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Is 20000 lines a pay period possible? - Anon

Posted: Sep 02, 2010

I noticed a new hired is well cherry picking her way thru our ques but is it possible she can type 20000 lines in a 10 day work week - this is double any of us can do? We use express scribe could she be using some kind of speech to text program to get to this number. Her report counts are high and we all work on same accounts but produce at least half of what she does in the same amount of hours.

I truly need help understanding this?

Quite possible - eamb

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It is probably a lot of editing. I do a little over 10,000 each week (5 days), but and that's a big BUT, 85% is editing now-a-days for me. I'm not bragging by any means. I used to couldn't get near 10,000 a week. Editing has helped tremendously!

It's quite possible with straight transcription too. - Poppy

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250 lines per hour x 80 hours = 20,000 lines. No cherry picking needed. Ability to produce 250 LPH and more using an expander reachable by everybody.

I don't know what platform and transcription burdens you guys are operating under, but only doing half that does make me wonder why.

many obs - anon

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we have to check faxes, and type in all pat demographics... change site as per physician... its just not possible.. we dont use voice rec either its not editing. I use word expander for everything and I still struggle to hit 1000 lines? iwish i knew her secret

I see what you mean, anon. - Poppy

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Finding out her secret(s) sounds like a good idea! Even if she's another Judy (old friend who did 140 wpm on a Selectric), anyone who doubles production consistently probably has a good trick or two also. In any case, the bottom line is that you guys are paid appropriately.

can't speak for them, but for myself - sm

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The platform I use at one of my jobs keeps me from doing more than maybe 500 lines a day. There are something like 16 clicks to go through along with 2 fields of demographic info per report. If more than one report is dictated on a single voice file, those clicks and demo info double. Add into it a doctor who expects 100% accuracy at all times with no exceptions, and you've got a recipe for slow transcription.

This has been a learning experience. When someone says they can't do more than a couple hundred lines an hour, I believe them.

Abbreviations - SKR

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What kind of shortcuts does everyone use? I have a lot created but still have trouble getting the lines I need per day. Any suggestions for better shortcuts/what do you use??

abbreviations - Happy MT Robin

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Everyone has their own system for abbreviations, but I have found that there are a couple of things that have helped me tremendously. they slow you down at first, but after about a month it starts to really pay off. The first one is every time you make a typo, instead of just correcting it or waiting for the spell check to get it, put that into your expander with the correct spelling. It will make you crazy at first to slow down to do it, but it makes a huge difference in the long run.

The second thing, for me anyway, is to expand not only phrases, but long words. Heterozygous, for example doesn't come up that quickly in my option list (I use Smartype), so I changed it to htz. Proceed is prd. Little things like that. Any phrase that is two words is the first character of each word. I may expand that to use the second characters as well, depending on the combination if it's already used. Pap smear is psm, peripheral smear is pesm, etc. I add to it every day and every day I come across a new combination that I've been typing "straight" and an abbreviation pops into my head for it. You have to start thinking in your short hand.

Agree with Happy, just want to add - Poppy

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that it's amazing (and exciting) how quickly your lists build and you see the payback.

I would recommend for those whose expanders don't offer a system for shorts (SH does not) doing that up front. Start, for instance, with one- or two-letter shorts for all prefixes and suffixes, for example, and one letter for verb endings. These are then added to the short form you give a body of a word, like

xed extend (basic word)
xedd extended
xedj extension
rxedg reextending

After a surprisingly short while, your fingers remember all the commonly used short forms and you don't have to think about it or check the pop-up list, but having a system allows you to just know what less commonly used shorts are going to be.

I am sure it is possible especially if she has a - sm - YYC

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a STR program truly honed and set up well. I do about 18,000 lines a pay period without using any kind of STR but that is a mix of edit and straight typing (25/75 generally). Did close to 3000 lines yesterday...about 60% was straight, the rest was edits, very tired hands last night but I got all my work done so was quite happy!

str program? - anon

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This is straight typing we do not have editing for voice of any kind... that is why i think she is doing a speech to text through express scribe?

please tell me what is STR program and where can i get one LOL

Just a weird abbreviation I made up for Speech- sm - YYC

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Text Recognition, guess I should have spelled that out literally. She is probably using Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech Rocognition program. I have it myself (bought the medical version cheap, got lucky) but have not set it up with the dedication it requires. Snow Bunny uses it I know as I believe she has a health issue where this makes her life a lot easier. She has taken the time to fine tune though and is quite proficient with it I believe. ---What you would do, and what this MT is doing possibly that you are talking about is, they re-dictate the report as the doctor is saying it, into the mic of the head set they are wearing, then the computer program types it. Obviously it is time intensive to train the program to your voice and you have to learn how to format using your voice, etc. But once you have it down I am sure anyone can ramp up their production a lot. Maybe one day I will set mine up if I ever have to take a different IC job, but for now I am sticking to just typing it myself.

2000 lines a day is all it takes - I can transcribe that easily. - With VR, I can do more lines than that.

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So, yes it is possible.

thank you - anon

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i have my answer all of you feel its vr and i feel same. I guess we all were just left in dark but she must be using it somehow because 5 other people cant hit those lines in the same amount of time she has done over 3000 in a day ? and it blows our minds as to how.. now i have to figure it out we use express scribe and i ordered dragon for it as it says you can convert speech to text with the program - worth a shot

Dragon - SKR

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Where did you order it? I just searched and found it on sale for $38.99 & most of the other versions were around $100+. I don't know much about it but assume is compatible with express scribe or any other voice player. I use start/stop here.

dragon - anon

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i found it on amazon their web site has version 11 but ordered version 10 from amazon worth a shot - i will try it and see if i can get this to work and pass on the knowledge may be a saving grace for so many of us

Dragon - SKR

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I saw version 9 for $38.99.

Have you asked her.... - SKR

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how she is doing it so it may help you? It can't hurt to ask her. If you find out her secret, please share! :)

Yes it is. I average 2000+ lines per 8 hour day. - NM

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NM....2000 lines in 8 hours - SKR

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Is that straight typing or editing or both? Or VR?

straight typing - anon

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i am assuming straight as i have worked on these clients for 3 yrs and we are not on any kind of vr... so how is she doing so many? its strange i will do same amount of reports and she has double the lines i dont get it -

Can you ask her?? - SKR

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Doubtful she would share that info! - MTinNC

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But it can be straight typing. I type 93 words a minute.... a friend types 135 a minute. HUGE difference in our paychecks. She averages 2900 lines in an 8-hour day. I average 1000 in a 4-hour day. Conceivably, if my hands held out, 2000 a day is a definite possibility.

Yes = did 30,000+ last pay period - SM

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I just tallied up the figures from my last pay period, never having given thought to this before. I had 34,000 total lines (70% VR, 30% straight). Assuming I would maintain that 30% figure if it was 100% straight, that would still put me over 30,000 lines. It can be done.

30,000 lines - SKR

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That is amazing to me! You have to be doing something to help you get lines like that!!

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