[Jobs] Hand-written materials.

[Judy Jones]

Hi,

I believe most are faxed over.

Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "laurie porter" <freespirit1 at tds.net>
To: "Jobs for the Blind" <jobs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Jobs] Hand-written materials.


> Your stratagies for dealing with handwritten materials are one's I've 
> tried
> too. When I was a receptionist, I had the task of reading and responding 
> to
> the handwritten letters. As time past, it became less efficient to do that
> phase of my job, because   I needed to do data entry and the processing of
> the requests would have required me to have a reader looking over my
> shoulder all day long. Perhaps one can look into how the perscriptions 
> reach
> you in the first place. Are they brought to you by the public or sent over
> via image file or are they handed over to you after they've been filled? 
> If
> so, than  there may be a text record of  them somewhere in the actual
> processing of them. Good luck with this. I'm told that Doctors are 
> notorious
> for having illegible handwriting. --Grin-- 
> From: "Judy Jones" <judy.t.jones at earthlink.net>
> To: <jobs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:34 PM
> Subject: [Jobs] Hand-written materials.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to hear from others on how they've dealt with hand-written
> materials on the job, especially in dealing with handling doctors'
> prescriptions on the job with a medical company.
>
> As a teacher, I hired reader assistance and did my paper grading 
> off-hours.
> As an office worker, I either traded job duties with a sighted colleague, 
> or
> I organized my work so I could take care of hand-written info for an hour
> during the day with a reader.
>
> Would be very interested in hearing what other people do, as I have a 
> chance
> to work for a medical company in our area.  The manager is concerned how I
> would handle the volume of doctors' prescriptions that come in and have to
> be checked for mistakes in the insurance billing and coding.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Judy Jones
>
> http://mpm.imttrack.com/t/c/sonshines/mpm1/
>
>
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