Saving Keystrokes
Saving Keystrokes Books
- ISBN13: 9780781761079
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Saving Keystrokes will help medical transcriptionists maximize their speed, productivity, and profits by effective use of software programs called abbreviation expanders, speedtyping software, and word completion software. Written by a medical transcriptionist, this one-of-a-kind reference shows how to make expanders and macros for use with this software. The book teaches simple-to-learn techniques for developing right expanders and expander lists for near everything you type. Included are specific expander techniques for capitalization, punctuation, symbols, headings, drugs, numbers, and phrases for handling predictable and not-so-predictable dictators and other chart details. Do and test sections are integrated throughout the book.
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My new book came just so as described and was delivered very quickly. I would easily buy from this seller again. Thank you!
Rating: 5 / 5
I reckon this is a very brilliant book. It is fantastic for any medical transcription students who wish to learn about word expansion. Word expansion is in wide use in the medical transcription field, but many schools do not teach it. This is a fantastic book to use to start teaching yourself about word expansion. But, this book will only get you ongoing. Word expansion systems are complicated, and you will need to continue learning from additional sources to become dexterous.
Word expansion is an essential skill for medical transcriptionists who are paid based on production, and this book is a fantastic place to start. It does not give you glossary lists, though. It gives you suggestions on how to make your own expansion glossary in a systematic way that will be simple for you to remember. It is calculated for transcriptionists beginning to use word expansion, and I do not reckon it would be of much value to anyone with expansion skills above the intermediate level.
As an MT student, I am very pleased with this buy, and the book has provided me with invaluable in rank. But, much of the in rank is available on medical transcription websites such as [...], but I found it very helpful to have all these tips in the simpler to learn format that the book uses.
Additionally, I would urge starting to use some form of expansion software, other than AutoCorrect, as you start using the book. I did not do this, and now that I have ongoing using the Shorthand software I am finding that there are simpler ways to do some of my expansions with the software that would have saved me time in working on making my glossary of expanders. There is a list of programs in the back of this book, and most of these programs have free trials available so you can figure out which program works best with your brain without bringing up the rear any cash.
Rating: 5 / 5
Production medical transcriptionists, the tens of thousands of hard-working women and men who document your medical history, know that the key to making a living wage in this era of off-shoring, voice recognition, and EMR experiments, is the use of a word expander, software which converts ‘tpcosob’ to “The patient complains of shortness of breath.” Yet most medical transcription schools and community colleges fail to teach students to use these valuable tools. Diana Rolland wants hers to be the textbook these schools will use when they wake up to the realities of 21st-century transcription. Unfortunately, the book is poorly written and provides small in rank that can’t easily be found on the internet at http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/index.php or many other sites by googling ‘medical transcription productivity’ or ‘medical transcription expanders.’ One should also explore the web sites for the expanders themselves: Instant Text, Shorthand, and Stedman’s SmarType being the ones most frequently used by working MTs. Once again the publisher, Stedman’s, proves how out of touch it is with the needs of the working MT: This text may possibly have been made marginally helpful with the inclusion of a CD-ROM containing a complete, sensibly worked-out beginning glossary list (in each of the above 3 expander formats) incorporating all the standard sentence particles that comprise the bulk of the reports we transcribe, as well as names of diseases, drugs, and equipment, so that those new to expander use don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Instead, white space abounds on the majority of the pages as the author has provided hundreds of blank lines so that the reader can work out her or his own small forms and expansions following the examples given. Trees are crying over the publication of this text; if you must buy it, please buy it used.
Rating: 1 / 5
As a student enrolled with CareerStep, I learned about Saving Keystrokes from the student’s chatroom. From Amazon, I bought the textbook. After receiving it, I promptly read it and I was favorably impressed. I plot to incorporate the suggestions from Saving Keystrokes with my use of InstantText.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book certainly should be on every medical transciptionist’s desk. I read it cover to cover and did most of the worksheets. I have been an MT for over 30 years and have my own “system” of saving keystrokes but this had so many thoughts I had not plotting of; and an organized system that is simple to remember. I plot on reviewing this book regularly.
Rating: 4 / 5