Question for folks who QA/Edit
Posted By: using Escription/Editscript on 2006-01-07
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I'm an IC QA person for a company who uses Editscript. I spend precious time writing down job# and calculating the number of lines for each report. Is this system not capable of tracking the number of reports I edit or the number of lines?
Seems like the employer would prefer a software that tracks this info so they can ensure that the IC's are billing accurately. Any opinions on this?
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That's why we edit it. nm
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they should edit their own.
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Not only do I edit everything I read........sm
My husband says I "type" in my sleep !! Jeezz.... like 8 hours a day isn't bad enough! 
Don't know the average, but I get 13 cpl to edit VR. nm
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Mine really is 2 - because I EDIT!
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EDIT? Since when did we have the education
that the physician does and where do you draw the line??
Edit Dictionary
Click on Tools, Options, Spelling & Grammar. On the Custom Dictionary window, select CUSTOM.DIC then click Dictionaries (to the right). When Custom Dictionary window opens, click Edit. Find the word you added and delete it. Save the file.
Depends on if doing 100% edit or not.
if you have to listen 100% and you have bad MTs, then it will be hard to get.
I'm sorry that you have crappy QA. I wish I had you to edit. sm
A good QA will not do that. Where are you working that you have such bad QA personnel? I'm not wanting to go to that company, lol.
Hope it gets better and you get helpful mentors.
Can expanders help if you mostly edit
reports rather than transcribe? That is what I do the most of.
You may be able to edit faster than
transcribe, but you are still doing twice the amount of lines for the same pay. After some time, the VR will start to recognize more terms and require less input. At that time, you may not be needed at all on those accounts, or you will be asked to accept less money. Time will tell!
Who better to edit reports
than a doctor? It's a nice thought and I'd love to have a doctor as my QA person! Unfortunately, editors aren't paid very well. Most make less than $20 per hour. The whole medical transcription industry has taken a major hit in pay thanks to off-shoring and AHDI (aka AAMT - which was supposed to be pro-MT, but instead is pro-greedy business owner). Also, voice recognition has cut our pay. Sometimes it even takes longer to edit a poorly worded voice file, but we are paid 3-4 cents per line.
If we can fight the off-shoring of all confidential patient information/medical records and cuts in pay for VR, the pay might eventually return - but I doubt it.
I think this happens a lot. Usually, the folks
Some of you people are basketcases.
I wonder why there are so many folks
compose an email that is not riddled with misspelled and misused words? I get emails everyday from a workflow coordinator who leaves the letters 'ed' or 'd' off of almost every word that should have it...Example: "The work has -increse- in the last few days." -incomplete sentences, missisng commas, etc.
It's ridiculous. I have managers who send out poorly composed emails as well. Unbelievable!
You might want to try these folks
I don't know if you've found anything yet, but you might want to try a company called Transcription Matchmaker. They found me a job a year ago when all I had was dial up. They find out what your requirements/specialties are and then match you with a company that best fits you. I've now been with the same company they found for me 10 months ago and I am happy with my job. I hope they can help you.
So now we know, folks, why so many MTs - sm
never get so much as a response when they apply for the literally THOUSANDS of MT jobs we see online every single day.
YouTube is not only a fun and entertaining website, it is also proving to be an amazingly POWERFUL TOOL, and I think that power has only just begun to be tapped.
Now there is one way to get the word out about MT. If you have the capabilities to make YouTube video (or your kids do), the word about fraud, ID theft, & American job loss can be spread.
IC folks
Hey there all you Indepedent contractor folks. Just want to take a quick poll and see if you are happy being independent. I am thinking of the making the jump over from employee to IC. Just want to see and get a quick glance and see if you are happy or not so happy with being IC.
Welcome! I like seeing new folks here
it's great to get some fresh perspectives or see how MTs in the business are doing.
Excuse me but isn't your job to edit reports?
What would you rather spend your day doing???? If you are an editor I would think editing would be your job!
Couldn't think of anything intelligent to say, so you edit?
What a dimwit!
Edit Script, my first time doing VR
 What is the average line count some of you get with VR??? Any suggestions this is my first job without straight typing?
I'm well aware we edit..but someone on here stated
How the heck do you edit a typo??
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I, too, edit Indian files ; they are getting better! sm
While sometimes there is something funky, I have to say that they are getting better and better all the time. When they first started on the account, yeah, they were bad; however, it has only been about 4 to 5 months and have improved 10 fold.
QA persons edit. If it is 100% listen, that
depends on the MT and on the account. Usually phys ther reports are lengthy (and boring), but not hard, but you do have to know the terms. I do not do editing by the line. I would say 500 lph is upward thinking. I know years ago when I edited by the line (then being paid 6 cpl), I can say absolutely that I never earned more than $12 an hour (that was years and years ago). I had Indian MTs though and the worst of the worst ESL dictators but I swore then, never again.
Line pay is unfair to QA/editors but many companies try to squeeze the blood from a turnip. There is much to do in QA.
