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Most Dictaphone stuff is proprietary and won't work with other systems.

Posted By: sm on 2008-01-14
In Reply to: Bought some Dictaphone headgear, need adapter for computer - Need hearing aid

If there's an adapter out there, I'm not aware of it. Hope you can return your purchase.


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Lanier is proprietary meaning it will only work
with a Lanier system and you cannot use a C-Phone or DVI workstation to access a Lanier digital system.  You won't be able to use it with a DVI system or Dictaphone.  However, if memory serves, you should be able to use a Dictaphone C-phone or DVI workstation interchangeably with most other digital dictation systems and Dictaphone.
MTSOs who work with call-in dictating systems. See inside.

If you work with a call in system, would you be willing to share if you like it/don't like it, how your transcriptionists acess their work (internet or through the call in system), where did you buy your system and is it efficient, etc.  Thanks.


C-phone used to call in to dictating systems to receive work. A special phone. nm
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You can deduct your work stuff, i.e. all of above, but you will need a Sch. C - sm
I believe. I think you need that schedule (vs. the CEZ) in order to write all that off. The computer would be line 13 and you can take a section 179 deduction for the entire amount, for which you need form 4562 (lines 7-12 and 24a-29). It is not difficult to do. For your state taxes generally (presume every state is different though), you take line 36 off your 1040 (if you are using a 1040) and that amount will contain your reported income from the sch. C (which has your write-offs) - Good luck !
If you want the good stuff, work GRAVEYARD, or
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Does Dictaphone footpedal work with DocQScribe platform?
If not, know where I can find a reasonable universal footpedal?
Whoops, probably should have mentioned, I work on Dictaphone ExSpeech. NM
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Anyone know if a pedal with Dictaphone adapter will work with ExpressScribe?

Thanks !!!


 


I hear Radnet won't work with Word autoentries and stuff.
And I never worked out of Word before, so what are good and cheap word Expanders - will any import my Word shortcuts and expanders?
RE: I hear Radnet won't work with Word autoentries and stuff.
I currently use RadNet at my in-house job, and it has its own shortcut Expander pre-programmed. You create the expansion and use F9 to launch the expansion.
Just say it's not going to work out, quit, and send the stuff back. Not like you'll be using t
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Part-time work using Extext/word client/dictaphone
Anyone know any companies that are hiring that use this system?  I really want to start part-time and then probably commit to full time later.  I really want a company that supplies your equipment!  Thanks.
It is proprietary software and you need

a special foot pedal to be able to play it.   I also have Start/Stop and can play the files once they go through a conversion, but I have to use the VXP software because the demographics from the files loads into each report.  


I left my e-mail. 


 


proprietary pedal? MQ?
Is that what's wrong with my pedal? I've done everything and cannot get it to work with Express Scribe, though another lady with the samed kind of pedal, her's works. Mine came from MQ.
If the company does not use a proprietary
software you can buy the pedal w/o software and use Express Scribe, which you can download for free.   You can download Express Scribe and use the hot keys to test and then buy a pedal if you need it. 
Lanier is a type of dictaphone, but when speaking of a C-phone, it's meant as the Dictaphone Con
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Need suggestions, generic vs proprietary drugs

It seems there are so many anymore that i have trouble remembering not to capitalize -- how do the rest of you remember? 


I am using docuscribe and the quick correct feature does not seem to work for converting back to lower case.  Any suggestions?


It is a proprietary program developed by the company. No, very few sm
people do over 300 lph.  Most top out at a little over 200, if that, a lot at around 150 lph.  It is not the platform's fault.  It is decent.  It is up to the transcriptionist.  ASR is a huge part of this platform now, and will become more as days go by.
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Power supplies are Dell proprietary and must be purchased from
power supply is the same way.  I have 3 Dell laptops and a Dell PC and there are indeed a number of items that are proprietary.  However, I love all of my Dell products and wouldn't trade them for anything.
I hated it - but if you do go ahead with it, I have the proprietary foot pedal you'll need that I
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I don't know about other systems.
I use Express Scribe sometimes but I only work on eScription. I know with a connection that slow you aren't going to be able to use EditScript. I think that the only way you are going to be able to get around that, if you are doing strictly QA, is to use EMON and not use EditScript, although I'm not sure you'll be able to get the voice file to download that way either.
I don't know if different VR systems
But, I have been doing VR for only a month, and I have noticed that the system DOES learn. Mistakes that it made before or phrases it didn't pick up before, it is now getting much better. I used to not want to believe it, but now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I know that it will only be a matter of time before it replaces MTs. Since I have over another 30 years in whatever career I choose, I have decided to get out. No sense in going down a road that leads to nowhere.
I have wireless for 3 systems but I believe you
will have to have DSL coming in on a router. From my understanding (and goodness knows I could be wrong) I don't think you can have "wireless" internet without a router from another source. The router is attached to your phone line for DSL and sends out the signal for other wireless adaptors to pickup.

Dictation Systems

I'm looking at going from the good ol' tapes to digital dictation.  What is the best choice for the $$? 


