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Posted By: Expander DIVA on 2008-08-21
In Reply to: Expander-How to get the most - out of it?
The one poster below me is right. There are normals and then there are expanders.
First...600 lines an hour in clinic is, in my opinion, not a possibility. Clinic has too many variables. It is not possible in every hour for acute care either, though I have done it a time or two, as in probably 4 hours of this entire year of 2008. Mostly, I do about 300 to 350 and I use Smart Type. I honestly believe that Word tops out at about 400 or slightly more. It won't go that fast, period. WP5.1 is another story and there, I was routinely at 400 lph with no normals in clinic, no less.
Expanders will give you more lines per hour. Properly used, they can also make a lot less work for your hands, allowing you to type longer hours. Without an expander, I burn at about 90 minutes. With Smart Type, I can type happily for 8 and be a bit sore for about 4 more (I work two jobs). An Expander CAN increase your accuracy, but I QA with a difficult account and I see expander errors too frequently to believe that this is always true for everyone.
I have about 20K abbreviations in my expander. I will tell you that I don't have many doctor-specific shortcuts. If I have more than one doctor who uses a given phrase, I'll add it, provided I can remember to use it. Mine are put into the expander in a way that doesn't demand I remember any of them, which is good because I can't remember them!
More faster is the goal, not a given rate per hour. Email with any questions.
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