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MTs input - Best and worst platforms - Carole

Posted: May 07, 2013

We are exploring new platforms. We want to know which ones work most effectively for MTs and which ones to avoid. Thanks for any input.

my vote - Fluency

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I love it. I wish they would get the kinks worked out, but if it worked the way it should, it would be amazing.

Fusion - love it!!! - nm

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I love Bayscribe. Very easy to use, know your line count sm - COMT

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and how much you earned with each report and grand total for the day.

Second vote for Bayscribe. - Escription is good, too

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Chartnet. Easy to use and get lines. nm - Longtimemt

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Blah,I hated chart net, so antiquated - nm

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My personal favorites are - sm

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DQS and EXText. There are others such as Bayscribe that were nice to work on, but the above 2 are the best hands down.

I second Dictaphone EXText. My lists inside. sm - 18yrs-experienced

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BEST - 1) Dictaphone EXText 2) EditScript - both work with your Word, your added shortcut program, your Autocorrect; both showed line count, past documents, etc. Loved editing on EditScript with edit functions, made going through editing much faster once those functions were learned.

WORST - InScribe/Emdat - Totally disagree with commentor on this one. Hated QT, hated that it doesn't coordinate with your Word and you have to add your separate glossary. Hated that it has it's own functions that just didn't seemed standard to me. Never could make decent lines due to bulkiness of program.

I third Dictaphone ExText - MT

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I was able to average 450+ lph VR on that system, with demographics filled in by dictator, next job automatically uploaded, minimal editing needed, quick editing shortcuts which kept your hands on the home keys and NOT the arrow keys. Sigh. Miss the company that used it(owner retired).

Inscribe by Emdat - me

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Inscribe by EMdat is the very best !! I would not want to work on any other platform. The demographics are to the side of your typing area for easy reference. You can access "prior reports" from both the physician and/or the patient which helps very much with trying to figure out what the physician just mumbled. It is super easy to learn...takes about 20 minutes. The boss says she has to pay "a lot" to use the platform but it is well worth it whatever she pays ! IMHO.

Down time - Carole

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Is there any down time with it? That's what our MTs are trying to avoid. The platform we're on now is always down and always kicking them out when they're trying to work or in the middle of a report.

Hate the QT (qualified text) -- a rip-off - anon

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The Qualified Text lines are paid at only 25% of the normal line rate (2 cpl not 8 cpl). So that's a way for MTSOs to cheat MTs. If we have to listen through the stuff, we need to be paid for it. But the MTSO can keep adding text to QT and the pay keeps getting lower and lower.

I keep hearing Escription is great, why is no - one mentioning it at all?

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I've never worked on it myself, so I can't speak firsthand, but it seems I'm always hearing it's the best. Or is this conversation only about straight transcription platforms or something like that that I missed?

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