New Voice Transcription Software Released to Market

Screaming Bee LLC is pleased to release a new voice transcription product to market. Voice Again™ software can slow down an audio recording up to 10 times without changing pitch. The software is especially designed for analysis and transcription of vocal recordings.

"Voice Again makes it easier to transcribe an interview or dictation," explains Mark Ramirez, CEO of Screaming Bee. He adds, “Users can now listen to a voice recording at a wide variety of speeds. We’ve also added intuitive bookmarking and navigation tools that will save time and boost productivity.”

Voice Again is a software tool designed to assist in analysis, transcription and documentation of voice recordings. The software can slow down or speed up a recording making it easier to transcribe interviews or dictations. The high-quality signal processing in the software maintains clarity at variety of speeds.

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The Paradoxes of Radiology Transcription

The radiology transcription industry involves numerous apparent contradictions which are, nonetheless, true. I believe the resolution of these paradoxes lies in finding the right balance in one's personal work, in radiology departments reaching reasonable compromises, and in the entire industry cooperating in the interest of both quality and economy.

Individual MTs: Balance
This necessary balance is especially apparent in the many paradoxes of individual MTs/editors' skills and innate characteristics. For example, we as radiology MTs need to have endless patience to correctly analyze a new dictator's accent while contending with static or background noise. On the other hand, we must also retain a sense of urgency to maintain a quick turnaround time of anywhere from 2 - 24 hours.

MTs must balance flexibility with dependability. Adjustment to the constant ebb-and-flow of radiology work is necessary, and we should be available to add extra work to our schedules yet be flexible enough to accept an occasional famine of work.

Furthermore, we as editors/MTs must have a love of learning new medical vocabulary and have a fascination with words while still being willing to endure the constant repetition of more routine reports.

Finally, though we continually keep in mind the seriousness of confidentiality, accuracy, and productivity, MTs/editors also need to cultivate a sense of humor. I have to laugh every time our voice recognition engine "thinks" of yet another novel misinterpretation of "menstrual dates." Of course, many of us have snickered when our harried radiologist, in the days of hand-held microphones, dictated his report while eating a bag of chips. Humorous things sprinkled throughout our days are what brings the spice to our work.

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Leading Medical IT Company to Offer Training in Jamaica

Career Step, a leading provider of medical transcription training, has partnered with healthcare IT specialists, HCIT Solutions, to help develop the Jamaican medical transcription field.

"We are extremely pleased to partner with Career Step to provide a best-in-class medical transcription training programme to Jamaicans seeking careers as medical language specialists," President and CEO of HCIT Solutions, Dr. Saleem Josephs said.

"It is quite evident that the leading U.S. medical transcription service organisations (MTSOs) value the academic rigour and training of a Career Step graduate, and partnering with the right training platform is critical to creating value for both the people of Jamaica and HCIT Solutions' strategic partners."

HCIT Solutions is introducing the Career Step training programme to provide Jamaican students with the skills and tools they need to produce high quality transcriptions from dictated audio files of doctor-patient interactions. These transcribed reports become part of a patient's permanent medical record, including electronic health records.

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Medical transcription service sector declines

Cebu City — While the Philippines, especially Cebu, continues to be a magnet for business process outsourcing companies worldwide, the medical transcription sector is beginning to show symptoms of decline.

Mawit Go, chief marketing officer of Northern Transcription Works (NTW) which pioneered medical transcription in Cebu, noted that the industry has hit a “snag” with the lack of aggressive promotion on top of the peso’s volatility against the US dollar.

“The volatility of the local currency, especially in 2007-2008, has really made Philippine-based medical transcription providers uncompetitive against other countries like India,” Go said.

Medical transcription is the process of converting voice dictation, typically either cassette or digital forms, into a permanent written record utilizing word processing equipment and software.

She related that in her promotional trips abroad attending exhibitions on medical transcription, she observed that Indians are very aggressive in selling their service to clinics and hospitals in the US.

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