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What are your production tips? - msrl

Posted: May 15, 2011

I know that everyone says there is no money in VR, but sometimes you have to take the job you are given and be thankful for that.

The account I am working on is 99% VR. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on being productive. For example, do you look at your report first and fix any obvious errors and then listen to the dictation or do you just jump right in with the dictation and do it all then?

Currently, I make about 5cpl for VR, which compared to some quotes I have read is pretty "ok" for VR.

I really am just curious about production tips.

Thanks in advance.

I start at the top with dates, verifying ID, etc., work top to bottom, - then send. Streamlined technique to

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do nothing twice if possible, even including reviewing my own work. Remember, the report has already been typed, so our review is meant to be the final one.

Of course, this is an ideal to work toward for speed and not always possible. If I don't feel I'm in top form, like when I've just rolled out of bed, I'll do a quick scan, especially for me double-checking patient ID, then send. Of course, difficult reports and those horrible ones that require extensive retyping may require a more careful check before sending.

VR - noni

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Are you saying you don't listen to entire reports?

that message was plain as day to me. The person is saying he/she starts - at the beginning and goes to the end

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No indication in that post at all that said, "I dont' listen to the entire report."

Thanks. :) To be totally clear, every word of every report is - listened to. Cheating NOT recommended. NM

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to clarify - noni

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I was merely asking because you said you quickly scan and I never have reports I can do that with. Just curious about accounts that might have ASR reports that don't require much editing and how to get one. :)

However, I got a job today that's straight typing, hopefully for a long time. I'm trying not to turn cartwheels around my house.

I know. It's like night and day tidying up mostly clean - reports and mucking away at the messes.

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I understand why you'd dislike editing if it's all slop, regardless of pay rate. Hope your job does last at least long enough for the industry to get its act better together.

Another is speeding the dictation up AMAP. Pushing - yourself over time will make you faster. NM

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Make macros for repeat corrections and give them very - VERY short names. Goal: To read and listen as

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fast as you can listen and to correct without stopping. This just isn't possible as the frequency of corrections rises, of course, but it is a goal to push, push, push toward in ones with few corrections. Also, the more familiar you are with a dictator, the faster (as usual).

What do you do if you can't use macros? - Shirl

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I make them, but many will be gone the next time I log in. They'll work until I shut down the system for the day.

I made Alt+9 to go down and delete the cc line a couple of days ago. Now it won't work. I made Alt+[ to make the font Arial 11 and that one still works. I don't get it.

Shirl, mine are all stored in MY expander. I don't use company - storage at all. I do copy company-provided macros

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a lot, though, incorporating them into many further shortcuts of my own; BUT, again, they're all stored in my expander on my computer.

All the work tools you create for yourself should be kept "at home." What if some morning you went to log on some morning and found yourself laid off and locked out? What if your company just for some reason decided they belonged to them, not you? As you come to depend heavily on more and more of them, that would be far more devastating than if an employer decided to seize your car because it was parked in their garage.

BTW, I just reread your question. If I couldn't use macros I'd have to get another job. I'd have no choice.

I'm going to try making them in my copy of Word, but what's odd - Shirl

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is that EXText Word IS my copy of Word. We have to provide it ourselves. It should stick, shouldn't it?

Anyway, I'll pull up plain old Word instead of making them while I'm logged in through EXText and see if that works.

Why are macros easier than saving in AutoCorrect? - dumbdumb

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I go through and format first - mt

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That way once it is all formatted, I can just breeze through the report and fix any grammatical errors. I also speed them up considerably if they are an understandable dictator.

Wow, 5 cents a line? Good for you. Most of us make 4, including me. That 1 penny makes a difference. My holiday pay is 1 penny more per line, made a $20 difference in pay that one day. :)

Depends. On some, there are so many errors - and none of the headings

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are formatted, it is easier to fix blatantly wrong stuff and then do the listen. Others I do as I go.

Technique has to be right for the person. On bad ones I still - start at the top and finish at the bottom. NM

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Right for me.

Use pauses in dictation to scan completed parts above - for errors. Even little pauses. NM

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