BTW, you put NM on your post making me think there was nothing in it
I think it takes longer to edit VR.
When you type, you start with a blank page. Excellent and taught that way. Editing can cause the eyes to get lazy - medical words tend to start looking like medical words. I think it takes more of an eye to find errors. I have done VR and did not like using hot keys. I guess I'm from the old school.
Im sure you are a peach to edit but I don't train, sorry
Im sure you are a peach
Independents who must edit their own work
I spent a few minutes reading the thread re QA complaints that MTs do not adequately edit/proof their work. As an independent contractor with my own clients I must proof my own reports and be responsible for my own product. The buck stops here.
I worked for a national once for a grand total of 3 months. It was not to my liking at all. First of all,let me say this, my clients have never heard of BOS. I have been an independent for 11 years and not one of them knows anyone by the name of BOS. I prefer to use the Oxford grammar site if I have any questions re grammar, punctuation, etc. Also, I ask my clients how they want their reports to be punctuated and edited. The client is the ALWAYS right, regardless of BOS. I will suggest certain punctuation and grammar, but if they insist on having it a certain, well so be it. They are paying me to transcribe their reports the way they want them done.
My 3 month experience with the national and their red/yellow highlighting happy, BOS addicted QA department, had me running for the hills and back to my own clients, which of course was much more profitable. I am quite computer literate, can navigate the internet, Google and even read a reference book.
In my opinion, if QA could find a way that was a little less like a dissaproving school teacher and more like a mentor, then perhaps the MT's would be more appreciative and welcome any assistance offered.
Yes - go to Tools, Options, then Edit tab
On the column on the right side, unclick "when selecting, automatically select entire word."
Does anyone edit Nuance Dragon
I have a physician who would like me to transcribe from handwritten progress notes, but I am wondering if I should invest in a VR program to make this easier on me. I am wondering if anyone uses this software as an MT? All opinions are welcome including through e-mail! 
what is good hourly for edit/MT
got offered $13-15 an hour - part time, no benes, driving 50 minutes round trip, to do editing after dictations are sent to outside MTSO, occasional MT stat reports, personal reports, etc. I thought that was kind of low (14 yrs experience). Confirm or re-educate me please.
I would like to edit Indian work
what companies hire you to edit work from India? I have never been without work, but would be interested in doing some of this editing. If you know of companies, please post them. thanks
Client wants to start VR..Wants me to edit...sm
Ok, whew, I've researched until I'm blue on this one. Learning a lot here.
I have a question for you all. I have a potential client who wants to start recording his dictation with Dragon Naturally Speaking and then have me do the editing.
I'm just not getting this. Is there a MTSO that provides both VR and file transfer where I can edit? Is there an obvious answer to this, and I'm just so new to this field I'm not seenig it? How would I get both the word document and voice file to me so that I can edit it remotely?
Any numbers to call or pointers would be great!
I edit to make it 100% accurate....
You want lineage as well as speed.....I would do Hemoglobin is 13, hematocrit is 45, and platelets are 200,000 (whatever is in the CBC). I do the same for the chemical profile. Sodium is 135, potassium is 4.2, chloride is ...etc....
but they have to say *is* plus *and* for me to do that. I will never just insert extra words to inflate, but the word *is* - if they are dictating that to you...that is 2 more character spaces.....more is better for you.
Sometimes MDs want them separated. I have a couple of dictators what want individual sentences. Hemoglobin is 13. Hematocrit is 45. Platelets are 200,000. I usually give them what they want.....as long as it is 100% accurate.
I get paid less to edit than to MT. I shouldnt
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Flyingfingers, when you add or edit an entry...SM
there's a box on the bottom left called "Tags." At the end of your entry where you don't want a space, open that and insert "No Space."
Hazard of the job to edit EVERYTHING we read.
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When US MTs refuse to edit their garbage
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You are so right. Our pay goes down from same folks who are charging us more when we
Right now McDonald's in our town starts employees at $8/hour and pays benefits and some school benefits.
I have worked 30 years in transcription and make less now than I did in 1985. That's 20 years ago. I know more and earn less. In fact I am a fraction above poverty level.
If you don't think MQ is getting ready to take us all below poverty level right down there with Mexico City, just hide and watch. Or rather, sit here and think you are with a "good" company. I didn't, because they are making millions in profit off your hard work and not sharing a penny of it with you.
In the old days an employer spread the wealth of the company with the employees who made it happen. This group has never heard of the concept.
Those City folks
I can really relate to your situation and wanted to tell you this story.
I live at the base of a mountain. There is an RV place out here and every winter the hunters camp and .....leave aggrevation everywhere (garbage).
Yesterday i drove the 15 miles to town to the post office where they know everyone by name. I was packaging my book to mail and was listening to this conversation: A gentleman handed a change of address form to the Postmaster. He says," You just moved in that new house on the hill last fall. Is everything okay"?