 


Thank you


Dictation systems
Can anyone recommend any good Internet based call in phone systems for doctors to utilize without spending a lot of money on phone line based/computer systems.  Thanks
Reminds me of systems
I've worked on that used Citrix; not being computer savvy, I don't know if they called it a Citrix server or what, but apparently it was a company that they used for some part of the process, and it was not compatible with the software. They I think they had to switch to some other company to speed things up.

That should be about as clear as mud. Sorry.
How about under classification systems in
AAMT BOS(assuming you have this/if not, you can get free through MQ). Hope this helps!
Call-in systems
I've tried out 4 so far. What are the good/bad points of the system you are using?

Thanks!
digital systems
I would go with a DVR and have the docs load it on their computer.  Sounds great!
Are systems capitalized in ROS?
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Some companies' systems are not
compatible with the "new" software, just like a lot do not use Vista. You have to buy what is required to work.
I think I smell either VR on the easy stuff, or offshoring of the easy stuff.
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How hard is it to network 2 systems
I would like these 2 systems to talk with each other and have no idea of how to do it?
Systems are not down for long these days.
dd
Call-in phone systems
What is the best call in phone system out there. I do not want call in on tapes though. I appreciate your input. Deb
So right about the Huge Health Systems - sm
in fact, that was 99.9% of the problem at my hospital. Once it got gobbled by a greedy HMO, everything went downhill fast. They got their fancy new campus at the expense of quality medical care and ethical treatment of its employees.

The run-'em-in and run-'em-out style of practicing medicine puts a lot of pressure on the MDs to see patients quickly, but it's SO not thorough! I saw this not only in the rushed, often mistake-filled reports they dictated, but in my own care as well. They lost a lot of their top-notch MDs because they refused to practice that superficial style of 'Mc Medicine'.

When I see all the greed in the HMOs, and the overspending on upper management and not enough on the nuts-and-bolts of what makes a good hospital, it's easy to see that although they're high-on-the-hog right now, alot of those pompous U-no-whats are riding for a BIG fall someday. I hope I'm still around to see it - it'll make my day.
Rosemarie is right on for trained VR systems. SM
You are obviously currently working with a new system that is still learning how to do its job. The first typewriters were undoubtedly really a pain to use, too. The poor clerks of those days must have begged just to be allowed to use their pen and ink as they always had.

My current system isn't as learned/advanced as my last one, so lots of corrections. It's about as much fun as doing QA cleaning up after a pack of new and sloppy MTs. But it's a temporary situation. And my current pay rate reflects the time needed for all those corrections. Does yours?

Over time, though, more and more reports do start coming through in good condition until most of them just require some general cleanup here and there.

Editing does shift emphasis from one skill to another.
I can see how the very fastest of typists might not make more editing than typing--they always speeded the dictation up to match them, and how people with little talent for editing might make less, but most people should do just as well editing as typing and many do make more at it.
Nuance or OPUS systems

Is anyone out there in transcription land familiar with either of these systems?  I'm starting work for a new client (Pathology) and find them inefficient and require too much non-transcription work to look up doctor's names and demographics.  I'm wondering if I'm missing "something".  Thank you to anyone who can give me a clue.    d


voice reginition systems
If you get dragon and have it listen to the dss files that come in will it automatically start typing the doctors dictation or does it have to be the same voice over and over?
Dictation systems - all input welcome

Hi.  Please let me know if I should post this on a different board. The hospital I work for is looking to change dictating/transcribing systems.  We have dictaphone extext and are looking at WinScribe, Escription, or really we are wide open. 


Does anyone know of a good internet resource that compares the pros and cons? 


Would any of you be willing to share your experience, good or bad, with any software you have used? 


Is there a forum or a thread that has already covered this you can direct me to to research?


TIA!


Brinker Information Systems
Has anyone heard of Brinker Information Systems, LLC?  I can't seem to find them on the web or anywhere.  They are based out of Center City, MN.  They have sent me papers to be faxed to them for IC work, but they did not ask me to test for them or anything.  I am leary to send them anything.  If anyone knows anything it would be helpful.
Brinker Information Systems
I am in the same situation. I would like some information too if anybody has some. Thanks
I agree, we train the VR systems and when
they are perfect (maybe this will never happen), then VR replaces us. Duh?
How can this be an incentive for MTs?
Front-end/back-end systems...

"Front-end" SR means that the original dictator's speech is turned into text. "Back-end" SR means that someone listens to the original dictator, redictating and "cleaning up" the original dication.  This "sanitized" redictation is then fed into the SR engine. 


The main disadvantage of "front-end" systems in the healthcare setting is that they must try to adapt to the speech peculiarities of many different dictators, whereas a "back-end" system only has to deal with the speech patterns of one dictator, namely the person who does the redictation.


Back-end dictation adds a layer of human intelligence to the conversion of speech to text because the person redictating presumably catches errors, eliminates hesitations and miscues, squares up ambiguous sentence structures, etc. - things that front-end dictation cannot do or does very poorly.  As such, while the back-end speech engine might still cause some errors that require keyboard correction, there should not be nearly as many as front-end systems produce.  And, a back-end SR application can be less sophisticated than a front-end system because it is not being required to deal with so many vagaries of human speech.  In fact, a back-end SR application does not need artificial intelligence at all, whereas front-end SR really does.


 


 


 


CHS is Community Health Systems
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