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 Does winzip qualify as hipaa compliant when used with a password?  Does anyone out there work directly for a doctor and have experience with this?

Any help would be appreciated!

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Does anybody have trouble with a sore left thumb from doing speech recognition in ExText? I have been doing it now for 5 months and have constant pain in my thumb. Just wondered if there was a better way of doing it.

Hello. I have a few small part time transcription accounts and want to know how I can claim them so I can accumulate time for Social Security benefits. I'm an independent contractor using 1099.  

Thanks,

Terry

How will the EMR/EHR affect the small MTSO?  Do any of you have any opinions on this?  I was planning on starting up a very small business but this is concerning.  Thanks!

I am working for one company.  Got the offer to train at a higher rate with another one.  One of the managers called me yesterday.  She said the trainer and software guy would be contacting me, but did not give me a time frame.  I emailed her asking her for a time frame.  This was yesterday.  How laid back should I be about this?  I would like training to start this week if they can do it, as I need to know asap whether this job will work out or not.  Is it proper to email her today, wait until Wednesday, email the big boss, etc. 

What is a good game plan? 

Can the person who posted the site www.EFTPS.gov please reply to this...

My husband and I are "discussing" the ad/disadv between the two.  I know you said IC all the way.  Can you please tell me why IC is better? I would be gratefully honored!

THANK YOU!! 

If anyone can help me or direct me where to find help, I'd greatly appreciate it!  I work part-time for a company that does not mind if I have my own clients as well (as long as I don't compete for theirs of course).  I use a c-phone.  My doctor would like me to do some transcription work for his office - I am trying to find out what equipment or program I need for him to be able to dictate and for me to be able to transcribe his dictation via my c-phone through the internet.  What equipment or program would I need and how do I do this??

Thanks so much for any help!!!

Well, this is really something.  For the first time since being at home, Comcast is down. 

Dial up modem is too slow to register my keystrokes and I get kicked off the hospital's system (which is 3,000 miles away).  

I do believe, after experiencing this, that technology is going to be the determining factor in outsourcing.  I used dial up modem for a clinic when with MQ but it was only a few hundred miles away from me and worked just fine.  Could it be that the farther away you are from your account, the less optimal dial up modem operation is?

Can you imagine what would happen if all accts were linked to a foreign country and the server went down? 

This event led to a 911 emergency as I was only MT on my acct scheduled to work today.  I am actually shaking as I know  how important it is to get the radiology work done in two hours.

Just had to share this with you guys. 

of a VERY difficult dictator... yet you get no QA back... I left at least 7-8 blanks and have not gotten any corrections back from QA (which is the usual process) for me to look over and listen back over report. Does it mean that they don't know either? I notice this happens to me quite a bit when I get something difficult and am anxious to get QA back to see what I can learn.

for the MT biz.

http://www.cbsnews.com:80/stories/2007/12/31/health/main3658750.shtml

There are requirements for insurance if you are FT

There are requirements for certain equipment if SE

I can't seem to get anything in writing from them, the rules are fluid.

What are you all being told?

After one of my docs retired and one passed away, I went to work part-time in a clinic typing notes into the EMR's.  I know we have all been scared that these will take away our jobs.  I also continued with my small MTSO --tapes only, with 2 part-time I/C's.   I have been on this board many times in the past year with some complaints and some complaining about me.  Anyway, just to let you know that I have been contacted -- I did not go out and attempt to solicit -- by two accounts -- one pretty large and one small that do the electronic charts however they are now also interested in having someone type the notes into the chart.   They have heard about what I am doing at this clinic.  One account I did prior to the implementation of the EMR's and one came out of the blue.   I doubt that I take on either one as I have really been comtemplating going completely solo as it is so hard to find dependable workers, and to have that balance of enough work for them but not too much for the company.   But I do want you guys to know that there is work out there, sometimes you have to be open to new ways and realize it will not always be sitting at home 100%of the time.  For the EMR's I do type some at home and take into the clinic to download and it is nice to get out of the house for an hour or two every other day.  Also have the choice of transcribing there.  They are flexible with my hours.  But if any of you are thinking of going out on your own with your own accounts be flexible and open to any and all types of work.  It is there.     Patti

Can anyone help me hook up an LX 231 Ovation station?  There seems to be an extra cord.

How much vacation time can one expect working as an IC?    When I was told the average was 10 days regardless of years with this company, I thought that seemed a bit odd.  Is this the norm? TIA!

Thanks to all of you for your advice about sciatica.  It gives me hope to know that others had it and have gotten better - and I am really happy to know what all the options are for being treated. 

To the person who said this is a result of being a Transcriptionist and sitting so much - is that true???  I never thought about that being a factor.  I normally walk about 4 miles a day (not right now of course) but I guess that doesn't outweigh the loooongg sitting that we do, does it?

I am signing a contract for work as an IC.  It says Executed by Contractor at _____________, on ____________, 2006.

I get the date part but what goes int the first blank? My address?

I just got my foot pedal but have no idea how to get it to work with EMDAT Inscribe; much to my dismay a manual was not included with the pedal.  Obviously, even though it was pre-programmed to work with EMDAT, I can't just plug it in and get to work.  UGH!

Can anyone help me here.  I'm a real computer dummy so I need to be walked through the steps as though I were a kid.  BTW, my hot keys are F7 Play, F6 rewind, and F4 RR.

TIA