Naturally everyone looks that direction. The gentleman says " We don't like that housing developement on the hill. There is way too much snow".
Continuing with his story: My wife had the kids were in the SUV and the road was covered with snow and ice. (duh, it is all winter long). She had to stop because of the herd of Elk standing on the hill in the middle of the road. She slid back down the hill and wouldn't drive up again until I came home from work".
So i have asked my husband for a snow maker!!!!!! Maybe they will all move back to the city. At the base of this hill, a herd of Elk always graze in the field. There have been many occassions i drive the grandkids that direction to watch. The 3-year-old asks to me take him to see the funny cows.
So if anyone has a spare Snowmaker please send it to me.....I would love to drive the rest of the city folk out of there!! 
The world needs more folks like you 2...
You both just added a big ole jewel to your crowns in Heaven...you're awesome!!! Congratulations...the best of luck and much, much happiness in your marriage...
That's more than my folks did, or my husbands.
I think that you thinking you "put yourself through college" when your parents were paying your tuition and rent kind of says this is the pot calling the kettle black.
Golly, some folks just have to have the last
word, 'eh? I've been following this thread and just waiting for someone to blame the dog owner for the dog nails, or even the dog!! Unreal!
A lot of folks are complaining about MT pay
and not being able to make enough money. I personally don't think the problem lies so much with how many cpl we get, but the fact that we have to transcribe dictators who obviously have no regard for the person doing the transcription. They seem to think it quite proper to eat, chew gum, have a conversation with someone in the background, lay the mic down and dictate or speaker phone, dictate on a cell phone, in a crowded room, and a host of other things that make transcription very, very difficult. When you throw in a whole slew of ESLs, there goes your money. 
Question for QA folks
Quick question for QA. When an MT flags a report because of something simple like no date of consultation given, does QA generally get paid for all the lines on that report. I have a dictator who is very long, generally 100+ lines, and never gives the date of consultation, otherwise great dictator. No blanks. So unless it is dictated the same day the patient is admitted, I leave that field blank which automatically sends it to QA. QA has never once gotten back to me on this and on pulling up old reports it looks to me like they just go back in and put the general coding for the auto feed, though no date is provided. Since it is continuous with this doc it seems like a big waste of time and money not to get some instruction back on sending this directly to the client. I am wondering if this is just easy lines for QA and then if it shows up against me as far as editing. I know all companies are different, just wondering what the rule of thumb is. By the way, I have asked for feedback from QA multiple times and never get a response either way. Thanks.
Another question for QA folks
I typed "laparoscopy fundoplication" instead of laparoscopic. Would you count this as a misspelled medical word or typo? Thanks.
What about this scenario, folks!
What do you think of a manager of many MTs, who shares intimate details with each of us regarding her situation as a wife as well as sharing details of other MTs with each other, some extremely complicated and highly personal, which I believe were given to her in confidence. Then, having her turn into a professional zealot and alienate us with her emotionless response to us which is such a contradiction to prior interactions that it leaves us spinning and feeling as if we do not know her at all.
I have come upon this before early in my career. And I would say that changing ths subject in the conversation is the answer so to not end up in this web. What do you think though? It is awkward and confusing.
She is new at supervision and maybe it can be chocked up to that but she holds a lot of power over us and some whom she confided in during long emotion-filled conversations, word has it, she has turned against to the point they had to transfer to another department.
It is placing a shadow over the job for me 
Folks on here exceptional!
thanks so much for that!
Where do you folks get these amounts???
I find it hard to believe that a lot of the MTs on this board are making over 20.00 an hour. The state of MT is in BAD shape with outsourcing, EMR taking MT jobs, etc. I'm having a hard time believing that some of you are making those high amounts. If is is true, where do you live and where can I sign up? My company is hiring MTs with many years experience at 10.20 an hour.
I think you are asking the wrong folks...
...We are trying to figure out how to become independent, so we can make better than overseas pay.
A question for the QA folks
I realize that every company/employer is different and some want verbatim transcribed. At my company, it's never been specified, and so sometimes I trust my judgement to change things as I see fit, and other times, I flag a questionable item and explain my thought process to QA. Oftentimes, when I do the latter, QA just leaves the questionable item as dictated, and does not respond directly to me regarding my question, which makes me feel ignored. This leaves me feeling frustrated and feeling like the report may have returned to the doctor not 100% accurate.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about, but it's not necessarily the best example from a cesarean section note:
Rectus muscles were then separated in the midline and the peritoneum identified, tented up and entered sharply with Metzenbaum scissors. The perineal incision was then extended superiorly and inferiorly, with good visualization of the bladder.
The bolded word is obviously incorrect and should be peritoneal. Do you think QA and everyone else concerned would appreciate if I just used my brain and fixed this without taking anyone else's time, or is there a chance that using my judgement and changing it would come back to haunt me if this report were pulled for a QA review and someone saw that I didn't transcribe what was dictated?
I'm not a newbie. I'm been in the MT field for almost 8 years.
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