I was searching for a Kaiser facility and the article came up (sm)
Posted By: Oh joy on 2006-03-15
In Reply to: Question about Amazon - sm
I don't know if I would call it better, but different sites come up.
It doesn't mention what they plan to do about identity theft and their 3 years is now up. Anybody work for this Kaiser facility?
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I had my last 2 babies at Kaiser Fontana. I LOVED Kaiser insurance...
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I didn't mean internet searching, I meant searching my directories for filenames. nm
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Searching, searching, name of ortho book w/stripe
I know I wrote it down twice off this site and cannot find it. The ortho/neurology? book with the stripe on the cover?
Thanks in advance!
Kaiser
Has anyone interviewed/tested with Kaiser? Looking for info regarding how they test and any info regarding working there (good or bad). Thanks!!!
I have a plan with Kaiser for $200 a mth.
I actually really dislike Kaiser, but it was the least expensive that I found.
I thought Kaiser was more $.
Since I have had number surgeries on my wrists (carpal tunnel and complications) I have been rejected by other insurance companies including Blue Shield. How do I sign up for Kaiser?
Not when you work as an MT at Kaiser (sm)
Not saying that's where the previous poster works. But you will make $23-30 per hour at Kaiser in California, and Kaiser even has a work at home program for acute care MTs, but they WILL put you through the ringer. In some departments, there is absolutely no schedule flexibility (when working at home or in-house). Plus, they are phasing out MTs due to a new EMR (HealthConnect). So you get excellent pay and benefits, but expect to be micromanaged.
Kaiser where I live (CA) does it for free too. (nm)
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Is this Kaiser nationwide or a particular hosp?
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Kaiser recently dropped transcription
Even their op reports. I don't know how you can do touch-screen op reports. I would like to know how this works if anybody does know out there
Kaiser switching to EMR and to be offering retrival of your medical records online. sm
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searching
There is none. So "searching for the ideal" can stop searching.
always searching for pts name, etc.
On DQS, Im forever scanning the demographics screen, doing a search cause the doctors either leave the screen blank without pts name, MR#, billing number, DOB, etc., or they put in the wrong information. So, I have to decipher what name the doctor is trying to say and/or spell and then search for it.
Searching ---
do you use the search box to the right of the *post a new message* box? That should bring up the subject/term/whatever you are looking for.
searching for the ideal..
 I am soooo very anxious right now. I have cried all morning and cannot seem to console myself or come up with a solution. I have been doing transcription for over 12 years and have been home for the last four. Through those four years, though I love being at home, I have come up with generally zip as far as contentment in my job goes. I have been an employee status, as well as an independent contractor. I have worked for places that seemed 'ideal' until 3 months or so were up, then they'd switch accounts on me (starting out on great accounts and leaving me struggling with a bunch of crud nobody in their right minds would want to do), dealing with owners or supervisors who lay out the 'heavy hand' and do nothing but tell you what you DO WRONG (one who comes to mind nearly gave me a nervous collapse--never could please her and who'd want to the way she treated you, sarcastic, mightier than thou approach).. ugh! I have done basic four hospital transcription, clinic transcription, ER transcription, and I just am not finding 'THE BEST' place to be. I don't know.. maybe I'm SUPER BURNED OUT. I never make enough money, don't have benefits, and I'm getting to the point where I feel I'm just finished with this 'career.' If I find a place where I make a decent amount of cash, I either have to put up with an idiot for a manager/ boss/ supervisor/owner or hideous dictation. If I go to a place that seems good as far as dictation/accounts go, and the management is decent, I wind up making next to nothing in pay. Most places I've experienced give you a come-on to begin with, give you a decent account and after two to three months, they switch you to the crap work. Still, they give you no pay raises for even attempting to do these reports, not like they would anyway. I think I have worked for at least six different companies since being at home in the last four years. I am sick of making no money, not enjoying my job anymore and dealing with all the crap nobody else wants to do. Sorry, I had to vent.. I'm ready to give up and find a job that actually PAYS in more ways than one. 
searching and not getting paid
I agree..Most of my doctors dont put in the right ID number or the correct name. In the past, I have searched and searched to my loss of minutes..Heck, we already lose minutes when we have to look up words or medications that are not stated correctly..We dont get paid for research time..so recently I have decided to leave blanks when I never would before.To be fair, trans companies should pay for down time when we are researching information..
I can't decide if I should be job searching or not.
I like many aspects of my job, but I dislike certain aspects about it, too. The thing is that this has been my best MT job ever. That's not something you just throw away. I know there's no perfect job out there, but I wonder if I could make more money with a better platform and an unlimited workload.
try searching the archives
This has been discussed several times in the last few months. You should be able to find some answers there.
You can get it by searching google and going
to their homepage. It has contact #'s and maybe email.
