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Have worked for both. I am back at Keystrokes after making the mistake of leaving for Accusis.

Posted By: BTDT on 2008-12-15
In Reply to: Any thoughts about Acusus versus Keystrokes? If you had your choice sm - Unsure MT

My pay at Keystrokes has always been much higher because they seem to never run out of work. Accusis is mostly offshore, which is a negative to me. Ask Keystrokes to match the rate, I bet they will if you forego the review in 90 days. I will never leave again!


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If your going to be an RN just for more money your making a mistake..sm
I was an RN and I hated it.  Horrible hours, awful doctors with egos, patients who have no respect for you, etc.  People who are RNs do if for the love of helping people, not money.
You would be making a huge mistake....sm
...by even wasting one second of your time with OSi. There's plenty on these boards to back up my opinion.

But, if you are seeking that first year experience, I suppose OSi should be considered.

Good luck!
I worked for Keystrokes a few years back. There were some problems but was told they were working on
I had heard that before, too many times to count, so I left.

I came back 2 years ago and it was like night and day.

All of the old problems are gone. They blamed them on growing pains and never denied them. Instead they fixed them. They have my vote!
Worked for an MT service that had a mistake on the cover of Employee Manual (sm)
That is bad. 
I worked in QA for Transcending back in 2000-2001. They were paying hourly back then. SM

The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.


Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 


There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 


I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 


Good luck to you!


Has everyone heard back from Keystrokes yet regarding the email we received a while back?
Just wandering why I haven't heard any response yet.
same way an employee making $8 an hour. Hold some back.
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Why should I go back to making 9 cpl when I make 11 cpl now?? I made 8 cpl over 12 years ago.
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accusis
Anybody heard of this company? Not sure if the spelling is correct.
It still goes back to our government making it lucrative tax wise to outsource
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I was offered a job at Accusis but
from what I see in the archives they are Indian-Owned or at least send work offshore. If this is true, I will not accept the job. Can anyone verify this? TIA!
I have never worked for TT and it's making me sick. Blatant
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Only Keystrokes. Worked at MQ until I came to Keystrokes. Started at sm
Keystrokes PT, liked what I saw and experienced, gave notice to MQ and went FT. Have not look back since. I had previously worked at 2 hospitals, for MDI, Transcend and MRC until bought by MQ. I plan on retiring here as long as they stay as they are.
I applied at Keystrokes a while back

it took exactly one day to hear back.  They offered me a job but were only hiring full-time.  I asked for 9 cpl to start and they were fine with that. I wanted part-time.


P/S:  I love checking the archives; you can gain great info from doing this.  Try it sometime.


I worked for them a while back...
I never got to their required line counts because of filling in so many things with each report.  Finally, the recruiter called me and told me we would sever the relationship.  I sent the equipment back and got paid for my lines.  Working at much better place now where all the demographics fill in automatically.  Was not a traumatic event to leave them.  Go on with your life.  There is more out there in the world.  Bueno suerte!
You must have worked there a while back because...sm
The rental fees have been gone for quite a while now. The company has been restructured over a year ago and extra management added so questions can be answered promptly on accounts. Potential new employees are given in writing details of the pay rate, scheduled work hours, etc as part of the employment package.
I have worked for them and went back sm
I left primarily because last fall they didn't have enough work and we aren't talking low on work, we are talking absolutely NO WORK on the system for hours at a time. I don't know if they were overstaffed or what.

I was invited back recently and jumped at the chance. The new MT manager is a gal I worked with previously, but she had been promoted and she has many excellent ideas about how to make her organization a team. I really enjoy her.

As for the work, right now there is no problem at all. I think that this gal is pretty careful about hiring and not overhiring. She will ask if you can work more and go to a couple of crosstrained MTs she has and best yet, she will get right on there and type herself before she will hire a new person. I love that feeling of reality and support on her part. Her boss is an extremely nice, very professional gentleman whom, I believe, truly cares about the MTs and his staff.

They pay well IC and I'd go for it. The platform is a Word client and I love it. It took about 3 hours for it to go smoothly for me, if that long. Tech support is wonderful, he knows what he is doing and he is pleasant.

