When do you capitalize departments? I have been in the biz for 10 years, and my current QA staff is giving me conflicting feedback on my capitalization. One QA manager is giving me errors for not capitalizing, the other is giving me errors when I do! I was always taught that you didn't capitalize the department unless it was preceded by the proper name of the hospital (XYZ Hospital Emergency Department, etc).
Also, as far as specialties, how do you handle those? For ...
Anyone have any experience as a transcriptionist/scopist for them or know anything about them? (I know, not medical transcription, but like a lot of us, I'm looking for other transcription work to make ends meet).
TIA! ...
Like I've said before, Nuance cannot figure it out! I understand having a good QA team, but that does not mean picking apart every comma, typo, and, it, and but particularly when their own product "Dragonspeak" a Nuance product being used by doctors in their own offices makes the most shocking of errors and those errors are going directly into the patient's charts without being fixed. Doctors simply do not have enough time in the day, to fix these errors. I have seen ...
I have a dr. who consistently says all capital letters for that. I always thought it was just scarf because it had to do with the type of incision. ...
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The _______ was displaced laterally, reducing the deformity, impacted, temporarily fixated, and then fixated permanently with the AO technique using the 2.4-mm cannulated Synthes screw.
Sounds like capital foramen? New podiatrist, unable to figure out. Need sleep so bad.
Thanks so much in advance. ...
Hoping there are some masters in Microsoft Word on the board today.
I have a document to edit that was originally a poem, and each line starts with a capital letter, i.e.:
I went to the
Store and bought
Some milk.
I need to go through and lower-case the words in the document that need to be (Store=store, Some=some).
Does anyone know any tips/tricks/shortcuts that will help me do this quicker? I thought of find and replace, but some of the words actually do start a sentence in othe ...
I have a sister who is the head of med rec in a hospital in Iowa. This hospital is part of a large system. They are moving to VR within the next year. Those MTs are worried about their jobs. I told my sister to give them a heads up - their $20+/hour jobs will be gone. Their superb benefits will be gone. I feel for them - this is happening to all of us - being paid peanuts for our experience and knowledge.
They already have EMR in place and there are patients who, once they've log ...
did your dog get loose and you had to chase it down?
are you having technical maladies?
GSD begins at 12AM tonight and continues through 11PM TUESDAY MAY 1ST.
The next direct action after May 1 will involve AHDIs so-called MT Week so stay tuned and save up your pennies or your courage. Whatever it is you lack. You can do it! You can!
(You can always cut your production in half for the duration of Strike Day, or some fraction that suits you, if you just cannot manage to muster the minimal cou ...
I have been going back and forth on this, but doc says, "He was also found to be hypertensive. Patient's hypertension was managed by *anesthesia* and a 12-lead EKG was obtained."
My gut is wanting to capitalize anesthesia to show that it was the anesthesiologists in the Anesthesia Department who managed the hypertension rather than anesthesia itself, but then again, maybe not?
Would it be safer to not capitalize it? ...
This one has me second guessing myself. Dictation is: Per the department of oncology, the patient is reminded to return in 2 weeks. Would you capitalize department and oncology or not? Thanks so much for your help! ...
I have always been under the impression that when a department is used as an entity, such as "The patient was seen by the Pulmonary Department," that it would be capitalized. If it were "The patient was seen in the pulmonary department," it would not be capitalized. This is to denote that in the first example, the patient was actually seen by a person, not by the department itself (a thing). I think this is an important distinction for clarity.
The account I am on is saying that pulmo ...
I received an email recently from my company stating that they were undergoing a random DOL audit followed by a questionnaire in the mail from the DOL...which the company stated was voluntary and it was up to us to decide if we wanted to answer it. Just wondering if anyone has experienced this and knows what is going on and how this could affect our jobs? I am currently working as an independent contractor on a Veterans Affairs account and would like to keep my job...a ...
Since the lack of county funding for the health department, she has been on "total overload for so long."
I think I am reading AAMT as in, health department needs no capital,.. however I am wondering about 'county.' ...
With HIPAA regulations tightening on who can get a carbon copy of a patient's medical record, MTs should NOT have the responsibility of sending any carbon copies at all. All carbon copy requests for a patient's records should go directly to the hospital's medical records dept for a signed release verification from the patient for that copy to be sent. Reports being sent from any outside provider without the proper signed release from the patient should be consider ...
I will be relocating there soon for my husband's job and need to find another hospital or clinic transcription job. I'll wash dishes somewhere before I go back to one of the nationals after what I experienced with Nuance purchasing my wonderful company, so I'd really like to find something in a local hospital. If they let us work remote after a short training period, pretty much anywhere in Arizona would do.
Feel free to send a private message if you don't any to cause a flo ...
Just curious,
Has anyone, working for Webmedx, received an anaymous call, from the Department of Revenue, requesting information about your salary at Webmedx, stating they received your information as part of a list of employees from Webmedx???
I declined to answer as the individual could/would not provide any identifying information, including name, and the number was blocked.
Please advise as I am concerned about possible identity theft, especially in light of the fact that I am not e ...
Is there anybody here who worked for a hospital in the transcrption department only to have their jobs yanked out from under t hem and sent to a National such as Nuance? I know somebody who works for a local hospital and it looks like they secretly are in the process of making this move....some very strange secretive things going on that makes me wonder...... What was the process for your hospital if this happened to you????? I'm wondering if my suspicions are spot-on. &nb ...
I've been observing Medquist/M*modal for the past number of years since their previous law suit. The technologies they have employed as of late are widely viewed as intentionally inhibiting, many employees stating that this speech recognition program, as well as constant shuffling of work pools, or "pods" prevent the familiarity that is central to profit,accuracy, and productivity. I intend to gauge the interest and willingness of participation in the current M*modal employee community. Pl ...
I am currently looking for a new online job. I have been doing medical transcription for nine years now but work for a small hospital. I do not currently have, nor does my hospital require, the AAMT book of style to be the set rules for our transcription department. We still use q.h.s. etc. I recently had a job interview but blew it because the company requires their MTs to know the latest AAMT book of style front and back. Is this a big deal to know this book word for word? Wonderin ...
Our medical records department has just been outsourced to Precyse solutions. I have looked at a lot of posts, but most are old and I was wondering if anyone has any input to help me decide to take a job there.... thanks in advance! ...
If you have, can you explain the process? Did you supply them with a weekly log of your hours? Did you file to the state you reside or the Department of Labor where your company has its main office? How long did it take to get your check;-) How were you paid - did they figure an average hourly rate as we are paid per line? Any info appreciated. ...
I am curious if anyone is an at-home transcriptionist who works for a hospital and how the department covers weekend shifts/hours. Also curious what kind of hours you are required to work during the week and how many people are on the transcription team. Or if you'd just share what your company does for scheduling and what the hours are. I am looking for some ideas for our team.
Small hospital. Weekend coverage only includes priority jobs (H&Ps).
Thanks! ...
I was wondering if anyone had successfully filed a claim with the Department of Labor regarding unpaid time waiting for jobs or being "engaged to wait." ...
Can someone explain to me why, if I get paid by the line, I spend so much time looking up doctor names, facility names, the local burger joint, etc, but I don't get paid for that? ?? I am going to throw in the towel with transcription and look for a job that pays by the hour. This line stuff is a joke. Can't get up speed or stay with a rhythm for stopping to try to find names of people, places and things. ...