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Escription Users: is it possible to do 400 lines an hour - Misty

Posted: Apr 24, 2013

Have not done VR since I worked for the M. Is the above platform easy to use because you would have to be flying through reports at today's going pay rates.

Easy platform but I cannot do 400 lph consistently - anon

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I can do 400 lph if the stars all align but typically I average about 220-250.

If you are supremely disciplined you could probably do 300ish would be my guess on a typical heavy ESL account.

Been in the biz for 14 years.

escription - what I do

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I can usually do about 300 to 350 pretty consistently. But I do have the speed of the dictation up as far as I can and still hear words. Still end up having to correct just every line though and this is one of the easiest platforms. It is just so frustrating to see that it cannot "learn" and just gets worse all the time. Time for a new career, but at 60 years of age, that is kinda hard these day. Been doing this 40 years.

I usually am able to do about 375 an hour - but the first hour or so

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averaging way up there sometimes, have seen 500-600 range but it averages out to about the 375 for the entire day. I also have to have at full speed in order to get that. I noticed someone said getting more lines on heavy ESL account. Sure don't know what they mean by that.

See, here's the thing - the system does learn - but if it is not managed well then it is garbage

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by managed well, I mean that there has to be consistency in the editing. If the doctor says something like 75 grams per deciliter and you change it to g/dL (per the account specs) but other people do not, then no, the voice engine does not learn.

It has to have consistency, and it will learn, but if there is no consistency in the editing, then it's no good.

There are ways - sm

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Sometimes you need to get creative with your time. You know how you have periods of time when you are on a roll? Keep going as long as that lasts. Then log out. Make sure you are only logged in while you are actively typing/editing. Any time you are not, log out. If you run to the bathroom/kitchen/answer the door/check your email, etc., you need to be off the ES clock. Of course, that being said, you will probably have a longer total day in order to get in your "time" (full 8 hours or whatever your shift requires). Just try it for half your shift and see what it does to your lph number.

Yes, but with a caveat - The system itself has to be well managed

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I just looked at my stats for my work since midnight and my lines/houro median is 432.7 and lines/hour average is 359.3. I've been sort of goofing off a bit tonight, too.

Here's the thing, though. I work for a healthcare system and not an MTSO. It's a large system, but it's managed really well. If there is a doctor who is a problem dictator, my transcription manager can talk to that person to help them with their dictations. It's what I call a closed system, in that it's a relatively controlled number of dictators, even if it's a large group, and the 40 in-house MT's are all pretty good about doing things consistently.

I can always tell when I'm getting work types that have been done by Nuance who does our overflow. Suddenly numbers will be spelled out instead of numbers, and other little things will require corrections that didn't before, because they are not following our account specs (which are ridiculously easy and not extensive).

Anyway, yes, 400 lph is doable, but with qualifications. I'm not sure it could be done with Nuance if you're working back and forth between many accounts or have one of those huge accounts with 25 hospitals feeding into it.

EditScript - cmsr

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It depends on the account. Sometimes I can transcribe faster than edit. I used to do straight transcription at 380 lines an hour, and now VR editing with ES some days I can only edit 350 lph. It all depends on the account, dictator, speech machine, and facility specs.

I prefer straight transcription vs VR, but that is just me.

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