Is their platform user friendly, or does it depend on the account?

• Good Company to Work For - PJ
  • Is their platform user friendly, or does it depend on the account? - Aunt Lou
  • There has always been a consistent - Two months at Amphion
  • Amphion Medical - You can't go wrong - nice people, plenty of work
    • But the work is boring . . . (sm) - Mt Girl
      • When I applied looking for acute care, Jane told me it's 70% clinic and 30% acute. nm - Not an Amphionite yet
      • Teaching hospital - Another amphion employee
    • To Amphioner - Transcender
      • Work - Another amphion employee
      • Here is an honest answer from another - sm
      • How long to get computer - Tory
      • I've never been without work at Amphion - I've been there for

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

I've used MS Word too, but there really isn't that much difference and its easy to learn.

I will be using a foot pedal - ? Transnet.

I'm using Meditech Magic now and I can't imagine anything being worse. 

nm

I've worked Escription on 3 different accounts and all 3 are very different.  I am impressed at how well the Escript picks up on reports and follows most account specifics.  It all depends on the accuracy of the Transcriptionist as the program learns the reports and specs.  If it learns it correctly, it will continue to spit it out correctly.  If you have lots of account spec mistakes coming from the transcriptionist or different transcriptionists are not being consistent, then you'll have problems with the VR.

Of my 3 accounts, one is awesome.  I easily make over 600 edited lines an hour and that is including taking a short break to walk around, refill my drink and use the bathroom.  Average reports are between 50-70 lines each, all AC.  The other one (which didn't last long) was averaging about 280-320 lines an hour and I did everything the same, all clinic and a waste of my time. The next one is also all basic 4 and I average around 400 with it being a new account and I know there is room for improvement and a lot of accout spec mistakes, which I blame on the other transcriptionist on the account, not VR. 

You can make decent money on using VR by practicing you shortcuts, save expansions on the most common mistakes (one of mine being that the VR never picks up "10 point review of systems", etc, especially practice the punctuation shortcuts and the alk K and shift alt K. 

Don't give up on it.  If anything, give another account a try. 

If a MTSO advertises that the MT works in MS Word and sends dictation by FTP, does this usually mean there will be no demographic/doctor database and the demographics will not be autopopulated?

I got into a mess with a small company (got out real quickly too).  I was required to print out daily email copies of the doctors' office patient schedules (which were barely legible) and type in all information.  I spent more time hunting for the correct patient through pages and pages of these schedules.  Then I had about 25 pages worth of doctor's names that I would have to go through to find the attending, referring, etc.  A total waste of time as I didn’t get paid for that. 

I wish MTSO would give more information as to what platform they use (if any).  Proprietary software is such a generic, totally useless description.  Would they buy a new car that listed, "Car has gasoline operated motor?" 

And for Pete's sakes, why so secretive about the pay?  Give a ballpark figure.  Just say, pay is between 7-12 cpl depending on skill, testing, etc. Tell me if you pay for spaces, headers, etc.  It would save them time because I wouldn’t even apply for a 7 cpl job. 

Before I spend an hour or two testing, I need more information from a company to be sure it is compatible for my needs.  If the MTSO would spend a little time on their website detailing their platform, how they send/receive files, pay rates,  how line rate is determined (spaces/no spaces) employee/IC/SE status, minimal line count, whether work pools consist of 100s of doctors, or smaller pools with 25-50 doctors etc.   Having all this information on their website would save them time and the MTs time.   Phoenix Medcom has a really good layout describing pretty much everything an MT would want to know before testing with them.  I am just tired of testing with a company and then finding out the job wasn’t exactly suited to my needs. 

I've been working for MTSOs for years now, using their templates which sometimes cause productivity problems (macro issues, etc). I'm wondering if productivity is increased when working on a structured platform, such as one that a national company provides for its transcriptionists?  I've never used a platform, but it would seem that all one needs to do is straight type onto the screen and the platform program takes care of margins, page breaks, etc?

Any thoughts (as well as companies who are hiring who use platforms) would be appreciated.  Thanks