That would certainly depend on the VR platform sm
Posted By: VREditor on 2008-05-19
In Reply to: IC EDITORS - Trish Merrill
I currently edit 600-700 lines per hour accurately on EditScript; however, I can not nearly do as many lines editing using Dictaphone's VR program. There are so many variables that it makes it difficult to put a "average number" out there.
I can tell you, that paying 3 cpl for editing is an insult to the qualified and experienced MT/Editor with years and years of experience.
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I guess it would depend on the platform. I get .0692 cpl at WMX. nm
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Is their platform user friendly, or does it depend on the account?
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MTSO with platform versus no platform (big message)
If a MTSO advertises that the MT works in MS Word and sends dictation by FTP, does this usually mean there will be no demographic/doctor database and the demographics will not be autopopulated?
I got into a mess with a small company (got out real quickly too). I was required to print out daily email copies of the doctors' office patient schedules (which were barely legible) and type in all information. I spent more time hunting for the correct patient through pages and pages of these schedules. Then I had about 25 pages worth of doctor's names that I would have to go through to find the attending, referring, etc. A total waste of time as I didn’t get paid for that.
I wish MTSO would give more information as to what platform they use (if any). Proprietary software is such a generic, totally useless description. Would they buy a new car that listed, "Car has gasoline operated motor?"
And for Pete's sakes, why so secretive about the pay? Give a ballpark figure. Just say, pay is between 7-12 cpl depending on skill, testing, etc. Tell me if you pay for spaces, headers, etc. It would save them time because I wouldn’t even apply for a 7 cpl job.
Before I spend an hour or two testing, I need more information from a company to be sure it is compatible for my needs. If the MTSO would spend a little time on their website detailing their platform, how they send/receive files, pay rates, how line rate is determined (spaces/no spaces) employee/IC/SE status, minimal line count, whether work pools consist of 100s of doctors, or smaller pools with 25-50 doctors etc. Having all this information on their website would save them time and the MTs time. Phoenix Medcom has a really good layout describing pretty much everything an MT would want to know before testing with them. I am just tired of testing with a company and then finding out the job wasn’t exactly suited to my needs. 
Platform versus non-platform (templates)?
I've been working for MTSOs for years now, using their templates which sometimes cause productivity problems (macro issues, etc). I'm wondering if productivity is increased when working on a structured platform, such as one that a national company provides for its transcriptionists? I've never used a platform, but it would seem that all one needs to do is straight type onto the screen and the platform program takes care of margins, page breaks, etc?
Any thoughts (as well as companies who are hiring who use platforms) would be appreciated. Thanks
It should depend on the law. sm
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It would depend on whether (sm)
the boy had any real driver training. I had driver education at high school and it was a semester-long class. I recently moved to a state where one day of watching videos and two days with 3-hr driving sessions constitutes driver training. All they require after this is for the parents to say they drove 40 hours with them. I never knew anyone in school who rolled a vehicle and since moving here I've met three teenagers who have!! These kids all live in town, but rolled the vehicles out on rural roads. How long has he had his license? Is he driving a car he bought himself? What kind of grades does he have? Who else will he be giving a ride to? I'd weigh these things out, then make your decision. One additional thing I would consider is whether your daughter would be the one to say "Stop this car and let me out!"
**would depend
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This might depend...sm
This might depend on whether you are considered an employee or an independent contractor. As an independent contractor, they don't have to pay you if you don't do any work.
Something like that would depend on whatever
your company's policy is. Everyone is different.
That's because they depend on us....sm
....to correct their mistakes in spelling. Lazy suckers!
it really does depend on your company
All those questions depend on the company you work for. If I want to get paid for time when there is no qa, then I type. If I am being paid salary then yes, when there is no qa, I type. I do not type superfast because my parts are worn down from too many years of production typing and I am unable to produce 250 lines an hour anymore and so I cannot be held to that. That is why I am in QA in the first place, because I sure could make more money on production transcribing than I do in qa. None of us can tell you what your company expects though. So you are kind of SOL about what the facts are, aside from what anecdotal stuff you get from us. Good luck!
No, but it may depend upon account
No, I don't think so. I just got a job offer, and I can only work with satellite Internet. I have no land line; therefore, I cannot do Dictaphone C-phone or Lanier accounts. I only have cell phones. MDI-MD does not (yet) have many accounts that can be accessed as WAV-file accounts, and what they have seem to be heavily (i.e., 60-75% ESL!).
So to answer your question, I don't think MDI-MD specifically requires you to have unlimited long distance any more, but if you have it, you may be able to get better accounts.
If long distance charges are an issue, have you looked into Vonage or other Internet phone solutions? Your ISP has to have fast enough speed to do it, and right now our satellite speed is just under what will work well. But if you have fast enough speed, check into it. It's a flat rate every month, and I think it's now down to $29.99 for unlimited. If you have a friend who has it, ask them about it, and they can tell you. Also, they will get a referral fee (a month free or something) for referring you.
