The Downhill Flow
Posted By: Realist on 2006-01-24
In Reply to: Tired of it-need some advice sm - olddognotricks
I am so sorry you are having to put up with this. It's a crying shame. We who have the most experience and make the company and the doctor look good are the very ones who are dumped on with horse pucky the most. I might add, however, that this is the very reason that I have decided not to stay in the business for much longer, and I tell EVERY NEWBIE I EVERY COME ACROSS, LOUD AND CLEAR, RUN! DON'T START THIS PROFESSION! I tell them they will never get the respect or the dollars they deserve. Too bad for us, we found this out too late. At least I can warn the up and comers. Again, if you are looking for sympathy, you got it, sister!
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This is why our field is going downhill -
It's not going downhill but it is changing
The job is evolving into an Editor process and there is a higher-than-ever ratio of difficult dictators.
The line rates are not something you can count on moving upward but they never have been. Where money is usually made is in production with incentives and bonuses.
For me it began to go downhill when ...
the smaller companies grew larger and/or were swallowed up by larger companies. That was when I was forced to become more tied to the p.c. with "managers" looking over the shoulder.
I miss the days when the files were uploaded and downloaded and transcribed at my will within a 24 TAT. Now it seems, even as an IC, that logging in directly to the system ties me to the p.c., unable to stop in the middle of a report and return to it later, unable to do maybe 3 hours in the morning and 5 at night as long as reports are in before the 24 TAT the next morning. Now plagued with IMs and emails about everyone needs to get on and work b/c there are 175 reports on the system .... insane with account specifics being different for every doctor nevermind the templates, and tons of ESL doctors. I could do 2000 lines a day years ago before lunch and have the rest of my day to myself if I wanted. With the advancement in high-tech I'm lucky to get that many lines in 8+ hours b/c the company platform changes or "upgrades" as soon as I reach any speed on the "old" platform, and so far every platform I've worked on slows me down, lags, or you have to go through multiple screens to even begin typing. Some platforms do not have the ability to create macros (expanders), some expect you to jump through several screens looking up patient info, medications, etc., account numbers, etc. some do not allow custom dictionaries.
It all sort of reminds me of being an underpaid in-house employee but with none of the benefits, and with some of the "office politics."
Care Flow
Is is a productive platform? Any info good or bad on this platform is appreciated. Thanks
You are talking about doing over flow...
work as a service, for a hospital. That's not the same as being an employee. I work for a hospital and we are ALL at home except for the boss and whoever might be training to go home. We all access the same server to download our work. We set our voice wave for "the pool" and we all get what may come. Nobody is picking our work. We only get 2 or 3 jobs at a time, send one back, get one more, all day long. We DO send overflow out to a service, but only clinic notes. I think the original poster is talking about being an employee, not an overflow person.
Work flow
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What about my cash flow problem?
She owes me for 2 weeks work.
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They have a LOT of radiology accounts so if you are a radiology whiz, you will make great money.
I am on an account that is not overflow, it is the whole account, which might make a difference, but I know that there are about a dozen new radiology accounts starting in the next few weeks.
I have found that if I ask them questions, they answer them, which I did NOT have at my last company. That is how I found out about the new benefits and new accounts. They are also open to suggestions from the MTs which makes me feel like a valued member of a team rather than a number (I worked for the biggest until I made the move). I am just excited because one of my ideas was put into place and I actually got a thank you call and email. At the other one, I was afraid to rock the boat.
I use RadNet on one account and Meditech (Word version) on another but there are a lot of platforms from what I understand.
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No work with MQ and just checking to see how others are doing with January work flow.
Things must have gone downhill really fast. You posted the opposite on
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I'll just leave it at that, why swim against the flow
arguing with women who need all this procedures.
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