QA editors adapt more quickly, but anyone can....
Posted By: sm on 2005-10-27
In Reply to: editing - Jan
do VR if they are a decent MT. You're basically listening to the voice, making changes. If you know your stuff, you're fine, i.e. knowing the difference between "your" and "you're."
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Those who do not adapt will become extinct
You can obsess and wring your hands and post multiple threads (running off people who might otherwise support you), or you can change. The world is changing and it was here first.
Who says the rest of us don't love what we do and wish there were more quality MTs in the industry (and give advice as to how to BE a good MT), but to cry poor work ethics as the reason work is going offshore and ignore and reject the reality of the industry will drive you into therapy or into a different career...thereby accelerating the extinction of MT as it has been in the past.
I don't pretend to speak for the others on the board, but the first time I read your postings, I agreed. But now, I feel you have a different motivation, have become selfish, manic, obsessive and a bit off balanced. I can't hear what you are saying because you are getting in the way of the message.
Nuff said.
try link inside--adapt to fit your business--sm
http://www.mt-resources.com/sample_contracts.htm
We are quickly becoming ...
a Christian version of the Islamic Republic, where religion is an integral part of every aspect of life. I'm not sure what you are saying here. I would have no problem typing that if it was part of the dictation in a medical report, but I would find it very inappropriate if my employer said that or I was asked to participate. If I want to pray in public I'll go to church or an AA meeting.
what is this WE thing? this country is quickly
Run by a dictatorship, by religion and greed. WE are not rich. We live in a country run by the rich, who got that why taking money off of our labor. Look at India, divided between rich and poor. The rich have houses made of gold, the poor live off 15 dollars a month. Our dictators do not have gold houses but they have deep green pockets.
Learn a lesson quickly...
After 8 years of loyalty, I can tell you one thing for sure loyalty gets you no where.
Get some liquid Benadryl in him quickly and
People can develop allgeries suddenly and for no apparent reason and it's much easier to deal with when you have your senses about you than wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of his gasping for air!
I did in the past, got burnt out very quickly. sm
It is very difficult to do. I lasted about 5 years working 16 hour days, and by that time I was exhausted, stressed out, and my financial issues never disappeared.
It really is not worth the money to do that to yourself in my humble opinion.
And editing 100% VR, we wil quickly lose
How to quickly number med lists?
What is the quickest way to number a medication list? We have to number all of a patient's medications in a vertical list (voice recognition). - very time consuming - slowing me down. Any MT's found a fast way to number medications and put in a straight list on left margin QUICKLY? This is ridiculous. The voice recognition correctly or incorrectly gives the medications, but it is very slow numbering them and putting them in a vertical list -and we are required to do that. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks. I thought it might be good when you needed to get through quickly. NM
nm
I love mine, adjusted quickly.
But don't spill a latte in it...and the dishwasher trick doesn't work for it. I had to go out and buy a new one...and ergonomics are getting hard to find in my area!
Oops. Hit the send button too quickly.
How long before the person asking if you "want flies with that" will be from another country?
I can also understand why someone would move to another country to work because of economic reasons. We're approaching a time where the cost of a gallon of gas may be higher than the hourly minimum wage. 
Seek medical attention quickly.
It could be an allergic reaction.
I'd grab it quickly. W/o spaces you average about
15% less - so that is an excellent rate - good for you!!
No you can't survive on sex and chocolate but will die happy probably pretty quickly.
It would be a bummer to watch Johnny Dep get old and cranky anyway.
I am very real, thank you. I work quickly and efficiently. I know the terminology and when I come
across something I don't know I do my best to reference until I find it. If I absolutely cannot find it, I will send it to QA. The same goes with something I can't understand. I will listen several times and if I still can't understand it I send it on to QA for their help.
Tax guy told me because of nature of job and way computers outdate so quickly, could get new one
:+
XX,, I promise you can double that typing speed quickly SM
then triple it, and eventually quadruple it with an Expander used right. You're doing something wrong, but I assure you once you know what it is you can correct it easily and immediately start seeing the benefits having your expander do much of the typing for you.
