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Tips on short reports - Gray

Posted: Jan 13, 2015

I got switched to a new POD and went from accounts with long reports to one with really short ones, like at least half of them are less than a minute. Between downloading and uploading and time spent in ADT, I'm struggling with my line count and I'm wondering if anyone has good tips for how to approach these short reports in order to maximize line count.

Please only respond with real tips if you actually happen to know any from experience (sorry, find a different job doesn't count ).

Much of my account is the same until we get into the - afternoon and finally

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get the OP reports. I have found that I can set my speed at 1.6 or 1.8 and just barrel through them. I just stay focused and move from one to the other as quick as possible. I find it much faster to use the mouse to get through the spell check and upload the job and click for the next job. I do occasionally bring the speed down for the occasional job that is a bit more difficult. I pass most of my audits with 100% with an occasional job here and there scored at 99.75.

Thanks! - Gray

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I am not ready for those speeds as I am not familiar enough with these docs yet, but I am up to 1.2 to 1.4 on some of them. I don't use the mouse much, but I do use it to quickly scroll through the report and find the words and headings underlined in green and red so that I can correct them and avoid even opening up the new obnoxious correction panel thingy. They made it totally keyboard shortcut unfriendly, and it just takes too long.

I had the same accounts, mainly 3 hospitals that were all part of the same group for 3.5 years, the whole time I had worked for Mmodal until about a month ago. I was very familiar with the profiles and the doctors. I had everything memorized. Now I have this huge list of hospitals, clinics, and whatever (I think I counted 65)that although predominantly part of the same group, have all different profiles so I don't think I will ever be able to memorize them. I am getting faster at scanning the profiles, but it still adds time that before I just didn't have to spend because I had everything memorized. Plus, before I frequently had reports that were 500-1000 seconds long, so lots of lines without all the time taken to download/upload a zillion reports per hour.

We are getting faster internet just for me because ours is so bad, so that should help considerably with the download/upload time and time to look things up.

I prefer the short reports - sm

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For some reason I focus on them better. They seem easier to check over because you have to remember less. I would love to have a day full of them rather than the OP reports.

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