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Hello

I am also in the process of going digital.  Some things I have learned along the way.....

1. I bought the Olympus DSS 330 for each of my docs.  It's reasonably priced, easy to use, and software works great.  I bought the recorders, because the doctors were completely happy with the tapes, and I am the one who wants to cut down on travel time and gas, so I felt like I should supply the recorders.

2. Audio files are too big (at least for my e-mail) to transport via regular e-mail, and they have to be secure or encrypted, so I bought space (personal/small business account) on CryptoHeaven for 2.49/month.  This is supposed to be HIPAA compliant and secure.  The files get uploaded to this site and can be transferred back and forth between you and the doctors' offices.  Keep in mind, if you or the docs have dial up, this process takes forever, so it is good to know what type of internet connection your docs have.  Cable and DSL are much faster.  If they have dial up, it could take up to 30 minutes for them to upload one day of dictation or even more.  Just a side note... I have found that audio files in DSS format are the smallest and thus the fastest to transfer.

3. I also use WinZip with this as an added protection.  The practice felt comfortable with the protection of WinZip, but WinZip alone does not provide the vehicle to transport the large DSS audio files, and DSS audio files cannot get compressed much more, so that is why I went with CryptoHeaven. 

You can e-mail me if you would like.  Keep in mind, I am no expert, and I am finding out things as I go along.  I will let you know how it goes.

Lynn  

Do you have a "sample" report of something you've already done in whatever format you're currently working in?  If you do, you could take your report and figure out how much you made doing that report in the format you're currently working in.  Then copy the report and put it in a new document with Times New Roman 11 and one-inch margins.  Then, using 0.9 gross lines, figure out how much you would make with the new format.  Compare it to the old.  Maybe do this with a few different reports to get an idea of a true comparison.

Hope this makes sense. :)

Even my QA person can't get this one, so I thought maybe someone here might have an idea.  Podiatric.......the doc says, "The patient relates that approximately four months ago, the patient stepped into a hole and twisted his foot.  He heard a pop and has since had intermittent heel pain.  The patient does relate ______  dyskinesia with pain on extended periods of weightbearing." 

Once, it sounded more like prosthetic, only without the "r" sound, and the second time maybe even like postatic, which I know is not a word.  Any help would be much appreciated as he has gotten me on this twice already. 

Were it my personal account, I'd just call him and ask him! 

does anyone know of where I can find or how I can go about looking for a consulting person to help me out with trying to get local accounts and what I need and should do such as contract, how to go about charging the client, what software is needed and the ins and outs of various ways of getting the work back to the client?  any information would be so greatly appreciated.  I just need pointed in the right direction. 

Or can somone give me advice as to what they did to get up and running?

Have a beautiful day!

but it seems the experience that I have had with these, they are fairly short.  I guess they could be lengthy, but I would say on an average $3.00 a page should make you a mighty fine living.  You may want to see some samples before pricing this one out.  The experiences I've had were with a hospital, and these were fairly short reports.  The pathology department employed two full-time hourly MTs for a hospital that probably held about 650 beds.  The OR had about 12 rooms.  The ambulatory surgery department had about 5 rooms.  These are all just my opinions though.  Good luck to you! 

Going into the printer properties and checking your printing preferences. If your not sure how to do this....Go to your Control Panel, open up Printers...find the printer, right click on it, hit properties, and under the General tab, there should be an area at the bottom titled "Printer/printing Preferences (something like that)..hit that and check out all your settings. I'd play around in that areas with your settings to see if somehow something is in there wacko.. Just a thought. I hope it works..

I just downloaded the EditScript (Escription) program onto my computer but I'm not getting any prompts from the Installation Wizard to install it.  This is a brand-new computer and I'm kind of a Vista imbecile since I've never used it. 

Is there some other step I need to take to get the program to actually install onto my computer so I can use it, or have I done something wrong? 

I'm SOOOO confused and can't reach my supe to ask her, so I was hoping someone here would be able to offer some advice.

Thanks ever so much!!! 

absolutely nothing, but I'm going to give my opinion anyway. 

