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Keystrokes employees using Meditech

Posted By: Would like info on 2007-04-01
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Are you guys meeting your line count in 8 hours or less and making a good salary?  How long did it take you, after starting, to meet your line count?  Thanks.


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Keystrokes/Meditech

I am fairly new to Keystrokes.  I am on a Meditech account that specifies no cutting and pasting.  I have always typed in word and pasted into Meditech, much faster and easier.  How would they know if I cut and paste?  Does anyone at KS do this on a Meditech account.  I don't want to get in trouble, but using just Meditech, I don't think I will ever get over 200 lph.


Thanks.


Keystrokes and Meditech info please
I am going to work for Keystrokes on the Meditech platform and now I read horrid things about the platform.  I DON'T do well with donating my time to set up reports or to send them, and this appears to be the premise of Meditech...  Can somebody enlighten me?  Please tell me there is not a lot of wasted time (aka... DONATED TIME) on the meditech platform.  Thanks
Does anyone know, is the Meditech program with Keystrokes compatible sm
with Vista?  I am thinking of getting a laptop, and I found out that Dell will downgrade you to XP, but they charge you $99 more
I work on a Meditech account (not with Keystrokes)
and they have also prohibited cutting and pasting.  Just because it looks okay on your screen doesn't mean it comes out okay on their end, I guess.
I just started with Keystrokes full time and am on a Meditech account. sm

I would not call it my favorite platform by any means -- I think it is rather slow and cumbersome -- but with the addition of ShortHand and getting used to how things are done, I am picking up speed and hope to be at my normal level soon.   One of the pluses to Meditech is that you can access the patient's chart and see other reports dictated, plus lab reports, x-rays, etc. 



I work at Keystrokes using a C-phone and Meditech. Admittedly, I wasn't sm

fond of Meditech when I first started using it, but now I do not mind it at all.  You can look up patient data such as medications, prior reports, etc., which can be quite helpful.  And Keystrokes uses a formula to count the lines which I think turns out very favorable for the MT.  I don't think that must be my C-phone account, thought, because I'm pretty sure there are more than 35% ESLs!


Good luck to you.  Don't let the naysayers get to you.  Try it for yourself and see.  It might be a great fit. 


Can't speak for all Keystrokes employees but

It was my first experience with at-home transcription and I felt underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated.  As soon as something better came along, I left.


I am working as an IC now and I am much happier. Of course, I am very fortunate that my husband has good benefits/insurance so I don't have to worry about that.


Questions for Keystrokes employees--

Keystrokes contacted me early last week about employment and sent me all the pertinent papers to sign and return.  I faxed everything back and was told they would be getting an ID for me for the account I'll be working on.  I haven't heard anything else.  Should I be concerned, or does it just take awhile for things to get moving? I realize there's been a holiday too which slows things down.


 


Question for Keystrokes employees
How many lines do you average per payroll, and how long have you been working on your particular account?
I would not say that Keystrokes treats their employees well...
and I doubt that they are over $50 M in revenue. When I was at Keystrokes, they had a few radiology accounts and clinics. This was two years ago. Stranger things have happened - maybe they are bigger than Transcend.


Keystrokes employees, could I ask some questions? sm

I got an offer from Keystrokes and had some questions for others employed there. 


How is the family health insurance?  Expensive?


I will be working on the account that is 80% ESL, easy to meet line requirements?


When the recruiter talks about your 'liscense' please what does that mean?  I'm not entirely clear on that one.


I should be getting my paperwork in a couple days then getting started.  I'm looking forward to working with you all. 


Keystrokes.. any feedback from current employees?
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To Keystrokes employees: Has anyone heard anything about when a new, less expensive insurance (sm)
is starting?  I was told by a valid source it was to be February 1 but it apparently didn't happen then.  Has anyone else heard a different date?  TIA.
There are two types of Meditech. One is Meditech Magic, which has a blue sm
screen and is like WP5.1. It is a bit cumbersome but not bad once you get used to it.

The other is Meditech Client, which is WONDERFUL. It opens into Word and populates the demographics for you.

Neither are bad once you get used to them. I make great money using Magic and a lot of others complain about it.
Oh for sure employees, but not too often for statutory employees. Sorry for confusion.
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Attn: Any Transcend employees or former employees
I have been offered a job with Transcend, but I am not completely sure about it yet and I need some input from you guys.  I have read positives and negatives regarding this company but alot of it was pretty old information.  Can anyone give me some recent feedback on them?    Thanks very much!!!
They have IC and employees, employees get benefits.
Good company. I am very happy there.
Does anyone like it at Precyse? New employees? old employees? nm
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Did Keystrokes sell to Transcend? I thought Keystrokes was buying up companies sm
but I heard from another service owner that they sold out to Transcend. Anyone know if that happened?
keystrokes ad..can someone tell keystrokes their banner ad needs a hyphen...quality-minded
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Did Keystrokes sell to Transcend? I thought Keystrokes was buying sm

small companies but another service owner told me that she heard that Keystrokes sold to Transcend.  Is this true? 


I posted this down below but meant to post it as a new thread.  Before I apply with them, I would like to know as I left Transcend a few months ago and do NOT want to get back into that mess.


