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Start out not charging anyone anything but time.  Everyone who joins contributes a skill to the organization such as marketing, PR, etc.  It costs nothing to do e-mail newsletters, just time and some people to write for it.  Online meetings on Yahoo or MSN groups would be nothing to do.

Also getting a website can be pretty cheap if a few members would be willing to design it.  Everyone has a friend of a friend who has this business or that.  A lot of times, especially in the case of smaller businesses, they are willing to trade small services for exposure and advertising.  You would be amazed.

I used to work in Marketing for nonprofits before deciding to stay home as an MT. I also still do consulting work.  I am all for a new organization and would love to participate in any way I could to back to representing what "they" were supposed to.

Send me an e-mail.  We'll chat. 

I like your idea.  

I have no idea which FTP server it is.  I was sent the link to the server and instructions on how to obtain files.  I have talked to QA and she said she also believes it is a permission issue.  I am headed to actually meet her and a few other in the company in a few weeks.  So, hopefully, we will get it all worked out then.  For now I just email her every morning the listing of the .wav files I downloaded and she erases them on her end.  She says she does not mind and she knows I will be in her office in a few weeks anyway. 

Thanks for all the help.  I will google that and see what comes up.  BTW how do I find out which FTP server it is I use?  It just says ftp then a bunch of numbers. 

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How is this for an idea--Buy a white paint pen from a craft store and then coat with clear nail polish or something like polyurethane.  I do not know if this would work or affect the feeling of the keys (just thinking out loud here), so definitely would try it out on a piece of hard plastic first.

1.  Large and small health care facilities, public, private and military, pay billions of dollars for transcription of their health care documentation.  These costs are passed on to patients and tax payers. 
2.  Lack of Americans in the medical transcription work force is causing potential American jobs to be sent offshore. 
3.  Voice recognition technology is nowhere near ready to be an efficient solution for health care facilities with regular turnover of dictators (teaching hospitals, clinics, VA medical centers). 
4.  Medical Transcription Service Organizations (MTSOs) advertise voice recognition as a way to reduce transcription costs to facilities, but are in reality cutting labor costs to compensate. 
5.  Vital medical record and patient information is being sent overseas, where security is always an issue. 

I propose to resolve all of these issues in the following manner: 

1.  Provide a standard framework for dictated hospital and clinic documents utilizing current dictation styles. 
2.  Educate new dictators in their impact on costs and the billing cycle, and provide instruction and tools for more efficient dictation.  Provide immediate and regular feedback on performance. 
3.  A portion of the savings will be passed on to local community or technical colleges to provide medical transcription training programs.  
4.  MTSOs will also contribute to MT training programs in their area. 

I've calculated that such a plan could potentially save 50% of current transcription costs nationwide.  Better dictation practices will reduce the number of lines being dictated per report, reducing the time necessary to transcribe dictation and improving transcription efficiency.  A more standardized style will reduce time spent dictating and, as a bonus, aid in the voice recognition capture process and improve that technology’s application in medical documentation.

Local community colleges and technical schools will benefit, as well as the students that represent American jobs kept here. 

If you agree, please follow the link, create a login and vote!  Thanks!

Ok, if they are persistent in using tapes, then if they have a STAT report and cannot tell you what tape and where at, then charge by the hour to find the report.  Say $25 for finding STAT reports.  Back in the days, my clients would always keep a log of who is on what tape for both of our sakes!  Now, they can tell me what time the appt is and I can narrow it down considerably for how the docs dictate. 

Then for the actual typing of the report, personally if my client does not abuse the STAT system, I do not charge them anything more.  But, if they do abuse it, then I implement double line rate charge for all STAT reports. 

Good luck!