To begin with, though, most of your increased speed is going to come NOT from inserting blocks of text standard for one dictator but rather abbreviations for the individual words, phrases, and headings you're constantly typing anyway.
For instance, I type RPSV for "reports that." It wasn't hard to remember. Variations of "report" are used constantly, so RP became report, RPS reports, RPG reporting, RPD reported. V is "that." AO is "also" for me, and F is "he", so "he also reported that" becomes FAORPDV and "he also reports that" becomes FAORSV. This is the first time I've seen those on paper; you don't memorize the long forms, just string together the constantly used short ones. Amazingly quickly your fingers remember (muscle memory?) so you don't have think about it.
Smartype is probably not the best expander but fine to start on since you have it. Later on, better programs have conversion programs that will allow you to move your abbreviations to that program.
In the meantime, go to productivitytalk.com and start reading and asking questions. If you wish, you can import a whole ready-made dictionary compiled by an MT abbreviations.
But you could also take another tack for now just as a trial. Instead of trying to use Smartype's abbreviations, if that's what you're doing, enter just a handful of your own that you can get very familiar with. I love these that I use and am happy to pass them on to anyone who wishes to try them:
Make T expand to "the"
F expand to "he"
G expand to "him"
K expand to "she"
J expand to "her"
T expand to "the"
B to "but"
Q to "who"
R to "right"
L to "left"
F to "for"
D for "and"
That's more than enough for now. If you do this, I think in a couple of days you'll be loving how a quick tap of the finger drops in all these little words so much that you'll eventually become addicted to abbreviating everything in sight--and to watching your scores on your speed tests rise and rise and rise... Best wishes.
To all the QA/editors out there
I was wondering what are some of the funny mistakes you've come across and could you give examples? Also wondering if you think the majority of mistakes made by MTs is due to laziness or just lack of knowledge. Thanks.
editors
You need to put your period inside the quotation marks, not outside. You did that not once, but twice. As an editor, you need to set an example. Alas, you simply gave the poor complaining chap more ammo.
Editors...
Your email and that of the other editor below - 3 kids under age 5, wondering why she can't get anything done - indicate what some of the MTs here suspect - that some editors are just nasty tempered space cadets.
How do you know you are being stabbed in the back? Do you feel the knife through cyber space?
I hope you feel better after you vented.
editors
Amen to that! I agree absolutely and totally 100% with you.
Editors
Wake up honey, without THEM you wouldn't have a job. If it were not for transcriptionists all of you would be history. You get a paycheck because of THEM.
MTs and editors
MTs are independent contractors and the editing position is salary. Anyone interested is welcome to send resume to jeannemichael@cox.net.
well put! - they want EDITORS
By the time you "set type"
Follow all the little idiosyncricies demanded by all the white coats
Know the doctors names "slurred" by the other white coats
Corrected the work type
and oh yes.......the latest problem
The information is NOT on the screen because it has come to us too fast (remember that TAT!)
so we have to stop and enter that.
I feel like a dam^ed type setter - not a transcriptionist.
This is NOWHERE NEAR copy-ready work.
Last doctor I typed today I had to "re do" all his sentences, edit,
correct verb tenses, pronouns.
I'm not paid enough to be their mother, English teacher, and nose wiper.
Editors/QA should always be...
hourly or salaried. If you pay an Editor by production standards, they will just fly through the work trying to make an income, thus, missing a lot of errors. I was at a company that went from salaried editors to production, simply because one or two bad apples sat at home filing their nails on the clock, thereby ruining it for everyone else who was working honestly and consistently.
pay for editors
Oh my gosh, you make $20 an hour? Can you tell me where you work? I make a little over $14 and haven't had a raise in eons...I need the money too...
Pay for QA editors
QA - could you give a heads up where to find these jobs that pay more? I'm a QA person and do good work. I have asked for a raise but was ignored (believe it or not). I'm getting very frustrated and resentful toward this company.
