Need to make a business name

zengirl said:
MediScript is a company that sells prescription pads :lol:
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Two companies with very similar names.

http://www.medi-scripts-services.com/

http://www.mediscript.com/

Enemy said:
What's a medical transcriptionist? :wtf:
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Everything a doctor does to/for a patient is supposed to be documented in the chart. Some doctors still actually handwrite their notes, which for most of them is a baaaad idea, terrible handwriting and all. A doctor can also dictate his notes into a handheld recorder or other similar device, then someone has to listen to what he says, type it, and print it so it can be put into the chart, that's what MTs do. We have to know how to spell what they say, or know where to find out how to spell some of the words-certain docs have a habit of making up their own words, but the rough part is figuring out what the hell Dr. Mushmouth is saying. Trust me, most of them can't speak any better than they write. :tard:

Edit: Ack, too slow!
 
Nyx said:
Everything a doctor does to/for a patient is supposed to be documented in the chart. Some doctors still actually handwrite their notes, which for most of them is a baaaad idea, terrible handwriting and all. A doctor can also dictate his notes into a handheld recorder or other similar device, then someone has to listen to what he says, type it, and print it so it can be put into the chart, that's what MTs do. We have to know how to spell what they say, or know where to find out how to spell some of the words-certain docs have a habit of making up their own words, but the rough part is figuring out what the hell Dr. Mushmouth is saying. Trust me, most of them can't speak any better than they write. :tard:

Edit: Ack, too slow!
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I see. So audio typing basically. I do that a lot at my job (I'm a medical secretary). I only type up letters though, not charts etc. Doctors may have terrible writing but I find their secretary can always read it anyways, you get so used to it. I know all the nuances of my doctors writing etc. I've had companies ring to offer services where we can send them tapes and they type it up over night for us quickly etc. but there's no way I'd outsource it, for lots of reasons: You don't know the doctors shorthand like his secretary will, you don't know certain doctors in the hospital (we often get tapes telling us to write to 'john' etc.).

Do they actually send you the patients medical notes for you to file it in etc? Cos we're not allowed them outside the hospital, and sometimes you have to refer to them to make sure of something.
 
Enemy said:
I see. So audio typing basically. I do that a lot at my job (I'm a medical secretary). I only type up letters though, not charts etc. Doctors may have terrible writing but I find their secretary can always read it anyways, you get so used to it. I know all the nuances of my doctors writing etc. I've had companies ring to offer services where we can send them tapes and they type it up over night for us quickly etc. but there's no way I'd outsource it, for lots of reasons: You don't know the doctors shorthand like his secretary will, you don't know certain doctors in the hospital (we often get tapes telling us to write to 'john' etc.).

Do they actually send you the patients medical notes for you to file it in etc? Cos we're not allowed them outside the hospital, and sometimes you have to refer to them to make sure of something.
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Very true, no one knows a particular doctor's dictation quirks like the office staff, which is why I think the job should be done in office or at least by one person who is familiar with his/her dictation, but that's not the opinion of the business in general, unfortunately. Outsourcing seems to be the industry standard, at least for hospitals. When I worked in office I could ask someone else what he was saying, which I did a LOT for the first three days or so-that doc's dictation was some of the worst I've ever heard-or look in the chart and confirm what I thought I was hearing. Now I'm working from home, getting voice files over a VPN, and they don't give us any background information whatsoever to use. On the other hand, this company is quite accepting of blanks, and the hospitals fill them in where necessary, so not being able to decipher a particularly horrible dictation becomes their problem, not mine. Again, it's not what I call a great system, but it works for me and apparently for everyone else involved too.
 
Nyx said:
Very true, no one knows a particular doctor's dictation quirks like the office staff, which is why I think the job should be done in office or at least by one person who is familiar with his/her dictation, but that's not the opinion of the business in general, unfortunately. Outsourcing seems to be the industry standard, at least for hospitals. When I worked in office I could ask someone else what he was saying, which I did a LOT for the first three days or so-that doc's dictation was some of the worst I've ever heard-or look in the chart and confirm what I thought I was hearing. Now I'm working from home, getting voice files over a VPN, and they don't give us any background information whatsoever to use. On the other hand, this company is quite accepting of blanks, and the hospitals fill them in where necessary, so not being able to decipher a particularly horrible dictation becomes their problem, not mine. Again, it's not what I call a great system, but it works for me and apparently for everyone else involved too.
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That's fair enough, it would work really well if they had different people for different specialities, because after doing one specialism for years you get to know all the words used in that department.

If we didn't type up all the clinic letters then that would mean we had lie 20% less work, so it works to our advantage to keep it in-house. If a department gets a back log they just hire a temp to do all the typing, we don't have people just employed to type all the time.
 
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