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Keystrokes - Straight typing jobs (sm) - mt

Posted: Apr 05, 2012

Does anyone know what Keystrokes is offering to pay for the straight typing jobs? Thinking of applying. thanks!

KS - MT

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Yes, they do straight typing if you can ever get any work to type there! :(

Keystrokes - MTgal

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I recently applied there, but didn't consider working for them, as I don't have a C-phone (used to have one). I didn't bother to reply after I saw that and then I got another e-mail stating they had transcription only positions available. I wrote back and said I didn't have a C-phone any longer and never heard back from them. If they want you to use specific equipment, I think they should provide it, since that is so outdated anyway and they used Meditech which is the slowest of the slow. I am always weary when big companies off transcription only, I think it is just a lure to get you in. Regarless, I didn't have the equipment, so it didn't matter. I have read some good things about that company though.

Right, not very many people likely to have a - Dictaphone in this day and age.

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What I got from it is that the account they are hiring for must want you to dial into their dictation system with the dictaphone, log-in to their intranet in order to access Meditech or maybe Keystrokes is linked into their Meditech system somehow.

I do know that Meditech is not very user friendly for the MTs and totally lacks a lot of functions that you would normally get in word or any other transcription platform.

I worked at a hospital before they outsourced and we had dictaphones and typed in Meditech and it was very primitive.

I guess if you are interested, you find out how much a dictaphone costs and see if they would reimburse you for it. I know Nuance owns them and the hospital supplied ours.

I worked for them - on the meditech platform

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It is the most barbaric thing I have ever seen, or worked on. It gets stuck while typing and the most user unfriendly.

They furnished the dictaphone but you have to have totally unlimited long distance to dial into it, which I got screwed with Vonage and had to buy prepaid phone cards a couple times so I could work, and never got reimbursed for it. I can't believe they still use it, and this was 5 years ago.

Wow, I had Vonage too and had the same problem - they made me switch to a

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business account. So my monthly bill went from the $24.99 plus tax to $64 a month.

They advertise unlimited service, but if you are on your phone 8hrs a day working, they will raise your bill. They told me I was going over 5,000 and something minutes per month, which is what they call unlimited (5,000 minutes).

I shut them off and got my phone through Comcast where it was unlimited FOR REAL.

I've worked Meditech with a C-phone for years and made - money SM

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Meditech Magic does not work in Word, that is true - but - all the same funcions are there, they just have different keys to call them up. Microsoft has rights to their programming and function keys, and other programs that do not use Word cannot use (for example) CTL B for bold. So MTech uses Shift F1. Big deal. All the other functions like going back to correct, looking up old reports by patient or doctor, doing addendums, etc., are not hard - just different.

As for C-phones, Lanier, DVIs - any external recorder running off a regular phone line needs unlimited long distance, kinda common sense. My bills would come in 3 pages long and 10 to 13 thousand dollars tops, sometimes less, but my 'you owe' column was 50 bucks. And they always sounded better than these little hand-held digital do-dads the doctors use now. Im my opinion - there's nothing like a phone line for clarity with dictators that never bother to enunciate, American or otherwise. Plus, I could use my hands; the less mousing the more typing for me, but that's me.

I've made very good money on MTech and C-phone and Lanier. I might add, I've used MTech with Fusion Player through the computer and THAT was cumbersome between the two communicating. One has to wait for the other. you can never sign off one while pulling up on the other simultaneously, and have them both ready at the same time. Multiply that for over 100 reports and you just lost an hour.

Lastly - The only real problem I ever had working MTech was with one company I worked for that had it set up all wrong from the beginning, not knowing what they were doing, and their way of correcting that was not to redo it properly but to add yet another funtion to get to where you needed to be. And that snowballed into a nightmare, you spent more time fiddling around than typing just to get into a blank document. Sometimes IT departments can be the wrench in the system.

Agree with old but MTech has newer versions that are a breeze and work off of Word Pad - the hospitals need to upgrade for you.

Well definitely an up-grade is in order. Our Meditech - system was not so savvy - sm

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as I said, it was very primitive and we did not have an interface. We were actually paid 30 minutes downtime per shift for the amount of time it took to enter in demographics and such.

I am aware that there may very well be more up-graded transcription friendly Meditech programs out there, but I speak from MY experience.

Not to discourage anyone, but even the hospital saw that the system was not beneficial for us to transcribe in; however, before they were able to upgrade to a totally different system, which they kept promising and the director was going to bat for, we were outsourced.

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