Phys database sorely lacking SM
Posted By: keep your $ on 2009-02-11
In Reply to: Benchmark KB online reference - Jen G
and the rest of it is okay, but certainly not almost $200 okay.
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Look at the ordering and family phys
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I'm sorely underpaid, just as I suspected.
Grrrr....
that's what I'm lacking
I used to work out all the time, and I felt great...now I barely get in three days a week....i have a very active 4-year-old, plus two teenagers, and they all have very different schedules, and it seems my exercising has went to the wayside, but I definitely need to get back to doing more. 
Professionalism is lacking everywhere!
Look around you at church. I was taught that you went to church to meet "the King of Kings" and you wore your best. I have to go round and round with especially my son. We have compromised - a dress shirt and tie everyother Sunday - opposite Sunday just a dress shirt. Even look at the people going in and out of funeral homes. Years ago, you would never see anyone attend a viewing or funeral in jeans. Common attire today. If you are raising teenagers today, you really feel this crunch because they are constantly having to go against the flow of their friends. We went to our family doctor's office just a couple of weeks ago. The doctor had on tennis shoes, jeans and a polo shirt. My 13-year-old son said, "he sure didn't look like a doctor!" I about shouted -- I think the message is getting through!! It does matter what you wear!
You seem sorely underqualified to run your own business. Stick to being an employeed. nm
dawg
you need an education cuz you're lacking
While I am quite educated, this below came from a T-shirt someone bought for me years ago because they said the T-shirt reminded them of how I have tried living life and succeeded and taught others the same. (Think about it, have you not met some over-educated people in the life who haven't one lick of common sense?) ENJOY THE READ!!
SOHK
A good education is an essential part to success. However, one must have a certain respect and admiration for those who have made their marks without the benefit of the traditional university education. The culture that we call street has given birth to some of the most successful and insightful people in the world. Many of us would not be here today were it not for the skills and knowledge we acquired and the dues we paid on the streets. There is no replacement for the street sense and instinct. There is no school tougher than the School Of Hard Knocks.
    
Searchable database
There's a product called ScriptXSearch, new on the market, that will allow you to easily provide your clients a searchable database. You can find it at www.scriptxsearch.com, or write to rob@reynet.net--he's developing it specifically for ICs and small MTSOs.
The EHR is coming. Physicians offices are going to be the last to move to the EHR, I think, but I'll bet more money will go that way now that the Democrats are in power. Bush proposed it but never really funded it, so it's kind of stalled. Except that it's such a good idea that it's picking up its own momentum.
My thought is that if I offer doctors these small pieces of the medical record maybe they'll take us along in the EHR. A lot of vendors are advertising that their EHR is going to replace transcription. I don't really think that's going to happen, but it may be pretty lean there for a while.
We can't go too far, though, HIPAA says something about if you maintain medical records you have to make them available to the patient and you SURE don't want to get caught up in that. I'm a small serivce and I offer Rob's ScriptXSearch. AAMT had provided a HIPAA agreement that included a clause explaining that we don't maintain medical records, these are preliminary reports.
I do not think they had a database the doctors could search.
I think they just store the reports in a way that can be retrieved. As a subcontractor, in general I keep the files only until I am paid for them. When I complete a file, I send the reports to the doctor and to the MTSO. Some large companies do provide an electronic health record, but I doubt it would be feasible for an IC to provide this. I would say this is one of the areas we cannot compete with the big guys.
Meditech is a hospital database. sm
It allows everyone in the hospital and also physician offices remotely to view patients' medical records. There are upgrades but they are costly. It is not transcription friendly at all. I worked on it for years, and so glad that was on an hourly basis. You are better off transcribing in Word and cutting and pasting into Meditech. It is not user friendly. You cannot download it. The hospital or MTSO must give you a password and you either access it by VPN through the MTSO or directly into the hospital's server. When it goes down, you can lose reports. There is a recover feature, but it doesn't work all the time. Just be sure to save reports midstream. One more thing, there are a lot of screens and some require data be filled in before you actually get to transcribe. JMO. I'm sure I'll get flamed but I've been through upgrade after upgrade and you wind up losing features and having to put canned text back in, which can only be done by the Meditech people. NOT USER FRIENDLY at all in my opinion. It also lags behind your typing. You would be better off finding work that you can type in Word. 
Patient Database in MS Word?
We released MPLite less than a month ago, and most of the emails we are getting speak of how having a patient database is saving so much time. Another feature that many emails comment on is how the invoices give the details (patient, Job#, MR, dictator, MT, DOS, Doc Type and count).
If you missed the release announcement, perhaps a free 10 day trial of MPLite will ease your workday too.
Best wishes for a joyous Christmas!
Vann Joe
Emmaus
Medical Transcription Software since 1995
escritption database errors
It seems lately that I'm always getting database errors, either while pulling up updated physicians lists or problems with the queue. Sometimes it won't even get past the login screen and requires a reboot of computer because editscript won't shut all the way down, even though there are no indications of it running on my task manager, so I can't restart it without a reboot. At times it is only one account and I can login to another, others it is any account I try to login and pull up queue. At times this decreases my work time by hours. I've redone my whole computer hoping this would resolve the issue if it were my computer. From what I can tell there is no difference between now and whe Escript seemed to be working perfectly well, at least on my end.
Anybody else with this problem or any ideas?
...should be new meds, colleagues not in the database, etc. Damn! nm
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Talk to a real person! database
This web site has the listings for lots of major companies that we deal with every day. It includes the numbers to actually speak to a human being and not a computer. My daughter forwarded it to me, but I haven't actually had need to use it yet. Thought it might take away a frown  or make someone's day a little better.
It is: http://www.gethuman.com/us/
Form letters and database management
I would like to offer database management to my potential clients. Any notions on what to charge for this? I was thinking of an initial charge to set this up, and if I do their transcription no charge to maintain.
Also want to offer form letter creation and mailing. Has anyone ever done this and what did you charge? Any input is appreciated.
Focus Infomatics - they assign work or you pick from database
I wanted to know from anyone who works at Focus if you are able to download work when you want to or is it assigned to you? I thought I heard that you can go onto the site and grab dictations when you wanted to instead of being assigned.
If anyone knows I would greatly appreciate !!
How is keeping a patient database on your personal computer HIPAA compliant?
I would love an effortless line counting program too, but...
Just curious if anyone has investigated that issue with this software.
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