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what are opinions on line counts per hour for MTs? - and with what criteria

Posted: Jul 16, 2010

I'm wondering if I fit in with the average...

I am a fairly fast typist, all straight typing, not many templates or "normals", but some, and I utilize a lot of shorthand... I average about 250-275 lines an hour, but when I get ESL doctors that drops me to around 200...

Does this sound about right?

Curious out how people do on their shifts, if someone is working 8 hours a day, which I do not because my wrists can't handle it, I'm trying to see how well I can work up to "full time" just with line counts rather than hours...

Wondering if others do this as well or if you have to work a full 8 hour shift... sometimes I do when there is only a few jobs an hour... but ... just trying to get the hang of this MTSO thing... used to having my own accounts and not worrying about it.

Just been at this a year, but a lot affects my lph - sm

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I work multispecialty clinic for a national, which is usually slow at least one of my workdays. I try to get in a few more hours on the busy days. My company requires a minimum of 5000 lines a week with 40 hours, on the lower side compared to most.

I can get about 190-200 lph with plenty of work, not taking a lot of breaks, and dictators I know well who say what they mean the first time. I'm still trying to train myself to use IT more and more.

When I am trying to fill in time to get my 40 hours and work is low, I will try to stay at least in the 135 to 140 lph range so that I can hit my company's first bonus tier (5500+ lines per week). I end up taking more frequent and longer breaks. When I am in my secondary account, I am slower just because I am not as familiar with the specs and docs.

I wonder too how I compare to others in my production--not such an easy thing to get a handle on when you are at home alone! :)

line count - depends

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Depends entirely on who I am transcribing and how they speak. Also, with new software, which we were not really trained on so had to figure it out as we went along, the commands were mouse based, and not all of them had corresponding keyboard commands. When I have to take my hands off the keyboard, I lose momentum. I had one doctor, who if I only did him, I was doing 550 lines an hours. Several other specialty clinics, I could do about 250-260 an hour. New doctors and/or CNPs trying to get their yearly hours in at the hospital, my line count drops to a ridiculous number. The doctors pause for minutes between phrases and then change their minds is another story. I never have any idea what account I am on any day, so my line count and therefore salary is a mystery to me. Making less now than 15 years ago, and I don't have the spirit to fight the system anymore. Looking for and working towards something else.

Wow. You guys are really really good. - sm

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I've been doing this 30 years, and even back in the heyday of MT, when they were counting gross lines and typed the same doctors again and again and again, I couldn't make anywhere near 500 lines. If I had a string of canned cataracts, I could maybe get up to 400, but 550? Never in 30 years have I been that fast.

I used to do a lot more, but the company software has - s/m

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bogged me down so bad, I'm lucky to do 100 lines per hour. And it most certainly isn't a steady rate, either. Sometimes I'll waste close to an entire hour just fighting with the crappy software.

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