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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

Anyone living in the country using SATELLITE and accessing a VPN successfully?  If so, can you tell me who u use? 

Thanks!

I work in IT for a medoum sized MTSO. We are looking to rerecord dictation from RTAS/Lanier/DVI but can only find transcription ASPs who support rerecording from DVI, not RTAS/Lanier. We currently have our own solution, but are looking to move awy from it.

If any of you know of any transcription ASPs that alow you to record from RTAS/Lanier/DVI , please post

Thanks

Hi, I live & work in the US, but on a H1B. Have W2 employment status with a contracting company. Can I work for MT part time?

If i do, would it risk my current employment. How can I get this confirmed?Regards.

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"ORAL tobaccoism" -- like what other kind is there !!

oh i suppose it could be cutaneous via patch, but sounded dumb...

Yikes!! My document is all screwed up.  I'm hoping someone here can help! I'm typing along and all of a sudden my document characters are red and underlined. The cat walked across the keyboard and hit something ... Any idea what to do to get out of this mess? Thanks a BUNCH!!!

Hello everyone ....  I've been using MS Word's auto correct feature as my expander.  Is it 'just as good' as using an Expander ?   Of course my line count is lousy per hour - but I don't do the same account regularly, and I don't get many ops (standard formats).  

Please tell me if / why I should change to an expander - and which one works best.  Remember PRD for DOS - I loved it.  Is there a Windows version?

Thanks, Susie

I have been a faithful user of Google for years, but lately it seems like I get alot of "junk" when I want to search for something.  anybody else noticing this or is it just me?  any suggestions for an alternative search engine?  I have been using Yahoo occasionally. 

Unrelated to my work, this morning I was trying to 'diagnose' my cat with cough and rattle in her breathing - I never could get it to come up with a good site for pet health, just alot of personal web site junk, some of which had absolutely nothing to do with cats even.

I am thinking of getting Vonage phone service.  Does it really work that well and how easy is it to set up?  I know the ads say that it is 24.95/month, is this really accurate?  Has anyone experienced any hidden costs.

Just trying to test the waters before jumping in.  Any info would be appreciated.  Thanks!

can anyone tell me what are the function keys for Meditech.  I hit F6 and lost a report.  My lead Transcriptionist only "knows" the F keys we use, not any of the others. Shift F6 moves up a line, but what if just plain F6?  Thanks

ESLs are no big deal to me.  I am working right now but I have been running out of work every day now for over two months.  Time to consider a change. 

I have checked the archives but nothing more recent than November 2005 is coming up.

No flames please, just honest opinions.

Thanks in advance.

Thought I'd share this with y'all. Tried this and it works for sure. Nice resource to help MTs.

I type the clinic notes at home, print them, verify the all notes printed, place them in a manila envelope clearly marked with the clinic name and dictator doctor's name and date of clinic.  I then deliver the notes to the lead Transcriptionist at the hospital which manages the clinics.  She in turn distributes them to the clinics. 

The last two weeks, I have gotten several calls from the lead MT that I give the work too that clinics are calling saying they are missing certain notes from certain days which is impossible because I type all notes for a specific day in one large document and print them out together.  There is no way that some are printing and some are not.  Plus I ALWAYS verify that each note printed.  Today, she called and said there were missing notes from two different days.

Then there is the issue of my work being typed by someone in the hospital.  When I deliver work I get a print out of what's on the system as far as clinic notes.  It is a worktype specific list that only I am supposed type.  There are a couple of doctors who dictate all their notes in one looooong job.  There were two very long jobs on my list, but were never pooled to me.  When I enter the specific job number, it says they have been transcribed.  In one instance, the dictator dictated half on one job and half on another.  I typed one job and the other just magically got transcribed.  When I've called to ask who's typing these reports, no one seems to know.

These ladies in this particular transcription department are not a friendly bunch.  I have felt that they sort of resent the fact that I am doing work from home while they have to come in and type.  I think they are wondering why they aren't allowed to work from home.  The work I do is very easy clinic work and would be pretty easy lines for one of them to do just to pad their line counts.

I have a meeting tomorrow with the HIM director who contracted with me about TAT and I know they want a shorter TAT than the agreed upon 24 to 48 hours and I know she is going to want me to make more deliveries than the three I do a week now.  I have asked that they set up a remote printer for me so I can print from home that way delivery isn't an issue anymore, but they act like this can't be done which I know it can be done.

I'm about to cut this account loose, but it's such easy work.  It's just that I'm running into brick walls at this place.

Thanks for listening to me whine! 

I  have receieved an email from their recruiter and have not found anything on this site regarding this company, but not certain of the companies actual name - can anyone help me out here?

I got the new keyboard today and it was NOT what I ordered.  Sure, it looks like the old PC Concepts but... hehehe  from the looks of it, it is a Portuguese keyboard.   Yeah, not gonna work.

BUT.............. I found the Cirque Smooth Cat and Glidepoint.   The only visible difference I can see between these and the old PC Concepts wave is that the 6 is back on the left.  Otherwise, the mouse configuration and everything else is the same as the PCC keyboard.

Check it out at the link.   I'm going to call tomorrow and see if they have them in stock.