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VR versus transcription - PA MT

Posted: Nov 12, 2009

I was just wondering if anybody is getting transcription anymore. Throughout this whole entire pay period I have gotten nothing but VR, which makes it extremely difficult to make decent money unless you spend 24 hours a day online. I am wondering if they are going VR with almost every dictator in order to screw us out of more pay. This company really knows how to screw with you.

VR versus transcription - PA MT - iluvrainydaze47

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I get a mix but it is by far more ASR than transcription. I'm afraid it is coming down one day doon to all ASR and no more of the other.

VR/ASR - tired and broke in Oregon

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Does anyone know of any companies that provide the equipment AND have no ASR/VR?

vr - versus transcription

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I'd say these days I probable get a 60/40 mix of ASR to transcription. However, I'm able to get in roughly 3-4 times the lines with ASR versus straight reports. So, I don't really see much of a difference in my income.

More lines w/ ASR - oops

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Alright, another coworker to ask. I get about 95% ASR and have since coming back to MQ in February. I don't get as many lines as I did on straight transcription and I am experienced.

I would like to hear more about how you do it. Do you go through the whole report first and put everything in the right format, do you just start right in and reformat as you listen. Are the reports you get pretty repetitive or do you have many different dictators w/ many different styles as well as many different types of reports?

VR vs typing - enigma

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I've been wondering if I was the only one with this problem: It takes me LONGER to edit an ASR report, in general, unless they are echocardiograms or vascular imaging studies, than it does to type from scratch. I get a lot of consults and they are not repetitive; each one is different. I like typing op notes because most of them aren't on ASR yet. Some days I get 80/20 ASR to typing. I type fast, maybe 100 wpm if I can understand the doctor. Editing does not go that fast, when you have to change every other word.

I think they will eventually go to all VR, sm - JMO

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The problem with that is if you have to spend more time in a report, you're screwed out of making any money for that hour because you spent too much time on one report. The people that don't see any difference in their pay, are not big producers. If they are doing the requirment of 150 lines in an hour and can do 150 more in that hour on VR, they are making 300 lines, then they wouldn't see a difference in their pay. The people who do see a difference are the people who are actually typing well over the 150 lines in an hour. So if someone who types 250 lines in an hour can only do VR for an extra 100 lines in that hour or even 150 more lines, then they are only doing 350-400 lines for the hour, thus never achieving the pay they would have received if they were getting their pay for strictly typing. Someone typing 300-350 lines in an hour would really have to edit a lot of documents to get the pay their used to getting for typing.

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