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Keystrokes.... - rbs

Posted: Nov 05, 2009

I know that there have been many negative posts concerning Keystrokes. Is this Meditech platform that they use difficult to catch onto?

Meditech - Happy MTer

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I worked on Meditech for a while and hated it, although it was not with Keystrokes. It is definitely not MT friendly at all, a lot of screens to go through, very time consuming, very slow, hanging up at times, etc. Again, I hated it but others may like it.

Good luck!

I totally agree with the above post - sm

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I worked on Meditech for years and years by the hour, not production. It is a horrible platform. It is not MT friendly at all.

Just let Keystrokes know that you are in the know that Meditech is horrible and you expect to be compensated for the time you waste on all the screens.

There are more positive posts than negative for KS. sm - KSMT

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The same negative people post over and over again. Most of us are very happy at KS, and they grow each year. They are by far the best company I have ever worked for, and I have been with them for over 3 years.

For Meditech, there are many different versions. I have been on 2 at KS and the Windows-based one is MUCH better than the one with the blue background color.

They have other platforms too, but Meditech is not as bad for everyone. Personally, I do over 20,000 lines a pay period and never work more than 7 hours a day. The key is learning the doctors and having an expander for every word or phrase over 4 letters or 2 words.

Good luck!

um, no one said a word about KS, all replies are about Meditech. NM - I am just saying

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OP said there were a lot of negatives. nm - KSMT

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The OP will go broke trying on Meditech... - sm

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It does not matter how much you build your expander, Meditech is that bad. I worked on it for years. If you are using an expander like you mention in your post, you can do 20,000 lines on any platform. It is the screens you have to get through to get to the actual transcription that takes time and that's hoping the dictator gets the account information correct.

Meditech - milla

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My experience with Meditech/KS was that when typing at full speed, Meditech would regularly without warning ''freeze'' and kick you right out of the system--all the way back to the first screen. This company's ''wonderful''tec support said the problem was not Meditech but rather at MY end, maybe with my expander, maybe with my computer, blah, blah, blah. Funny, am now working for a different company--same expander, same computer, different platform, thankfully no Meditech--and thankfully now I can type as fast as I want (which is kind of the idea behind production transcription)---no more freezing & getting booted out. What was really frustrating was their policy of no transcribing in Word, then copy/paste into Meditech (which worked just fine). Bad experience there.

Keystrokes/Meditech - CBMT

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I hate Meditech. There is so much garbage to go through and too hard to get lines. I started at KS on Meditech, but luckily was quickly switched over to winscribe, which I really like. I love Keystrokes, but will never work on Meditech again.

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