rate for "editors" on a per report basis

[woodman]

Does anyone know what the going rate is for "editors" on a per report basis?

The hospital that I transcribe for is talking about going to vioce recognition (Powersrcibe)

[busymt]

I work for a transcription service and just about everything is going to speech recognition. We're switching over to a new platform that is supposed to make our lives easier, but the result is our line rate for SR jobs will go down. It will be a little over 1/2 of the regular transcription rate. Hope this helps!

[dlcntn]

I work for a major hospital in Knoxville TN. We started transitionng about two years ago to the voice rec systems. I personally do not care for it. Not all of the physicians are "turned on" because of they are just too hard to understand. Fortunately for us, we are paid by the hour and not by the line. I find it very cumbesome to have to edit the reports and put them in the proper format. I could type the report faster than I can edit it. Things that need to be in a list, such as medications, past history etc, never come out correctly. The doctors have a habit of saying "Number 1" and then after that instead of saying number 2 they just say next number and the VR type next#. I prefer to just type the report, however I understand that this is the way things are going and there is nothing I can do about it. I also do a side job for some docs that still use tapes and another that uses digital recorder so I still get to do some typing.

[brendajh]

Yes, this voice recognition is hard to get used to. I work on the Cornerstone platform, and every time a physician is not doing voice recognition, I wonder why. I lot of them can't make the grade, because they talk too fast, or they have such a terrible accent, the VR engine can't understand them.

I can't really get used to certain dictators, because I have to do whatever comes into my queue. All transcriptionists that work for my company work at home. The Cornerstone platform uses Control+N for major headings. If you have text after a heading like "includes", then you have to manually type that as your first line and then manually number a list. It gets hard when you have 20 medications, and they say "His medications include...." Normally, our lists are Control+L and include bulleted lists. I end up doing a lot of deleting.

On the plus side, if a Dr. always dictates "6 MV photons", that always MV is going to appear on the screen. So when you get an email from the supervisor, that the doctor says you have been typing Mv instead of MV, you wonder what went wrong, because I always hear him say the same thing and the same thing always appears on the screen. I just follow the highlighted cursor.

[cindym]

I operate a small (now very small) home-based MT company and get my work from a hospital in Ohio. They have recently switched over to VR and so half of the doctors my company was providing transcription for have switched. I had to let 3 typists go in the last month. I have been told there "might" be an "editing" job for me, if all of my current clients switch to voice recognition. So, you're saying that instead of 11 CPL, the going rate for "editors" is 5 CPL and the work is more cumbersome and slow because we have to fix the doctors' mistakes?