Hope this helps!
Well, that would depend whether you are Employee or IC.
This is how I see it..
If you are an employee, you would have to finish your 8-hour shift in the shift you agreed upon. You can not stop after 6 and start dinner, etc. You may be able to stop, make dinner etc, and go back and finish your 2 hours if you talk to you supervisor or boss about it and work it out with them; otherwise, you are supposed to complete the full 8 hours in your agreed upon shift.
If you are an IC and meet your production obligation in 4 hours, you can be done for the day and have fulfilled your obligation for the day.
Hope this helps.
I guess it would depend...
on how shallow a person is. My last name, thanks to my husband, is the name of something we used to do to each other in school (involving a wedgie)! Yuck. I accepted it, moved on.
would depend on your age and if you have a family...
there's a ROI ratio that has to be considered. What will med school cost? Don't forget to figure in lost wages while going to school. Don't believe full time med school and part time MT can be combined...but maybe I'm wrong. Also if you have a family, you better think long and hard. You never get your kids' childhood back. It's not like you can schedule them for when it's convenient....Personally, I thought about med school, but did kids instead and boy did I make the right choice!
I say it should depend on the maturity...sm
of the child and their level of responsibility of keeping up with things. My 6-year-old had her ears pierced last summer because she kept asking for several months to do it, but we ended up letting the holes close up because she couldn't keep up with earrings. I even tried the screw-on backs and she lost them in 2 days.
I didn't get my ears pierced until I was 13.
Probably would depend on a lot of variables.
what I would do. I would have to be in the situation, I guess.
Well - that would depend on many things sm
What VR platform?
Volume of work?
Type of work?
What is/was the rate for transcription?
There are other factors; however, some MTSO and Nationals go 5-6 cents less than they charge to transcribe. So, if the fee is 18 cpl to transcribe, it would be 13 cpl to edit VR.
Hope this helps. Personally, I think 7.5 cpl is way too low to start.
It must depend on the state, and if you have
then they must have found you to be dishonest in the past. The trend is to trust your transcriptionist. She can do what she wants, but she is only cheating herself if she does not charge enough. She is going to find at 11 cpl, she'll be lucky to make a profit, especially when she gets in to the issues of getting paid through the office. I have a lot of experience in these matters and the account I do like my work, do not QA (ridiculous) because if the office knew enough about transcription, they would know that your time is valuable. She asked the question, and I gave an answer. Like it or not, docs pay and well as long as they know you are doing a good job! Oh to ponder.... If she wants to charge per 65 character, then she should be charging 16 cpl, the going rate.  Hey OP, give it a try... if they complain it costs them too much, you'll know, and then reduce your rate, but keep it simple, make it fun... These people on here having you spending money on silly count programs have been typing for pennies for Nationals. Don't let them fool ya'..... Good luck.
Pay will depend on many factors
My first year as an MT, I made $20k and that was at 6.5 cents per line. There are tons of jobs out there were you can likely quickly move up and earn more money.
The job will take dedication and the money will not just fall into your lap the first year or two but you can make a good living as an MT. The choice is yours!!!!
I think a lot of that will depend on the company you are with. sm
whether they cheat lines, how many ESLs, etc. as to whether it is possible to get it up or not. i used to type 250-300 lph, but recently tried two different acute care nationals, one mentioned here often, and never could get more than 100 lph no matter how hard i tried.
i would think with 30+ years exp, your clue will need to be set up some Expanders and you could probably reach it. i take typing test online occasionally just for fun to see where i stand. it helps build my momentum and concentration as well so maybe try something like that to work on getting your speed up. also, speed up the sound file on any dictators you know you can understand at faster speeds. this alone doubled my line count because i tend to type faster if they speak faster.
Must depend on the area. sm
I have had their cable and roadrunner for about 5 years and service is always excellent here.
It may depend on the company, but
which you would anyway because once it is in Meditech, you no longer need the Word document.
Who would be the wiser? 
I think that will depend on what your cpl rate is...sm
I am paid a very high line rate;therefore 300 lines an hour would equate to a higher hourly rate for me. There may lie the confusion for some.
So, if you are paid 8 cpl and do 300 lines an hour that would equate to $24 per hour, whereas the same 300 line paid at 13 cpl equates to $39 per hour.
It does depend on the account.
I've worked Escription on 3 different accounts and all 3 are very different. I am impressed at how well the Escript picks up on reports and follows most account specifics. It all depends on the accuracy of the Transcriptionist as the program learns the reports and specs. If it learns it correctly, it will continue to spit it out correctly. If you have lots of account spec mistakes coming from the transcriptionist or different transcriptionists are not being consistent, then you'll have problems with the VR.
Of my 3 accounts, one is awesome. I easily make over 600 edited lines an hour and that is including taking a short break to walk around, refill my drink and use the bathroom. Average reports are between 50-70 lines each, all AC. The other one (which didn't last long) was averaging about 280-320 lines an hour and I did everything the same, all clinic and a waste of my time. The next one is also all basic 4 and I average around 400 with it being a new account and I know there is room for improvement and a lot of accout spec mistakes, which I blame on the other transcriptionist on the account, not VR.