Tips on job searching
I have been doing MT for a little over 6 years. I have experience in several different specialties. I currently work in an ENT office and am looking for part time work to do at home. My only problem is that I never went to school and am not certified which makes it difficult to find a job. I have only had on-the-job training but I feel that I am very good at what I do and have learned quickly in my experience as an MT. Does anyone have any tips on how or where to find a job?
Thanks
Yes, and I'd rather keep searching and be happy
Than stay in a job that made me miserable. Even some of the posts on the job seeker's board project major attitude (one recent posting in particular sticks out in my mind), as if the poster is doing us a *favor* by allowing us to apply.
Nope, I'd rather make a little less somewhere else where I enjoy the work and I'm happy.
Congrats on cutting your ties with the not-so-nice person, and best wishes for you to find something GRAND in the very near future!
*CHEERS*
I am an MT at the facility where the
report came in. This dictator is not our best, but he's not our worst, either. I also transcribe his dictation. MQ does our overflow and has for YEARS! This is not an ESL dictator, and this physician has been at our hospital for years. I know nobody is perfect. All I'm saying is, I would never send a report through with that many blanks without someone checking first. I also know that yesterday one came through from MQ with more than 14 blanks, and it was from one of our easiest dictators! It doesn't matter whether you are management or an MT in the trenches (as am I). You should take pride in your work and care what the finished product looks like. If you have done your absolute best, then okay. If not, then there's a problem. With multiple reports coming through like this every day, it makes us wonder if all whoever types these cares about is getting the lines and doesn't care about the work they do.
Maybe work like this is why things aren't going so well at MQ, at least according to what I read on these boards. And for the record, I worked for MQ for a short period of time as an IC about 6 years ago but chose to go to work in-house for this facility for benefits.
I have been transcribing for 19 years, and I have had my share of difficult dictators, ESL, bathroom talkers, dictating in cars, airplanes, screaming children, fighting spouses, gum chewing, burping, and hearing other bodily functions, along with transcribing while parties, code blues, superbowl games, etc. are going on in the background. I know about crappy dictation and good dictation. I struggle through the bad and rejoice in the good.
The patients deserve the best. Our best! Yes, the ultimate responsibility should be the physicians, but isn't it our job to create the best possible report with what we have to work with? Medical Transcription is not a perfect world. There are no perfect dictators, but I do know a couple that come awfully close! In a perfect world there would be no sickness and we wouldn't be needed!
It's time for us to quit complaining about the dictation and do our absolute best with what we have. We owe the patient that much.
It is up to the facility not the MT (eom)
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Whatever the facility wants is what you should do.
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Try searching the archives. Some of us get tired of
answering the same old questions for people who can't be bothered to research what we said about that exact topic only last week. Besides, only the people making big bucks answer the polls. You don't see any of the newbies who are only earning $7 an hour admitting to it.
I bet it is from a Pakistani MT searching for work
that pays 3 cents per line!
I don't know, I found quite a few of these stories on searching.....
Here's another:
http://blog.imperfectparent.com/tag/oregon/
Instead of searching for a true unlimited
plan (I don't think they exist), when I needed ULD, I used Qwest on 2 phone lines and split the time between the two lines.
Searching in WP 5.1 documents through Windows XP
 I have changed word processing programs from DOS-based to Windows-based programs, but still need to access the old WP 5.1 documents. I am having trouble searching the documents through Windows, i.e., searching for a person's name, etc. inside the document. Do you have any suggestions? 
Searching WP 5.1 files in Windows
I do not have WP 5.1 on my XP computer, if that is what you meant.
Tried that, which is why I said I've been searching for info
Searching for digital dictation
Hi,
I'm looking for some advice and direction. I am looking for possible options for a digital dictation/transcription system for a multioffice practice on a Citrix network environment with remote transcriptionists. Several years ago I worked for a web based transcription service that used Chartnet, but that was several years ago. I don't 'really remember any big issues, but I don't need the payroll, production aspect of a system. I am looking more for tracking, in having control of knowing incoming and outgoing jobs with a system. Our practice is integrating with EMR; however, several of our physicians continue to choose to dictate and I am looking to other transcriptionists to possibly point me in the direction of software that they have used so I can research and try to find a product that will fit our practice - we are still on micro tapes. I am looking for a system that of course would be Transcriptionist friendly, but also afford me the ability to manipulate the jobs, i.e. assigning easily, producing reports and software that has good tracking abilities and of utmost importance, excellent sound quality for the player. As a transcriptionist, I personally would look for a system that I will not spend a lot of time in the download function and the complete function. It isn't real effective to me if the time uploadinging and downloading per job takes longer than actually transcribing the jobs. We have a large quantity of work. Key to me is having control of my work, meaning the physicians being able to identify dictation with a patient number and my being able to track jobs downloaded. Forgive my rambling!! I would appreciate anyone responding to me with any suggestions or telling me of your experience with software.
Thank you in advance - I know that the first place I needed to go with this transcription question was to the experts - folks that use these systems and are familiar.
