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Hello,

I have a couple of questions on Powerscribe for Radiology.

(1) How is performance of radiology powerscribe editors measured? Is it by length of reports edited? or by number of reports? or by time spent on editing?

(2) Will someone with no prior transcription experience be able to train directly on Powerscribe editing or will he/she need to learn to transcribe using traditional systems first?

Thanks.

Blue

many posts asking for help with words or phrases that are clearly in reference books that most MTs should have.  Don't MTs buy their own reference material anymore or do they rely strictly on the internet.  Most the words and phrases asked about on the Word Board could be found just by buying the medical phrase index or the Surgical Word Book or some of these other word books and building up a reference library. 

What happened to building up the library and searching and learning?  I just looked at some of the Word Help stuff tonight and a lot of it is ridiculous stuff that an MT could very easily find.

Any opinions?  Im not talking about blanks where you just can't understand what they are saying.  I am talking about specific instruments and phrases.  Seems like it happens an awful lot and MTs don't want to search or maybe don't know where to search or don't know what reference material is out there to buy?

Lots of this stuff could be found in just the two books I mentioned above.  Just curious

I hope I posted this in the right spot! Kind of new to this forum, especially with posting messages.  I downloaded a medical transcription survey from 2007 from the MTIA web site which I thought was very interesting and would like to share it with you all if you have not read it.

I loved the summary point stating "Doctors do not generate revenue, documents do. Accurate and complete healthcare documents are essential to a doctor's and institution's revenue cycle."

I remain hopeful and optimistic that in the future that we will once again be recognized for how important our jobs really are.  All of us can go out and get ourselves a medical secretarial position or other positions in the medical field, but it takes a special talent to do the job we do, and I think many people who think our jobs are not worth the money we deserve, possibly can't do OUR jobs.

This is the link and if it does not work, go to the MTIA.com web site, search under press releases and it is the Bentley MT survey for 2007. Hope you find it interesting.

http://www.mtia.com/Downloads/MTSurveyReport-Preliminary.pdf

Hours: M-F, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
REQUIRES: Expert familiarity with guidelines for medical transcription, excellent grammar, spelling, punctuation and medical terminology skills. Ability to respond quickly to 150-200 e-mail questions a day for filling in blanks in reports. Excellent computer skills including internet searches. Ability to communicate clearly in writing. Position requires coordination of QA programs for transcriptionists and performance of monthly random QA. Coordinator will also act as trainer for new staff and coordinator of departmental cross-training.

How in the world could one person do this job???? 150 to 200 emails with questions?  Perform monthly QA train and crosstrain?????

with family, friends, hobbies, etc and still have time to type!  Is it possible, if so, how?

Pros, cons, any other info welcome.  Thank you!

I am starting with All-Type soon, and the handbook says that their platform works with any Word-based expander.  That's all fine and good, but I have never used one.  I'm a PRD+ girl from the old WP51 days, and currently work in Bayscribe, and the Expander in it is a lot like PRD.  Are any of the Word-based Expanders like that?  I tried Instant Text once and hated it.  I don't want popup windows and such.  I like it to be simple, like PRD ... enter copdd and get chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc.  Are any like that?

Thanks for your help!  

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I am interested in picking up some new accounts and really want to design a nice business card --besides the usual info what else can I put on there to make a good impression?

Thanks for your feedback -

I posted this on the textware forum page, but no answer as of yet. 

I am just beginning Extext Speech, and when I am linked to IText, the "magic" strokes, Alt plus period, etc., are formating strokes with IT and do not work as the magic keys. 

Is there a way to get around this so I can actually use the magic keystrokes? 

Thanks in advance..   

Any MTs with experience using Enterprise platform for transcribing - I am interested to know if you can get a decent line count and how many lines per hour you are averaging.  

Is it possible to do 350 lph on that platform?

If an MD in solo practice retires or leaves town, where do those records go and how would one go about obtaining needed records? Any help is appreciated.

I currently type into Medinotes, and recently doctor ask me to start looking up labs, which means I have to go into a different screen, write down the labs, and then go back to another screen and transcribe progress note. 

All he has to do is change screens and read labs. These are a few extra steps that I have to do on each and every patient.

I just want to know what you'll think. 

THanks  

I am looking for a position in house for transcription.  If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to contact me.

Thanks

This is a new account and we're still on dial-up, and don't have the help function.  I have 2 questions:  1) How can you bring a normal you have made for yourself into the document without having to go through the entire list?  2) How can you stop an expansion from expanding on a 1-time basis.  Let's say you have PT as prothrombin time, but you need just "PT" -- how could you get it to stop at PT?  Many thanks! 

This is a question for those of you who are familiar with the history of medical transcription.

When was the QA process started?  Who started it?  Why aren't doctors and other report dictators put through a QA process?  Are there other points about the history of QA for which I have not posed a specific question here?  Please feel free to share whatever history you know.

Why do I need to know?  Well, I don't need to know, but I am just really curious.  While I may write a fictional story about an MT who murders a dictating clinician, I'm not sure if I would include the background information in the story.

As far as I can recall, none of these issues were covered in the Career Step course that I completed 3 years ago.

TIA,

Are there free FTP programs?

TIA