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• Which platform do you find the best - Curious
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      • Dictaphone EXText - notplaytim
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I will be using a foot pedal - ? Transnet.

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

Yes, and here is another tip that would help a lot of people:

For some reason the DQS mindset is to put everybody on everything.....In other words, they like to put multiple accounts in your pool. The thought here, of course, is to improve TAT on all accounts.

However, the problem is this. One account has certain banned abbreviations while another account has other banned abbreviations. One account has special rules that the next account does not --- and the next account has its own special rules.

Out of 10 reports, you may get 3 ds from account A, 2 ER reports from account B, 1 H&P from account C, 4 ops from account D.

What management needs to understand is that this is NOT productive. You have to stop and rethink the "rules" between each report and check the client profile or make needless mistakes. This may seem to be a small consideration but it definitely impacts speed/production/TAT.

Each MT should make it know in very clear terms (and you may have to repeat yourself every couple of weeks on this) that you can only juggle a certain number of accounts without negatively impacting your production (which impacts their profit margin and TAT by the same level of negativity).

I just got my foot pedal but have no idea how to get it to work with EMDAT Inscribe; much to my dismay a manual was not included with the pedal.  Obviously, even though it was pre-programmed to work with EMDAT, I can't just plug it in and get to work.  UGH!

Can anyone help me here.  I'm a real computer dummy so I need to be walked through the steps as though I were a kid.  BTW, my hot keys are F7 Play, F6 rewind, and F4 RR.

TIA

Does anyone like extext?  Any information on Extext would be helpful!  Does anyone like the word Expander better than shorthand?

TIA

Is anyone familiar with this program?  I have been offered part time and she asked me if i had a dictaphone, and then said we use extext where it goes directly into the hospital.   Help!! 

Texas - sunny and 78 degrees!

installed on their home computer and discovered that Control T or Control X won't work in Word any more?

If so, does anyone know how to fix it?  I really need help here and can't get it from anyone. 

I work on ExText, and have previously work on DQS;

Yes, it has a spellchecker (mine does anyway) and expander.  As compared to DQS, they are comparable...not really much difference that I can say right off the top of my head. For me, the program really doesn't seem to make a huge difference, it's more the dictators that seem to make the most difference, as well as the company you work for.  My company happens to be great! Loads of work, plenty of incentive, and nice nice supervisors and QA. I love it!!!

Ours is set up so that you have to search for the correct patient and correct encounter number. Hit select and that patient's name should come up on the demographics screen. When you open the document, the name should be changed to the correct one.

If the correct patient is not in your system, you have to create a new encounter.

Ellen S.

I use ExText.  Easy program to learn.  Great for searching for previous documents, etc.  It has its own Expander but you don't have to use it.  It is built-in, so if you leave the company you lose everything in it.  It supports the other expander programs just fine.  You can also make normals and save them in ExText in a different mode than in their expander.  There has been some talk here of low line counts with it (which I tend to agree with) and you may want to research that a bit, but they say it is the company you work for that programs how the lines/characters are counted and not the fault of ExText. 

Good luck to you!

I use it now and I love it.  I started out on eScription/EditScript and that was a breeze.  I was afraid EXText would be difficult, but it's very user-friendly and easy to adapt.  I don't care for the ESP, but EXText works great with my Instant Text.

One of my favorite features is the search.  If you don't know a doctor's name but can get the first 3-4 letters, you can type those letters and a ? and the search will give you a list.