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Need help setting up to get my own clients - Bluebird
Posted: Sep 23, 2014
20 years ago, like a lot of us, I worked at home typing dictations from cassettes on a typewriter! Recently I was asked by a health care provider if I can do her dictation notes on her own program, using her own templates, send them to her printer from my computer, like is done with the national company I work for. How do I do set this up in this day and age? Can I download her program onto a thumb drive and put in my own computer? How do I get her templates into my own computer. And, lastly how can I get her dictation to me without having to physically drive and pick it up, go back to the stone ages, purchase cassettes, handheld transcriber, etc. Thanking anyone in advance for any ideas, help, suggestions.
I don't do MT anymore, but I do transcribe - interviews for an acquaintance (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]of mine. I usually see her on the weekends, and when she has new dictation she just burns the sound files onto a CD which she hands me in person. It might be possible for your client to send the dictation files to you over the internet, as well.
After I finish transcribing the interviews, sending them back to the person I'm working for is easy. I actually do it two ways, per her request: I email her copy of the documents as a document file in Word, and I also put another copy in DropBox online in a DropBox file folder that we both share. I also keep a backup copy on my flash drive, just in case something happens to my computer.
I hope it works out for you! Good luck! :)
PS: I forgot to add that I use Express Scribe - with my foot pedal to do my work. (nm)
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Response to OP - Might be too hard
[ In Reply To ..]I know you didn't say this would be IC work, but it sounds like it. I personally feel like this is skirting the boundaries of what should be expected of an IC.
Essentially, you would have to have a license for the program she runs as well as the install files, your own login, access to it via a VPN to connect to their server remotely, and the ability to add remote printers.
So, pretty much unless they have an IT department that is willing to install all that stuff for you, it would be really hard for a layperson to do. Also, how is she going to get your the audio files. Remember that all electronic communications with PHI must by encrypted, too!
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