I haven't used Meditech for about 4 years but ... yes, it does work with a number of Expanders ... but, yes, if you are using a company provided machine, you need their approval before installing anything. ... yes, it's possible they don't know how the system works ... but I wonder how many other duties you have ... answering the phone, faxing reports, dealing with other issues. They simply may not want to deal with the can of worms "incentive plans" create. {When I supervised a small office, virtually every new hire politely asked me if they could be excused from answering the phone, and just type reports, even without an incentive plan -- similarly some people felt filing was "beneath" them}.
FWIW, at my last Meditech job, we had not only Instant Text but also stedman's dictation and some pharm software loaded on ALL machine (I worked from home).
If you have Word or even the ability to copy/paste into notepad and save files into a folder, there's no limit to the number of personal "normals' you can easily store and retrieve once you've worked out your filing system.
At that same job, I also used to transcribe into Word, when Meditech was down (infrequent but it happened) and then copy/paste report into Meditech (having recorded all the log-in info) -- while this could be done on a regular basis (with permission), it isn't terribly time-efficient and there are glitchy problems unless you use a strict TXT or RFT file format (but the Word Expander and spell check have their attractions).
Hope this helps. It's also worth noting that some departments (quite understandably, imho) really avoid being "too efficient" ... it can lead to staff cuts and other upsets. Your boss may well have his/her own reasons, reasonable or not. Irrc, a 5-desk license is really awfully reasonable dollar-wise and isn't hard to justify a fast-cheap upgrade/improvement. But having had several "if it ain't broke don't fix it" bosses, sometimes it's a lost cause.
Look around you -- installing this would be "great" for you -- how would it impact everyone else in your office, particularly the slower, less proficient, less skilled?
Meditech has it's drawbacks -- god knows -- but in my experience it's always been a very reliable workhorse and the ability to shift between modules to look stuff up is glorious. But, I'm definitely "old school"
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