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I hate using certain templates - Trigger Happy

Posted: Jan 13, 2014

when the doctor either changes almost everything in the template or the template is merely headings and I have to copy and paste the whole friggin report paragraph by paragragh and then edit it. What a waste of friggin time!!! Thanks for the vent!

I hate using certain templates - marie

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Trigger Happy, maybe this will help you. In training, we were told when a standard exists for reports that are just headings, we do not have to pull that standard in, but we MUST type in every single heading that's is on that standard versus doing a copy/paste for each paragraph. I had the same thought you did, must pull in standard and complained about it wasting time. Even my CP told me not to do it that way, takes up too much time. So far, no complaints but again, be sure to type in every heading whether dictated or not, and be sure they're red headings. Saved me so much time. Hope this helps.

Twelve minute reports with templates! - CuriousMT

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I hate getting the reports that are 10 to 12 minutes long that have the templates that populate, but then speech doesn't bother putting them in the template and such. Then the doctors don't necessarily dictate the headings properly, so unless you know this 3 page-long template by heart, where the extra lines go, what is bold and what isn't, what is capped and what isn't (because these NEVER follow the account specs), it's near impossible to just type them.

I DREAD those files, even though they are almost always easy dictators and long files. Oh! And these are the files I see most that are "thrown back." I've brought this up to my TSM, but I just get the excuse of "how do you know they are cherry picking and throwing stuff back." or "they can't do that. the system won't allow you to."

That's all BS because you can do it, and when I see the TAT on one job at 15 hours and then I get one of those horrible files and the TAT is closer to 12 hours, that's a 3 hour gap, meaning that person held onto that file for 3 hours! Some aren't quite as drastic, and I realize that some files get "stuck" in the system when people clock out for lunch and at the end of the day, but it's "conveniently" always those types of files and NEVER good stuff!

The ones I kind of resent are the very short ones - and they use ISR!

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They are still good because you get the template in and if you know it well enough you can complete it quickly and accurately (for a change), but basically the doctor is just dictating a name and date and a few words maybe and you get paid 4 cents instead of 8 cents because it is ISR!

Those short template ops and so forth are a way to make up for dreadfully long, horrible dictators and up your line count, but it is just plain mean spirited to put it through the speech engine.

Because they're greedy b@$7#><$! - CuriousMT

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The reason it goes through speech is simple, because if it was straight transcription, then all the stuff that gets imported with their "normal" would be paid at the higher rate. And heaven forbid they pay us for 10 measly lines at the higher rate 0.0001% of the time!

I recognize that if the doctor speaks clearly, it will default to speech recognition, but there are doctors who speak just as clearly but force their work to go through straight transcription. So, I know it can be done!

What I hate is when you have the doctors that in the middle of a dictation set the phone down to thumb through papers and such. I had a file one day that was 20 minutes long with about 50 seconds of usable transcription. Even speeding it up to 150%, that still takes quite a bit of time to listen through. And I couldn't just move my cursor forward because he'd come back every few seconds to say 1 word or give a lab value. And it was a doctor whose files are ALL reviewed, ASR I believe they call that. So I knew the QC would be listening and have to listen to the whole thing.

Threw my entire line count for the day down to below the minimum, WAY below!

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