Umm email if you need other information.
Worked for them a while back...
What's going on now?
I worked for Oracle back sm

around April of this 06 for about 3-4 weeks and it was a total joke.  They don't have instructions to their platform in any kind of organized form.  Their training is about 1/2 to 1 hour and then you are on your own. I made absolutely no money and have been doing this for almost 30 years.  I wouldn't go there.  The people were nice except the one that i dealt with in Human Resources before I started.  That should have given me a clue.  I live in the south (originally from Michigan) and happened o say you all and she had the nerve tocorrect my grammar.  None of her business.  Obviously she doesn't know anything about being rude or different parts of the country. I should have just called them back after that happened and before they sent out my information/supplies and told them to forget it.


I have a motto of my own that is if it doesn't come easy, don't do it.  I went against my own values that time and got in a total mess.  Their platform then was a joke.  I don't know if they have changed in or not, but I wouldn't work for them again.


I worked for them a few years back
Never had any problem. I was on a surgery center acct, loved my supervisor. I ended up quitting to go back to an in-house job.
worked with them quite a few years back...sm
owner and her husband were great people and fair. Plenty of work all the time. I just could not get used to NOR did i like that EMDAT platform. it was taking forever for my lines to add up. I detest Emdat.
I do not want my youth back, worked too much
and wound down to only 1 job now, not full time anymore and drawing full retirement SS along with my pay from my job. Now, this is when it gets good and feels just like when we did make the big bucks only now I am not working excessive hrs, much easier in my later years.
I worked there a few years back.
There are good and bad. My experience is from a few years back, so I can't say how they are now. First, they have EXCELLENT trainers and support staff. Very professional and the owner is very kind. I really liked her. The bad was that I think when I left I had about 4-5 accounts and still sometimes ran out of work. They would just keep throwing another one at me. I would learn it, and it would be low. This may not be a problem still. I don't know. You have to set a schedule and work that exact schedule if there is work but flex if there is no work. You have to have a time clock, which I did not like at all. I think they only give about 4 days off the first year and you CANNOT take unpaid time off, so I did not like that either. They may have ironed out some of those things. They are very nice people though. Hope this helps.
A few years back I worked for

an MTSO that asked for suggestions from all its MTs on how to make our working experience better.  So I made a few recommondation, one of which was for some kind of forum where its workers could get together, get word help, share tips on the platform, accounts and difficult dictators, and kvetchz some.  The response that this has been considered but voted down by management because such forums tend to become negative. 


My idea had been that if it were a company-sponsored board the comments would be more constructive than anonymous bitching and ranting on a board such as this;  then management would have a handle on what was bugging people, and could respond and maybe remedy some things.  Apparently their fear was that people would be frank about problems they were having, others would agree,  and the suits would then have no way to claim they were unaware of problems.


So we had to turn to a forum like this and management definitely monitors what is going on, yet can deny that knowledge and not feel obliged to respond or fix anything.


EVESDROPPERS SELDOM HEAR GOOD OF THEMSELVES. 


Yes, worked for them back around 2003 (sm)
Stayed about 3 years. When I started, they were still Edix, and they were fabulous! Good line rates, great QA team, and some of the nicest trainers I've ever worked with.

Then they gobbled up a few smaller companies, became Spheris, and took away our quality bonuses, moving to a strict production-based incentive program. It was still okay for me, because I really liked my accounts and had a great supervisor.

Then they chased off some of the best supervisors, and then I moved on.

I tell friends who ask now that it's a great place to build experience if you are just starting out, but that I would never advise anyone to stick with them long-term. There are better firms out there. Not bad, but not great, in other words.
I worked for them a couple of years back sm
Nice bunch of people, all IC. Nice platform. Always had plenty of work and I think they paid 7 cents a line. I did weekends and always had work. I'd go back to work for them if I could. They had lots of radiology and acute care and tons of cardiac.
I tried Vonage a while back, but I didn't think it worked very well at all and got rid of it.
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I worked there and left, recentily went back and
this is where I will hopefully retire from.  I went from company to company and was never happy with any of them.  MQ works for me.  Very happy that I went back!
And they have been that way since I worked for them back in 1999 or 2000!
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I worked for them a couple of years back... SM
They are a pretty good company to work for.  Pay always on time.  Work flow waxes and wanes sometimes, but pretty consistent.  I liked them.  Only reason I left was to take a job in the office which didn't work out.  I'd go back to them in a heartbeat if I didn't need bennies.
Pay was low back in 2005 unless you worked the entire weekend. nm
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I worked for them PT awhile back -- 20 hours a week min., I think. nm

