Recent Blog Posts
5 Qualifications Your IME Transcription Vendor Must Meet
The Fine Art of Transcribing Independent Medical Examinations/Evaluations and Other Related Reports: Peer Reviews, Impartial Examinations, Independent Medical Assessments, Vocational Assessments, Functional Capacity Evaluations, Impairment Ratings, Second Opinions, Return To Work Evaluations, Fitness For Duty Exams, File Reviews, etc. We’ve been doing IME transcribing for 20+ years, and we’ve seen clients come to us… Read More »
Tips for recording meeting with optimal sound quality
A Quality Recording = a Quality Transcript Choose an appropriate recording device and microphone. Make yourself familiar with the equipment you are using before you begin. Better equipment will provide better audio and a better transcript. Below are a few suggestions. We offer deep discounts on these products and ongoing support for the life… Read More »
Scanning Legal Files for Practice Management and Remote Access
It’s 9:30 a.m. and already your tension is building. To answer a client’s question, you flip through documents, certain the answer is just seconds away. However, it’s a large file and the minutes turn into a half hour. Meanwhile, the phone is ringing and your email is pinging. You know it’s time to take… Read More »
Stop the Pain! There’s a Better Way to Transcribe Legal Recordings
Transcribing audio and video recordings, interviews and caption reports is, let’s face it, a painful endeavor for legal staff and an expensive use of resources within a law firm. Not only is the transcription process time-consuming, all the starts, stops and rewinds can frustrate even the most experienced typist. Brown & Meyers has been… Read More »
Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps healthcare organizations mine transcribed data to enhance patient care, improve profitability, and comply with HIPAA
Do you know how many cases of pneumonia your providers treated last year? Do you know how they treated the condition and which treatments were the most effective? Natural Language Processing (NLP) allows you to access data so that you can enhance patient care while simultaneously improving your organization’s bottom line. The problem with… Read More »
Protect yourself from spam — free
I don’t know about you, but I get tons of spam every day. For that reason, I’m leery of giving my email address to any site online. It’s easy enough to create a fake address that you use for those cases when you’re not sure if the address you give will be sold to… Read More »
Is Converting To EHR Really Beneficial For Patients or Practices?
We are all subject to the coming changes in the way our healthcare is delivered and the way our personal health information is managed. On one hand we look at it as a positive thing, being better for the environment as everyone is trying to “go green” and decrease their carbon foot-print. In some… Read More »
Is PHI Lurking In Your Photocopier?
While attention has been focused on the security (HIPAA violation) risks posed by laptops, smartphones, flashdrives and more sophisticated electronic devices, humble office photocopiers have been quietly accumulating personal data on hard drives most of us didn’t know were there. A CBS News investigation reveals the ease with which clever identity thieves can access reams of data for the price of… Read More »
Top 5: How You Know You’re Unorganized
Happy Monday, friends! We are all working hard at Brown & Meyers, preparing for the busy week ahead. It is a Monday ritual of mine to look through my upcoming calendar for the week and make sure that I am prepared for every meeting and job that we’re starting. This takes a lot of… Read More »
Indexing Documents – Don’t Be Afraid To Be Organized!
Document scanning requires a lot of well thought out plans, and methods of organization. You’ll have to make decisions about how you want to keep your digital records (i.e. your server, external hard drive, cd, etc.), do you want them OCR’d, if the hard copies are in color, do you want them scanned in… Read More »