Here's the problem with the whole QA process.  We (MTs) are told when interviewing that this or that service strictly adheres to the great and almighty, BIBLE of medical transcirption, the BS, er I mean BOS.  Then, when hired and given our assigned accounts, we are told the BOS applies, but .....  we do it this way for this client, that for that client, and the other way for another client. 

So, we as MTs are supposed to sift through all the crap and put out a flawless document and on top of all that, we now must also consider the egomaniacal QA person who has their "own style" of QA? 

So, now we must take an awful dictator who can scarcely put together a coherent sentence and make sense of what they are saying, then we have to make sure that whatever sentence we've constructed to articulate the dictator's thoughts strictly adheres to the rules of the BOS but WAIT then we must make sure that we've broken the correct BOS rules to suit the account specifics, and then we must now contend with the QA person who has decided we should dot our I's with little hearts cause that's the way she likes it?

And we do all of this for 8 cpl ?!?!?!?!?!

Somebody stop this crazy merry-go-round, I feel sick! 

HELP! Does anyone else have this problem and what did you do to solve it?

I use ExText and if I do a Cntl-S then Cntl-T, ExText will close both the document I've been viewing AND the job I'm working on, then open a completely new BLANK document, no headers, etc. I still have the voice files, but no document. I lose the job I've been working on as there is no time to save it to disk. It  usually near the end of transcribing a job. It happens every day, usuallly near the end of my shift. My production is suffering because of it, too.

I'm getting so frustrated and don't know what to do anymore. ExText has been reloaded a couple times and that doesn't solve the problem. I've been told it's my Word causing the problem and I have to remove it and reload that program, which I had done months ago, but still have the same problem.

I don't know where else to turn or what to do. Am I destined to NOT work for any company that uses this program? If so, that leaves out a heck of a lot of jobs.

Other than this problem, I really love using ExText. I think it's great...when it works right.

I have never heard of them and they sound kinda metal to me.  What category does INXS fall into?     I said I know very little about the music that these people are singing for the most part.  Is Nirvana metal? 

Thanks.

I got a Brother fax machine several years ago at Office Depot for around $80 or so.  I later got an HP all-in-one in 2005 at Sam's.  I don't remember what it cost, but it's worth it if you'll be faxing regularly.  Some of your clients may prefer a scanned version.

You could also compare on-line fax capabilities, which seems to be more current, for obvious reasons.  I can't remember the details, but I've heard it advertised on talk radio.

Just a thought.

It was on sale at Best Buy (there were only 3)  That is w/o the monitor, cause I didn't need one at the time.  I know the support people are usually Dave or Keith (yeah, right) they barely speak English, but I don't actually know where the computers are made.   Check for sales at Best Buy and get there early.

I pulled out my old Lanier machine to work for a company I worked for previously and I forgot how to set it to go back a couple of seconds when I take my foot off the pedal.  I tried Googling,,found nothing.. Does anybody know?  thanks

Several jobs I worked in the past allowed the capability to send a fax through the computer without using a fax machine.  However, I have no idea that program was set up but would really like something similar at home.  I can't figure out where to start.  Anyone know anything about this?

Thanks.

I am an at-home MT and I have been using an Olympus Pearlcorder T1000 for the last several years. I am on my second one - the first one the hinge doesn't work correctly to insert/remove the microcassette tape but the machine still works (but I have to use something to flip/pry the lid open-lol) ! In fact, I am using it now because about a year or more ago I purchased another one (exact same model) as I felt it would be wise to have an extra machine). Anyway, the new one started pulling out the tape out of the microcassettes and won't backup/rewind like it should. It did this a couple months ago and I did the alcohol cleaning with a q-tip and that didn't work, so tried some silicone spray and finally it started working properly again but now I have run into the same problem. I tried all the above mentioned tactics but it didn't work this time. :( I hardly feel it is worth taking it in to have it repaired since they are not a costly machine, and BTW, I have an older Sony business quality transcription machine (around $500 over 10 years ago!) that I had so many problems with and had it in/out of the business machine repair shop several times (so additional $ spent) and still ended up with problems, so that is why I lean now more toward the cheaper models and if I get a couple years use out of them I am happy.

I am just wondering if there are any other machines that you might recommend around the $200 price range that you have had good luck with or should I just buy another Pearlcorder.

TIA.