QA editors, this is how I would
like to be corrected (general format): (a) Here is your error. (b) Here is how I want it done (c) If this is a change, this is a notice of the change (d) If I have had to correct you on this before, consider this a warning. (e) This correction deserves some explanation, so here it is. (f) Research this first, but if you really do not understand it, contact me. There are no unnecessary remarks either way. There are no attempts to toss mean shots, because they serve no purpose. A professional QA Editor can teach a new MT a great deal, and get that newbie to work WITH her, by setting a good example in terms of professional behavior.
The 2 bad editors???
What ended up happening with these two editors? Why did you have to let them go? How exactly are they "scamming" you? How much money was the check? Are you sure they received the check? Did you stop payment on it? That would be the intelligent thing to do. There really is no information here to warrant a warning to others. This kind of sounds more like trying to give someone a hard time because of them leaving. I don't think you can give information out like you are claiming, can you? Was your company treating them fairly? In my past dealings....there is always to sides of the story and the one who is usually spouting off if the one that is in the wrong.
MT editors - could you please tell me sm
what your job entails of on a daily basIt? I have been transcribing for a long time now and I am thinking of looking into editing. What do I need to know or do to obtain a position in the editing field? TIA
I wonder if this was with editors or not
Good news for us, I guess but if they invest in this program they will want us to take less for editing and if it takes as long to edit as it does to type it, I don't see how we can take less. That is the next big fight we will have.
Sorry, but that's how my editors want me doing it.
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I consider us MTs and editors
Help editors....
I'm in the midst of an editing test. How do you make the correction above the word that needs correcting in MS Word 2000?
Any MT Editors here?
I haven’t seen many posts (here or other MT boards) regarding this position, but the ones I have seen were not very favorable. Is there anyone who does this and is happy with it? I have taken a PT position with a company to do some editing. It is a VR account. I am told that the physicians are already VR configured, and that any jobs coming to me with lots of edits should be returned to them, as the configuring may need some tweaking. I will be listening to the actual voice file while reading the report. Is there such thing as a happy MT editor? CathyB
IC EDITORS
A couple of questions for those transcriptionists who are editing as independent contractors, or those on a per-line basis.
How many lines per hour do you average in a day?
Are you paid for entire batches or only files that you have to read through and fill in blanks?
Have you worked with editing voice recognition files?
We are trying to come up with some averages for a new project we are working on.
We know VR is not accurate, we know that most docs do not train the system to use it properly, but it is a growing factor in our industry that we need to address rather than losing our clients.
If you're interested in learning more about editing VR files or have information related to same, please let me know.
About those editors....
Editors are for when you're first learning how to do this. Editors are also for when you specifically leave a blank in a report because you outright admit that you can't get a word or phrase.
Editors stop editing your work fairly early on in your career. Hopefully you don't have editors listening to all your work within 3-4 months after you first become a transcriptionist. Sometimes it takes up to 6 months, but really, there comes a point where you have to learn WHEN to ask for help, so that they can start teaching the next person down the line.
So, you need to learn to work as a transcripitionist, yet knowing that what YOU type will end up in a patient's chart, most likely without anybody else reading it except the doctor who signs the report (and we HOPE that HE/SHE actually reads it!!!!)
So yes, you need to be as close to 100% accurate as close to 100% of the time as is humanly possible.
No, NONE of us are 100% accurate 100% of the time.
We just do our very best.
And then we let it go. We know that after we have done our very best, that the ultimate responsibility rests on the doctor who signs the report. It is up to the doctor to read his/her report before signing to make sure it says what he/she meant it to say. (Don't slam me for this opinion - it is a matter of where the ultimate responsibility rests; I still try to do my 100% very best!)
As for doing our very best, that includes learning every shortcut we can learn in order to work smarter not harder.
Please see the tips I listed in a different post about how to make your autotext or glossary work for you. Common errors can be fixed automatically. Weird definitions can be remembered automatically.
One alternative to strictly typing is to maximize your glossary (some people call it autotext or expanders, it's basically all the same thing, just different names for different computer programs). Another alternative is to focus on VR (voice recognition, also known as medical editing). Maybe you're more likely to catch errors if you're correcting the computer's work instead of your own. (In my case, I find it easier to correct my own errors, but each person is different in this regard).
