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Transcription Program Recommendation? - Sally

Posted: Feb 22, 2012

Currently, I receive voice files by email, transcribe with Express Scribe, and print.

My doctor would like a way to be able to see what she has sent and what has been typed to be sure we are not missing something in the email, keeping up with tat and etc.

Hoping someone can recommend the best way to send and receive voice files so we both have access to the same information and with that information in an orderly fashion, something easy to understand and master the process of as well.

Thanks so much.

low-cost platforms - IC

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Having done a lot of research, I would suggest your best option is to pay for a FTP site where the doctor can drop the voice file and you do the same with completed documents. This can be free or cost up to about $50.

If you NEED a transcription platform, try Bytescribe's WebShuttle, but you are limited in file sizes, so be aware of that.

If you want to try a free FTP, try the one included with Express Scribe. I also highly recommend CoreFTP.

I would stay away from cloud services. They don't keep a log of what files are transferred/sent as required to meet HIPAA standards.

low-cost platforms IC - Sally

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Thank you! I had looked at Express Scribe but not CoreFTP. I took a quick peek and it looks like it might help me. Now that I have asked about "platform" maybe that was the wrong terminology. I just need a way to keep up with the dictations. Right now we are emailing individual notes, and they get mixed up and/or lost in email. I am not so brilliant with technology, wondering if you could tell me if the doctor has to have the same program on her computer, do I have it just on my computer and I could use it with other doctors as well, and do I have control over who sees what ? Thanks.

I will assume that when you say lost - IC

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you mean that the person receiving them is not good at keeping track of which email has what report in it. (you are meeting HIPAA compliance in sending the documents, right?)

If what you need is a way to keep it organized, the most simple thing to do is to return all of one day's dictation attached to one email. One of my clients sends parts of a day's dictation to me scattered over the course of a couple of days. I don't even start working it until I know I have all of that day's voice files. I save all the reports in a folder named for that day, and then use MPTools (for HIPAA compliance) to send all the reports for any given day back to their office.

So, you get Monday's dictation, save all the reports in a Monday folder, then do one email with all Monday's reports back to the office.

In case of strays, I use a "missing" folder. Once I email a missing report back to the office, I move that missing report into the correct folder for the date of service and the "missing" folder is empty again.

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