I have worked for MQ, Spheris back when it was Edix, Transcend and OSI. TransTech is by far the bes
The pay is decent, probably not the highest in the business but not the lowest either. The benefits are good. Pay is always on time. Great bonuses. Great communication and most of all I really like the people and it makes me enjoy being an MT again.
I worked at TC about 3-1/2 years back. I found everyone to be helpful and friendly. sm
The pay was pretty good and the account was easy. I just had some sound issues and got a better offer elsewhere. Does PY still work at TC? She is a great lady and I thoroughly enjoyed working with her! I'd say to anyone looking to give TC a chance! They are one of the better companied out there; small by mighty!
I worked for them years ago, back in 1994. No one was working from home then... SM
Well, if you were working from home, you were coming in and picking of tapes.  It was a pretty good place to work.  I was just starting out as an MT so it was really good experience for me.  They paid me hourly, but I was in house back then.  
I worked for 2 other nationals before Keystrokes..(sm)
I can tell a HUGE difference in the personal attention they pay to their employees. I felt like nothing but a number at the big nationals and I finally feel like I am actually a person at Keystrokes, one who counts. I also believe they will do everything in their power to keep it that way too.
The ones I referred to never worked for Keystrokes. sm
They worked for the hospital and then as ICs for the hospital. I did not mean to upset anyone. If you were a mother/daughter team at Keystrokes, and I think I know who as there were 3 and now only 1, then you were well-liked and appreciated. I know for a fact that the owner speaks very highly of all three of the mom/daughter teams, even the two who are gone, saying that she wished they were back.

These two MTs never worked there; they were from the hospital and had never worked anywhere else!

I would never intentionally offend anyone and certainly did not mean to do so by the post. The two who chased Keystrokes off the account were proud of it.

Has anyone worked for both Axoltol and Keystrokes?
I'd just like some feedback, pros/cons as you see them.  Feel free to e-mail privately. 
I'd go with Keystrokes. The best place I have EVER worked for!!
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Anyone worked at Keystrokes, Good, Bad???
Just wanted some information about Keystrokes to see if anyone works there and likes it.  Thanks.
That many keystrokes worked out to 925 lines +/- a day. You have to stick to 8 hrs a day, though. St
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When I worked for Keystrokes, I NEVER had enough work to make
even 1000 lines a day!  If I had enough work, maybe, but I NEVER did.  It ALL depends on your account 150%!!
Keystrokes does. I have worked on ortho only for them for 2 years. sm
I have my own docs and my supervisor is great. She leaves me alone to do my work and as long as I do it well and on time, she leaves me alone. I prefer this, so it is a great job for me. I average 14,000 lines a pay period and make 0.09 per line. I do use their insurance, which costs me $204 per month, but it's only me. So far, so good with the new insurance!

I'm not sure if they are hiring but it would be worth trying.
I worked for Keystrokes for a couple of years...
I was very happy with the company.  I didn't have a problem with them, just needed to take a leave for a while and ended up starting with another company a few months later.  It's been about a year and a half since I worked for them, but at that time there was plenty of work.  I had no problems with supervision.  I really don't have anything negative, but again it's been a while, so I don't know what the workload is like these days.  Hope that helps - good luck!
can you tell me why you are leaving WMX. Am thinking of leaving too. nm
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For radiology, Keystrokes is the best. I worked at MQ for 8 years and left in January. sm
Wish I had done it two years ago. Lots of work, easy accounts, great team leads! I am making less per report but more each check because of better account with more work available!
Sorry I forgot to mention I work for Keystrokes..never worked for Medscribe (nm)
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Has anyone ever left Keystrokes and gone back? I left a few months ago and realize that I made a

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Ok - here ya go. I went from making $1800 per pay period to making just under $900.
Is that significant enough for you? Believe us, we are not just being negative with a grudge or anything like that. This is real! A month later, I was gone from there fast!
My mistake. It was MDI-FL. sm
They called me back yesterday finally and found out that it was MDI-FL.  I was offered the position which I gladly took.  The funny thing is that Transcend has the account now that my previous employer had and was taken away and given to Transcend.  I am crossing my fingers I will get on that one (although not holding my breath either).  The line rate seems good.  The schedule is what I need.  So we shall see.  So far so good.
mistake
Yes. Mistake made. Windows Vista not compatible with a lot of MT software. Go to Microsoft.com and find what IS compatible, by manufacturer's name.