No facility should be given permission (sm)
for any kind of physical discipline. Its not a spare the rod spoil the child issue. When having to discipline someone elses child, the results could be far less or far more than what the parents would have inflicted. The result in some cases, especially in Texas, is the accidental deaths of children. I spank my children, on the behind but as a LAST result. THerefore, I would not allow my children to go to a school or facility, camp, counseling, etc, that would attempt to discipline my child physically. Call me and I will come and take care of it, but don't put yourself in the parents position.
incompetent facility
Your story sounds like something from a small town (or small office). That many radiology reports withheld from being distributed, you know some of them had remarkable findings such as a chest x-ray that needed a follow-up MRI, CT scan, etc. I hope this girl gets terminated soon enough and out of there. Otherwise, the radiologists themselves will be paying the price and hence it would be followed through to the administrative office/CEO office of the medical center/hospital.
This is how we let facility know they need to check
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No, I know not every facility/provider is
compliant, but two wrongs don't make a right. I want to keep my nose clean if the facility/provider is ever charged and investigated for a HIPAA violation - if the gov't has done so thus far. You think the gov't will buy 'oh, I was non-compliant because my client signed my checks'?...nope!
It is still up to the facility to make that
determination, not the individual MT. We only do what we are told to do.
Wow, this must be directly for a facility. Sm msg
Very hard to imagine an MTSO paying that type of money, although it is well worth every penny! Good luck! Grab it quick!
Yes, it is for a facility, remotely. sm
My concern is the salaried position and not hourly. The hours are supposed to be 9 to 5 Mon-Fri; however, if the workload is heavy, no overtime is paid, no shift differentials, etc. because it is a salaried position.
I could end up working a 60 hour week for the same amount of money as a 40 hour week.
That is what is holding me back right now.
I guess I could always try it and if for some reason it doesn't work out and they demand more than 8 hours a day without any type of incentive or bonus pay, then decide to leave or not ~ good idea?
Contact the facility...
That's the best thing to do. I don't think they want people posting that type of information here.
Been there-done that, but you can not complain to the facility
If you are working for a service, it is their responsibility. I would not put a report note or anything of that nature with the report to the client as it could cause YOU a lot of trouble. I have had so many bad dictators like that - one even fell asleep while dictating!! I know you have to take the good with the bad but like I have said before, an account has to be profitable to me or I do not want it. Bottom line, I am here for the paycheck just like they are. When I worked in house years ago, the doctors were actually offended and insulted if you brought up discrepancies in their dictation. Then the MT company did not care much when I complained. They just said to make sure you typed accurately exactly what was dictated. Again, accurate garbage is still accurate garbage. It is the provider's responsibility to dictate a professional medical document before you can transcribe one. If he/she cannot do that, there is not really much you can do to help them.
Where I work, the facility wants L used.
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I consider job searching in the MT field a crap shoot
You can never tell which would be better than another until you try it. Too many bait and switchers out there.
In fact, upon further searching, I see very few negative posts
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Maybe searching internet and newspaper archives - sm
for any kind of stories related to identity theft resulting from offshore medical (or other) records is a start. Another angle would be to look for info. from editors on specific instances (Pt. privacy respected, of course!) where offshored or even US bargain-basement transcription came back with errors that could have caused injury or legal action.
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This company looks they offer good service in our area according to their add but I have never heard of them before. Any news would be appreciated.
find referrals or start searching
I don't know anyone who gets massages, so I have to go through the search process (yellow pages). Try one, if that doesn't work, try another. One who works on athletes is a good bet. When I call and talk to them, I tell them exactly what my problem is and what I'm wanting -- very deep tissue, therapeutic massage to work out the adhesions in the arms and lots of upper back/shoulder work. Ones who have been around awhile have worked on many with this exact problem. Unfortunately, not all of them will work for YOU, so it's a matter of trying one for a few months, then evaluating how you feel. If you're not better by then, move on. I just left one who I was SURE would help because of her style (rolfing), alas the arms got worse. I have one now who does exactly what I need. imho, gadgets and pills may relieve some pain, but they don't straighten out the muscles that's causing the problem. (btdt) If you can't go the professional route, get a shiatsu massager thingie, and dig that into your arms, shoulders, upper back and neck. They're all connected. The tingling I get in my little and ring fingers is relieved by working out the back of my shoulder. (I can't do my own massage well enough myself to maintain, but it's good for spot treatments.) The massage is painful, but it's worth it to keep my profession, and lifestyle, alive for me.
Anyone having probs searching for docs on ExText?
Is anyone else having this problem lately? In ExText, when I search for a physician's name by using the Cntrl-A function, it is extremely slow, and about half the time, the search seems to freeze, and then I get a message that the connection has been lost. I click on "Retry", am connected, and physicians' names are displayed. The whole process is as slow as molasses, and occasionally, I get completely kicked out of the system, or everything freezes up solid. This has been happening for about 2 to 3 days.
I meant file searching on my computers, too. nm
Usually Dr. dont hire MT, it is thru facility and
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The facility is a "suit" who has no idea of MT. He
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