a bariatric procedure and developed a stricture - he then had an egd under conscious sedation (he is 21 years old) and he became combative on the table.  The doctor came into the RR and told us all about how he had been up and down on the table and how he was not able to do a dilation because of this - then when we got his records - the report said that he had used 3 different balloons and dilated the stricture successfully.  However, my friend was not able to keep anything down - so the doctor went in and did the egd again under general - and could not even find the anastamosis site - he was sent to a specialist who did an egd using dye and fluoroscopy.  Another stricture is forming and the specialist is going to place a stent which is not approved for bariatric patients - it is something they place in people who have esophageal cancer which allows them to eat until they die since the cure rate for esophageal cancer is so low.  I wouldn't let them touch me again - but this is a young kid and he doesn't know any better.  I might also add that the anesthesiologist and the nurse that was in the room on the first EGD came to the RR and told us how bad the situation had gotten before the doctor gave up.

long story long - do ya'll think this is common?  can we no longer trust doctors with our lives?  I realize they are scared of malpractice suits - but, as with my friend, we know that the doctor messed up his tissues - and the specialist told us how bad the tissue looked - like it had been "stabbed through with a knife, inflamed and beginning to scar up".  But do you think that they lie in all of their reports where something goes wrong - or that they color the situation so that they come out smelling like a rose?

best for me is www.rxlist.com

just type 1 or 2 letters and add *, then you'll get the drugs containing those letters.

Do a search as this has been really talked about several times during the past month or so.

You have to have the word exactly the same when you do the search if there is an extra space between first and last name or between two words it will not pull it up.  I use the search from my START key rather than from working in the microsoft word.  I also name my documents with an extension .doctor initial, i.e. .mb .jn .eif or whatever so if I know the doctor I can specify in advanced search to look only at that doctor's documents.  But if I am looking for a type of report, i.e. Colonoscopy, op note on crushed finger/nailbed, then I just put in those words and tell it to search all "My documents" or wherever you file off your reports and it does so.  I have had very good luck with this.   Hope this is what you were talking about. 

Patti

I see this question has been answered many times. Never mind.

If you type those schools into the search box for MTSTars, you will come up with hundreds of repsonses to that very question.  As well as a wealth of information.

Good luck with your decision.