You can do this! Your kids can know that you're not just the chauffeur to their soccer games and the one who sleep-walks into their room at night to tuck them in! Really!
just editors...
rather
just some editors
Yes, I see why she hates editors
If this comment is representative of your editing. There are ways to point out errors without making someone feel like an idiot. These postings don't exactly need to be "edited," ya thank?
Do editors have to be certified? - nm
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QA and editors are 2 different things
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WHAT? CERTIFICATION FOR EDITORS?
"All Dictaphone transcription service partners are required to pass its rigorous certification program to ensure even higher levels of service and proficiency in speech recognition editing..."
(here is link to complete article)
http://health-information.advanceweb.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CTIID=1433
  Why doesn't MQ ever tell there is "certification" for editors?
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WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE --- "certification program"
I haven't heard anything about certifying editors, have you?
And if that's so we better get a HE^^ OF A LOT MORE MONEY!!!! doing it.
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CHRISTUS HEALTH CHOOSES MEDQUIST
CHRISTUS Health, a faith-based, not-for profit health care system comprising more than 40 hospitals, inpatient and long-term care facilities, clinics and other health care services serving more than 70 communities, has selected MedQuist as its premier vendor for documentation and speech recognition needs.
CHRISTUS Health was having challenges streamlining productivity and transcription costs. According to Robert Jacobs, CHRISTUS market information officer, a selection committee made up of HIM directors, radiology directors and physicians, evaluated vendors and selected MedQuist for its capabilities to provide front-end speech recognition and back-end speech recognition transcription services.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:OAXm4i0GEUEJ:health-information.advanceweb.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx%3FCTIID%3D1433+christus+health+medquist&hl=en
Normally editors are hired from within the
company, though I occasionally do see postings looking for editors/QA. Almost all the posts I have seen are wanting people with at least 2 years recent QA experience or 10+ years MT experience. Editing tends to pay less than MT. Some companies pay per line and ideally you should be able to edit more lines a day than transcribing, so you might even out. Some companies pay hourly, but the hourly rate is usually considerably less than what you would make as an MT. There are various kinds of editing - VR, editing offshore work where you have to edit 100% of the work and correct probably 50% of it, editing where you just fill in blanks, and then fill in blanks and 100% edit files on a regular basis to monitor quality.
Question for VR editors
Doc says arthritis in fingers needs a rest from pounding the keys so much. For those of you that do VR, do you find you have to type as much as when you transcribe all the time. Too old to change careers and prefer to stay at home, so looking for a different out in the MT vocation.
Thanks in advance
Editors: question for you
My boss keeps hiring people with no experience. I think this is beyond the Editor definition. They basically need to be taught way too much. I'm giving far too much instruction. Should I ask for more pay for when I edit these certain trainees? If so, how much. Why can't she hire anyone decent? Are there really no good people out there?
question for VR editors
What is the motivation for you to try to end our jobs for MT? If you train the computer to recognize inaudible voices, you are eliminating your own job as well as the jobs and careers of countless others. If you refused to work for low pay to edit dictators we would have a future still. No computer does this alone without human help. Please tell me why you all cooperate? You know that once it is trained, you move on to the next.
Powerscribe editors, can you help? (sm)
I've been offered a job editing via Powerscribe reports. Whatever you can tell me about this platform, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Also, is a per report rate normal for this type of editing? If so, what is a good or standard rate?
Thanks again!
Question for Editors
For those of you who edit VR, how did you learn to do this? I am strictly a Transcriptionist and am wondering how you break into editing.
Thanks!
My editors ARE TESTED
The editors for my company are tested and they are trained at 100% before they are turned "LOOSE". They also have 3% of their work audited.
Any Powerscribe editors out there...
...is it possible to make decent money on a per report or per line basis editing PS? I've used it before (in-house MT) but was paid hourly. I checked the Archives and it seemed the going rate for PS editing was 0.70 - 0.90/report. Hmmm...is it worth it?
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