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Radiology - KDT

Posted: Sep 30, 2014

Looking for a company that I can just transcribe x-ray reports for. Anyone have any info that could help me please???

Radiology work is disappearing even faster - than regular acute care work, - S/M

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because it's so easy to transition to point-and-click EMR that the doctors just enter themselves. I've been a radiology specialist for over 30 years, and can't find anything anymore. I wouldn't recommend working for a service, either. The best advice I can give anyone these days is to get out of medical transcription altogether.

Agree, that and front-end SR - sm

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My huge healthcare system has not had a rad MT in years. Point and click and front-end SR work very well for radiology reports.

Please, start looking for a way to retrain in a more viable career asap.

point and click and front-end SR--please explain - what that means...! :)

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I too have been "ejected" from Radiology transcription after 30 years in the biz, like everyone else. I frankly don't understand these terms, the technology terms that have made the field passe. I know it's considered 'easier' than the other specialties to do whatever it is they're doing to it/with it to make us thoroughly dispensable, but not sure why that is exactly. There's plenty of medical terminology used, all really--it's not telling a narrative "story" concerning a patient and not many "values" are used--maybe it's more repetitious than the other fields, but there seem to be plenty of Ortho jobs available, and in my opinion that field seems "easier" than Radiology. Thanks for your input--this might be a 'no brainer' for most people at this point, so apologies for my ignorance...!

radiology/ortho - merlena

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Yeah, you do see quite a few ortho jobs on there but from my experience, and from what I hear, ortho jobs tend to have poor dictators and the reason you see those jobs so much is because of that reason, and because they are such poor dictators they can't go VR.

What you say is true with any worktype, tho. NM - anon2

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Explanation - see msg

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Front end means the "user," as opposed to us, the "end user." SR means speech recognition.

Radiology is "easier" than acute care by the very fact that you don't transcribe out of the ordinary diseases, blood disorders, 25-letter lab tests, jumbled up lab values dictated so fast you don't know whether you're coming or going, medications, surgical equipment that changes faster than new meds come in, etc.

I am not negating the talent for being able to do radiology--you have to know your ligaments and other internal anatomy and terminology, but it's a whole different ball of wax from the multiple specialties and challenges that acute care brings.

An acute care transcriptionist can transition into radiology fairly easily, but not the other way around. Radiology will go "front end" faster than acute care for the reasons I mentioned above.

thanks for the explanation and I am not offended - by the implication that radiology is easier than a

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that's probably why I fell into radiology--the reasons why that happened, I do not even remember it goes back so far. But yes, funny about ortho; I did work for a doctor 25 years ago in ortho who was incredibly difficult to understand--I was told I was the only one "on the planet" able to understand him! :) And true, I know nothing about values, labs, numbers pertaining to same, etc., and probably don't want to know...! And to the other person, thanks for the tip about X-press. I do recall their having an ad a year or so ago on here or somewhere...and I did answer but they did not respond. Thanks so much!

I don't think radiology is any easier, terminology- - wise - after all, it takes the - sm

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transcriptionist all over the body. But I think it's easier to switch to SR because it's very repetitive, thus easy to train a machine to do.

Yes - Agree

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That's why I put "easier" in quotation marks. None of this is easy.

I guess what I meant was that the scope is wider on acute care (including 100s of doctors in a given hospital), that it would be much more difficult to box it into solely electronic thinking, whether it's ASR or one-stop templates.

Explanation - sm

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It is not because it is "easier," but because the reports are shorter and tend to be composed of more standardized material.

Point and click is template driven. Choices appear on screen. The radiologist clicks to select the choices he wants in the report. This can be a big section for how the test was done to individual diagnoses.

Front end SR is speech recognition that the doctor does himself. He speaks to a computer, which presents the text instantly, allowing him to make changes and learn from it. They get real good real fast. It never goes to an MT. No "editing" is necessary.

Try this. - k

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X-Press Transcription. All radiology, but not a lot anymore. Still pays 9 cpl. Does not advertise for MTs, does not test. The "technical staff" person is running the whole business, forget all other names on website. Also, Long Beach office has been closed for many years, webside grossly outdated. Virginia Beech office we believe is also closed, but company still in operation.

xpress - ugh

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I was hired by X-Press (Long Beach office) about 7 years ago. After filling out all their paperwork including direct deposit stuff, I was told they didn't have an account for me yet. And they never did. I finally stopped calling them because they never called me back.

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