You can make decent money on using VR by practicing you shortcuts, save expansions on the most common mistakes (one of mine being that the VR never picks up "10 point review of systems", etc, especially practice the punctuation shortcuts and the alk K and shift alt K.
Don't give up on it. If anything, give another account a try.
It would depend on what the hospital uses.
Every account/facility is different.
Firstly, it would depend on the accounts, etc.
Bad accounts - more surely yes, paid by the hour, at the very least $15/hour, with full benefits.
Good accounts, you would most certainly want by the line as some ladies on here claim 2000 lines + a day. Seems those people would lose out.
To make a more even playing field, I would go with hourly. It will probably never happen as long as our sister MTs in India, etc., are willing to work for literally 'pennies,' such as 2 or 3 cents/line...?
$225 month.Must really depend on company!
I want your electric company!!
That would depend on such things as what system they use
for transcription, is it fast or slow, what part of the country you are located, are there any duties you must do that is time consuming, like looking up addresses for copies, etc.
I just turned down a hospital employee job for 12 cpl and 18 cpl on holidays. The system was way too slow and cumbersome, to many "secretarial" duties involved when being paid on production, and a few other reasons. The highest line count an MT can get is 200 lph. I said no thank you!
I currently produce 350-400 lph on a very fast system.
Like I said, it all depends on what is involved.
Best of luck to you!
Might depend on the number of doctors you have...
Sometimes acute care you have literally hundreds of doctors and you never get used to them. Might be the same for clinic, but sometimes with clinics you can get a limited number of doctors, get really used to them, make a lot of normals, and save yourself a lot of grief. Good luck whichever you choose.
It may depend on the type of work?
If it is extremely easy dictation, i.e. clinic notes, than it may be worth our while as MTs with years of experience. I have almost 20 years experience but I'm making 7 cents for extremely easy work. Just a thought...
I guess that would depend on the usage. sm
I worked with a gal once who literally pounded and stomped her foot pedal. The hospital replaced it twice in 6 months. After the second time, she was told she would have to pay for her own. I'm easy on mine and have had it for 10 years.
I would think it be depend on the type of form.
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It will depend on what your employer sets it at.
If your employer pays 65 characters plus spaces, they can set the parameters to count it that way.
That would depend on which expander you got. See inside.
Here is an excellent site for making shortcuts, regardless of what program you use:
http://home.earthlink.net/~agjon/abczrule.htm
Must depend on the state. I am not required
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It would totally depend on your company.
You need to have a talk with them. Each and every company is different in this regard. Are you an employee??? If so, FMLA is the way to go, your job is protected that way. Hope you get this worked out and get to feeling better.
It would certainly depend on that company's/hospital's HR policies. nm
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Probably will depend on what kind of experience, and how long she has been away from it. NM
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Line counter that does not depend on MS Word??
I had a computer crash. After I reformatted my computer, I no longer have Word, only WordPerfect. All I counted lines with before was Word's statistics, lines with spaces. WordPerfect does not give lines with spaces. I have looked at several line count utilities and ALL so far expect you to have Word installed on your computer. They use Word and just report the line count to you (so what would be the point of purchasing a program to do that....just use Word!!!). I need an inexpensive reliable line count utility that does NOT require Word. Thanks.
I think it will depend on where you live and the going rate in your locale.
It may depend on what format the files are in, meaning you may have to dink around with it. But it
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That would depend on the employer's set up. Word can be interfaced with another program, sm
in that, Word would be running remotely, but in conjunction with another program. If this is the case, the documents would be saved on the employer's server and not on any drive on your pc as a Word document. If you using Word exclusively, when saving a document it would be stored on your computer's hd and/or a cd.
Wouldn't it depend how fast/slow dr dictates,
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platform?
on my platform you can do a control/+ (the one near the backspace) to enlarge the text...
What platform do you use?
I am bored, and trying to get aquanited to the boards, so I am posting a little spree here.
What platform do you use? I use Extext by Dictaphone. Like it so far.
How can they tell? Which platform?
Besides, it's not canned text. LOL That's a feature in Meditech. If you use an expander, it's an "expansion". Those are two different things there. Isn't it open to interpretation? If I were in your shoes, I'd download the trial version of ShortHand just to see if it worked and to see if they could detect it. It's asinine to not be able to use expanders. Why wouldn't the company want the work done faster and potentially more accurately? I know there are some really long words that I have to stop to remember how to spell, so those are in my expander.
WOW!! Do you really think that? Platform is what
is used to type. You must be new to the biz. Also you cannot work for Amphion. You would know if you did.
Different platform
I'm w/ Baltimore office, still working on INET. Hearing that won't be for long, not many accounts left on it.
EP-1 Platform
Can anyone tell me about the EP-1 platform for spheris?
what platform is it that they use?
was it easy to learn?
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