If MT has checked off list of reports delivered,

• How would you handle clinic notes coming up missing after you've delivered them to the facility? - MissouriMT
  • Have supervisor MT sign for them - MTinNC
  • Why can't you send the notes back by email - attachment every day and have them print
    • P.S. - and also, I have had missing notes too - and usually it is because it is miscoded in the
  • Missing Notes - getting older
  • Bottom line.......sm - MT is ME
  • Flash drive - MslaMT
  • Agree with Patti. Charge for all the "extras'. - That should stop their carelessness with reports.
  • I might be cynical, but it sounds to me like--sm - ks
    • Retta is inclined to agree, sadly... - RettaB
  • Sorry to hear this........ - see inside
    • I had a doc that lost his tapes. Once time left - RettaB
  • As far as them telling you notes are missing...sm - Shannon
  • So do you have the missing notes?? - Patti
    • Yes, I always have the notes. One time, it was an entire day worth of clinics except for one! - MissouriMT
  • The first thing that comes to mind is... - sm
    • I was contracted to do all clinic work, if someone else is typing it... - MissouriMT
      • Someone is not telling the truth - wake up! N/M - anon
        • PS - It does matter if they are lying to you sm - anon
          • Wrong. MT wont be responsible for anything. - Dr. has final sign off report, verifying info righ
            • Dr. sign off is verification report is correct. - nm
              • If MT has checked off list of reports delivered, - this is MT evidence reports WERE delivered.

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I type the clinic notes at home, print them, verify the all notes printed, place them in a manila envelope clearly marked with the clinic name and dictator doctor's name and date of clinic.  I then deliver the notes to the lead Transcriptionist at the hospital which manages the clinics.  She in turn distributes them to the clinics. 

The last two weeks, I have gotten several calls from the lead MT that I give the work too that clinics are calling saying they are missing certain notes from certain days which is impossible because I type all notes for a specific day in one large document and print them out together.  There is no way that some are printing and some are not.  Plus I ALWAYS verify that each note printed.  Today, she called and said there were missing notes from two different days.

Then there is the issue of my work being typed by someone in the hospital.  When I deliver work I get a print out of what's on the system as far as clinic notes.  It is a worktype specific list that only I am supposed type.  There are a couple of doctors who dictate all their notes in one looooong job.  There were two very long jobs on my list, but were never pooled to me.  When I enter the specific job number, it says they have been transcribed.  In one instance, the dictator dictated half on one job and half on another.  I typed one job and the other just magically got transcribed.  When I've called to ask who's typing these reports, no one seems to know.

These ladies in this particular transcription department are not a friendly bunch.  I have felt that they sort of resent the fact that I am doing work from home while they have to come in and type.  I think they are wondering why they aren't allowed to work from home.  The work I do is very easy clinic work and would be pretty easy lines for one of them to do just to pad their line counts.

I have a meeting tomorrow with the HIM director who contracted with me about TAT and I know they want a shorter TAT than the agreed upon 24 to 48 hours and I know she is going to want me to make more deliveries than the three I do a week now.  I have asked that they set up a remote printer for me so I can print from home that way delivery isn't an issue anymore, but they act like this can't be done which I know it can be done.

I'm about to cut this account loose, but it's such easy work.  It's just that I'm running into brick walls at this place.

Thanks for listening to me whine! 

a "return to work" site to get people off disability and working.

They want you to sign up with a state worker to help you with vocational rehabilitation and get you back to work?  That's what I read.  And also they want you to work 30 hours a week with the telephone jobs.  That would be almost full-time, persons on permanent disability are not allowed to work that much.

nm

and she said it made my report bold!  Yikes!  This board has helped me so much though.  There are so many knowledgeable MTs who are willing to help and give advice.  I only wish I had had this when I first started many years ago!

Nice to know another ER MT who is also technically challenged!