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Question about Meditech - mia

Posted: Sep 08, 2010

I have an opportunity to cover weekends on an account that uses the Meditech platform. I have not used this before. Is it difficult to learn? Are there many steps or can you fly through it?

Somewhat detailed but not worst program-- I kind of liked after a while - dlll

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It takes about 2-3 weeks to get used to and after a while I grew to like it. Unfortunately, that account went bye-bye. But as another poster said a few months back, could always get her lines with Meditech and I found that to be true. I worked hard all day, but at least the lines were there.

Meditech - Mia

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Thank you everyone for your input. I have been typing on emdat and this will be a huge change.

Meditech - medtyper

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Just don't expect it to be like Word and you will be fine. There is a spell check but you have to add your own words to the user dictionary. Most of the functions are case sensitive, i.e. a lot of caps in the fields. In radiology, there are a lot of screens to go through before actually filing the report. I worked on it for 15+ years and loved it.

Meditech - Sunshine State MT

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I used to like it because I was on the newer version that had a magic screen where you could look anything up you wanted on the patient, laboratory results, allergies, EKG results, and basically fill in your own blanks.

Now, I'm on the older version where you can't look anything up and I don't like it as much.

I really hated the dictionary they use because there is like nothing in there, you have to constantly add words, add words, etc.

Our reports were just basic reports with no bolding or underlining so I ended up typing the reports in Word or Wordperfect and I copied and pasted over to Meditech, and while that was going on, I was starting to type the next job. That worked best for me to copy and paste. I always made my lines on Meditech.

If you are going to type in Meditech, I would suggest printing out their FUNCTION KEYS. It's gonna come in handy.

Make sure you have an expander program.

All in all, I liked it.

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