Not only that, but I would MUCH rather work for Keystrokes than Spheris as Keystrokes doesn't

Meditech
Will anyone having typed on Meditech system please tell me what it's like?  Is it user friendly?  Thank you very much.
Meditech
Meditech is okay once you are used to it AND if you can use Instant Text rather than those clumsy combinatio keys to do your macros. I think it has improved since I used it about 6 years ago. It is a BIG change from WP or MSWord, sort of like taking a giant step backwards.
meditech
I thank you for all of your comments. I do use Instant Text so would definitely want to be able to use that with Meditech system.  But it actually doesn't sound like something I'd really like doing, from what I've read.  More negatives than positives so far.
Meditech Rad
I use Meditech for radiology for windows, have been for 10 years.  Over the years we have upgraded the program several times.  I think it just depends on if the hospital is up to date on the programming.  I took a second account that used Meditech and I don't know if the hospital was behind or the MTSO just did not understand the program like I do.  For rad, after each report you do have to go through a series of screens before the report is saved.  But that is just me.  Another hospital could be different.
Meditech
Anybody know which companies use Meditech?
meditech
Spheris uses Meditech.
MediTech

I have been working in Meditech with Citrix Server now for 2-1/2 years and it's the pits.  Even with new updates all the time, it will never compare to today's modern platforms.


 


Right..I do ERs on Meditech..(nm)


Is this Meditech?
If it is a slow platform, then you'll need at least 9.5 cpl just to make a go of it!  
Meditech
I have been working on the Meditech platform for one month, so I am fairly new. I am averaging only 100 to 125 lines per hour. I still have to refer to the instructions for things like, for example, how to close up spaces. It is a bit inconvenient to have to go through a bunch of screens before I start typing. I guess I would have to say I do not like the Meditech platform! I do have easy dictators, though. I am not a newbie; I have over 20 years of medical transcription experience, by the way.
Meditech
Place you a sticky note or short note pad to your monitor with the function key commands. Where you were referring to closing spaces, were you talking about joining lines? Go to the end of the sentence and space, then do Shift F6; this joins your sentence together. Do you mind telling me the account you are own? Send it to my email. I will be starting soon and was wondering about the account. Thanks.
Meditech
Very easy to learn, but you need a high-speed internet connection
meditech
.h..o..r...r...i....b...l...e. 
Don't like Meditech
There are too many screens to go through before you actually type. I can't get more than 125 lines an hour no matter what. Others do like Meditech, though. This is only my personal opinion.
Meditech
Jill, you have to go through screens and it is a database, which is hard to find a rhythm, but some really like it.  It lags and goes down a lot, so be prepared to save your document if it is way long because if that connection gives out on you there goes your report.  I would suggest being prepared to really lose money with Meditech at first.  There are much better platforms out there.  Meditech is a hospital program so it so drawn and bogged down with users especially during peak hours.  Good luck whatever you decide. 
Meditech

I absolutely love MediTech!  But then again I was there during installation and I am a superuser in RAD, OE and PCI modules so I comes a lot quicker.


I quit a facility that I still go back and work part time at and I can pick right up and I actually put out more work there.  Of course it works better when you are working at the facility.  Dial up would be hell due to the hang ups.  If you are not familiar with medications and terminology it's tricky because it technically has NO medical dictionary.  Keep Stedman's by.  If you are working on a Word based system you should have access to your medical dictionary and then it converts back to meditech.  When I type for this company at home I type in word and then I go to thier facility and copy and paste into meditech.  I have to fix the bold and underlying which will not convert using C&P method but it saves me a 2 hour driving time.  Just make sure you always spell check from the top of a document or it will tell you there are no errors!  Both Rad and Order Entry have data entry sections but when you get the hang of it you can fly right through those.  Use the canned text/expander a lot.  In order entry or departmental typing for acute care stuff, when typing directly in the module, I don't have to send my reports right back so I actually hold them and then spellcheck and print all at once since spell check is so slow.  Good luck.  Hope that's not my part time job you're taking! 


If you cannot get around in Meditech to get more than 100 lph, than you sm
are not trying very hard. The hospital I work for outsourced our work to another company and I went to work for them (not Keystrokes). I have used Meditech Magic and Meditech Client and a strange one that is half-way between the two and never have had a problem getting more than 200 lph. I use an Expander and really use it a lot.

Then again, I used to love WP5.1 and it is very similar.

Different strokes for different folks.
are you on the meditech
platform and making 20,000 plus lines a payperiod?
meditech
Typing on Meditech is driving me INSANE. I find myself wandering away from the computer and not being able to stay focused as I really do not like the platform. It is SO antiquated. It needs to be sold to India for a tax credit or something.
Never used Meditech.
what is blech about it?
Meditech.....
Does anybody have the scoop on this company?
Meditech
Any info on this platform?
What about Meditech?
I asked the recruiter this same question and she wasn't sure. She's suppose to double check with the tech ppl and email me, however her manager told her that since DocQScribe is a proprietary platform and Meditech is not, they probably wouldn't be able to save any of my expanders. So I won't get my hopes up, but Meditech already has lots of commonly used macros already installed so all I'll have to do is customize. At least that's the way it was last time I had used Meditech. If that's the case then it won't be nearly as bad as say starting from scratch.
Meditech
How do you create your own templates? And what did you mean by the F-key thing?

I just started an account using Meditech. I am getting a run-around about short cut/macros. I think they dont want to tell me anything that will cause them to pay me more ya know.
Meditech
Does anyone know the functions of the Fkeys for Meditech.   I asked and was blow off.  Thanks.
Meditech with KS (sm)
Does anyone know if there is a place you can download instructions for Meditech use?  (I couldn't find anything on internet, but would be interested in having copy to refer to.)  Thanks!
Could someone who knows Meditech (sm)

Explain what the Function (F keys) do?  I can't find any instructions anywhere....Thank you for your time!  Sincerely, MT


Meditech
Can you use any of the word Expanders with this? How about autocorrect from Word? Any input is appreciated.
I don't know about Meditech, but

I'm on DocQScribe and will be starting a new job that uses Bayscribe. The new employer told me that they should be able to convert my Expanders for use in Bayscribe (in about 90% of the cases). I would definitely check with tech support for Meditech and see.


BTW, you don't happen to work for the Q, do you?