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Yes, I did hospital work where we ran one long document for each day and logged it. We used the dictation system to find the date the reportt was transcribed and pulled that day's work to find particualr reprints. That was in the 1980s/early 1990s.
The one file method is more commonly used for office/clinic work. I in fact still have some local accounts that I do that. It is faster, definitely. Just transcribe, spell check one time, save one time, and print.
I think the transcription platform that you are transcribing on makes a lot of difference with online work, as does the accuracy with which the doctor puts in the pt. #s for automatic information insertion. It can take a lot of time to try to find a patient, and most companies don't even pay for it at all anymore.
All of these things add up -- it IS harder to make the same salary, at least for me anyway. But, I really enjoy it and it still pays more than most of the other jobs I'm qualified to do.
I would not say it is worse, just different. I have only done acute hospital work on the internet, but I find all the different dictators (and the poor quality of some of it) definitely really lowers the amount of lph I do. I make less than half online than I do transcribing from my old tapes and my WP5.1 with PDR .. :(
There are positives too with the new online systems; it especially benefits for the patients in record retreival, etc. with the EMR; it also allows us to access the work remotely, a benefit to both the dictators and the transcriptionist.
Hang in there. I hope you find the right fit. Perhaps you should try to get some local accounts yourself??
Maybe the other poster was just a youngster .. LOL ... still trying to convince my teenage son he doesn't know everything and the post sounded like something he would say! |
I agree ! - more than you know 
