Yes, you can do it several ways.

Posted by Maddie on December 20, 2004 at 10:43:40

In Reply to: Question about equipment for home worker posted by Ladybug on December 20, 2004 at 08:58:35:

You can go to the expense of another phone line with expensive digital equipment and have the doctor phone in his dictation. The problem I ran into with this setup is that none of my tape clients wanted to tie up their OWN phone lines doing their dictation, not even after hours. They like the portability of the handheld recorders. (In the car, in the kitchen, in the office.)

What I did as an alternative is I bought an Infinity WAV pedal off of eBay for $10 and PCAnywhere. You can either buy digital voice recorders/card readers for your clients or have them go to the expense themselves. On their end, they need to have PCAnywhere and have someone upload the voice files to a special folder so you can download the voice files via PCAnywhere connection. (They have to have their computer on at the time.) You then transcribe the notes, and copy the documents to their computer. You can either print on their printer or have someone in the office do it. Another alternative is emailing the voice files and documents, but this takes a long time. You can also set up an FTP site for uploads and downloads. HOWEVER, I did this all pre-HIPAA. I think you're going to need encryption software to address privacy issues. I haven't bothered checking into it because I dropped those two clients I was doing this for. (One didn't pay enough and the other was a very, very strange guy from New York.)

I still have two tape clients who totally refused my offers to digitalize their dictation setups. Oh, no, totally anti-technology there. That's what they have me for. LOL

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