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how many lines can you type in VR? - anon

Posted: Sep 15, 2010

the place i'm working at claims that we should be able to type twice as much in voice recognition as we can straight typing. I am making about 3/4 of that and am having to work harder to achieve that. I am getting concerned about my productivity. Was wondering what everyone out there is getting? Are you getting twice as much done in VR?

Anon, the number varies according to the amount of - Skilled Editor

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correction required on each account. I have had accounts on which I fairly quickly more than doubled my transcribed line count. Others I never will.

Let me ask you though, have you already stored dozens and dozens of corrections you do all the time in your expander?

For instance, to change:
"Was short of breath" to "He was short of breath" by hitting your version of "xx"?

Or use "ZZ" to:
Delete an SR mess "HEART: Regular rhythm, rush, no axis, no ST abnormality"
and replace it with that physician's usual statement: CARDIAC: Regular rate and rhythm, QRS interval normal, axis normal, no ST-T wave abnormality."
And position the cursor at the beginning of the next line?

I'm sort of hoping you, like so many, are not, because that means you have tremendous room for speeding up.

no, i just have short handed words in there, not complete statements - anon

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nm

Think of more than just long statements, Anon, think of all - Skilled Editor

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the types of corrections you do, text rewrites, word additions, punctuation. A lot of corrections are dropping in single words, and phrases like "as she/he/they/the patinet reported/s/is reporting" so I'm trying to abbreviate them all. Takes time, but so worth it.

If your SR is constantly doing, "2-oh prolene," make a macro that erases the error for you and replaces it with "2-0 Prolene." If you're always correcting PO to "p.o." and you usually need to hop across "b.i.d." "t.i.d. daily" etc., make more than one macro that will do the correction AND place the cursor to where you're going to need it next, including one to leave it in place.

Think in terms of cutting keystrokes off EVERYTHING. My expander's been telling me lately it's only typing about 1 keystroke for every one I do, i.e., 50% of the total. For a while it was usually around 53, ranging up to 57. It's because I'm doing more of a certain work type, so I'm working at cutting keystrokes on those reports to bring my average back up. Corrections and additions of punctuation, headings, individual words, phrases, sentences, whole blocks of text--stored in short forms. BTW, that's 50% PLUS what I save by using templates. :)

Although I do store special text blocks under dictator names, ("patgrki" for "Thank you for your most gracious kindness, etc., etc., etc.") most of my abbreviations are made to be "portable," usable for any dictator, any hospital, any employer. So "gracious kindness" might also get entered on its own.

Hope there's an idea somewhere there that strikes you as usable.

skilled editing - me

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this is really amazing.
Where or how did you learn all this?
Did you take a apecial editing course or did you figure this all out by yourself?

Go talk to VR Trainer! I've always stumbled along by myself. :) - Skilled Editor

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I've just been doing it a while now and relate what's working for me, not necessarily what people who've studied this are finding works best these days.

Yes, where can I learn how to do this? Does SH - have a course? NM

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NM

NM, there's been a lot of discussion here - Skilled Editor

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and elsewhere that will help if you do searches for it, including for Shorthand specifically. You basically do it for yourself, but people do share lists of short forms and systems they've developed for naming short forms that you can copy to get started.

Having systems for naming means you don't have to remember the name, just what it has to be. My short form for the word coagulate is cog. The suffix -tion is j. The prefix anti- is ai. Anticoagulation is aicogj.

You can also start by getting rid of extra unnecessary letters in words you type a lot, typing phonetically. For instance, you might want to replace digraphs like TH with one letter. Since both those letters are in such high demand, I chose U (one of the few I'd not already overused already), and it works fine even though it seemed weird at first. The word "through" has a bunch of extra letters nobody needs to be typing. So my short form for that is "uru." Thought is uot. Tough is tuf.

That sort of thing, but go find lists to copy and get started with.

None. Because I refuse to do VR. - Eeyore

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n/msg

LOL! Maybe we all should revolt. - Me

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If we all refused, I wonder what would happen? Ahhh....they would just send ALL of it to India. Can't win for losing.

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