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Emdat Inscribe - it involves a lot of steps to do everything - Veronica

Posted: Sep 21, 2011

I just finished the Etrain for Emdat Inscribe and at this point not sure how I will like this platform. It seemed as though it involves a lot of steps to do everything. Is this because I'm just not used to it and will it get better for me as I begin to do work? Lately every company I work for has some awful type of platform that makes it impossible to produce a good amount of work. Please share your experience in how long it took you to become proficient on this platform. Thanks.

I love it - EmdatQA

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I've been using it over 2 years now. Yes there are a lot of steps, but it is designed to keep your hands on the keyboard and off the mouse. Once you get accustomed to using it, you can make a good line count. There is a chart they have you can print that lists all the key strokes to do the functions you will use.

A lot of how much you like it is going to depened on how much demographics is entered correctly by the dictator and whether or not your company pays the same for standard transcription versus canned text (called qualified lines in Emdat).

Can you answer a question for me please? - sm

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I just started a job Monday that uses this and I wonder do you have to keep hitting F12 to check for work? I will do that and nothing comes up, but just wonder for sure. Emailed my boss, but she must be busy.

yes - - EmdatQA

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There is another way to set it to automatically pull work in, but I've found the feature doesn't do it the way it is supposed to work. Use F12 to pull in work.

If you work for OTT expect no reply at times - Bev

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And you will run out of work a lot. Hitting F12 will bring up the next report only if there is one in the pool.

With Emdat Inscribe there are so many areas you fill in the information and you're not paid for and that's the only thing I don't like about it. Have used it for 3 years and it is easy once you get the hang of it.

Paid Information - EmdatHelp

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There are sometimes some misconceptions on how line counts are tallied. There is an article here that explains (in detail) what sections are counted: http://www.emdathelp.com/activekb/questions/347/Character+Counting+Explanation

Basically, anything on the left hand side (demographics) that is able to be typed is counted. Even if the patient name comes in automatically, you get credit. Any dates are counted as 8 characters (MMDDYYYY) whether you enter them manually or not.

All the information in the associate (CC) section is also counted whether you pull it from a list or type it manually (this includes the name, address, phone, etc).

We try to make it so that if you do work, you get paid for it. Let me know if I can answer any specific questions for you.

Simplicity rules. I work for a company that uses - sm - Cranberry

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2 platforms; one is their own, which has a jillion steps in order to do every function. It's too slow to be believed! The other platform they use is E-scription, which is simple, fast, and basically trouble-free. We can do a lot more lines per day on E-scription. Unfortunately, our company knows that, and they pay less per line while working in E-scription. So, in our case, it doesn't matter which platform we're on, since either way, we lose.

I have found that about the only platform that really is - s.m.

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user friendly is DQS. I also just started working on Emdat (2 days ago to be exact). It is a lot to learn, but I think I am already getting used to it. I wish they all used DQS.

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