TrueShare is pleased to announce its affiliation with The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, or AHDI.  The association is dedicated to the development of healthcare documentation standards, regulations, education, and technologies.  With its paperless and time efficient service, TrueShare is proud to unite with AHDI to provide medical transcription professionals with the perfect solution to environmentally friendly healthcare documentation.

Using the TrueShare Online File System with features such as Auto Tran, a medical professional can easily transfer their audio files to a transcriber, who will then transcribe the files and send them back, all with a simple and quick online method.  Not only does TrueShare provide a HIPAA compliant and paperless answer to electronic health records, but also global connectivity, because files are stored online and can be accessed from anywhere.

Ray Hill, Director of Business Development for TrueShare.com said, “The affiliation between TrueShare and the AHDI organization creates an extraordinary opportunity in the Medical Transcription industry for both the individual transcriber, and transcription companies.”  For those transcribers, the opportunity comes in the form of a seamless transition to an electronic and online system, which is looming in the near future of all medical transcription services.  AHDI also commented in regards to upgrading electronically that, “TrueShare fits naturally and easily into most transcription businesses without requiring change.”

As part of its affiliation with The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, TrueShare is providing AHDI members with a 10% discount off of the monthly subscription rate.  Transcribers can also try TrueShare for free with a 7-day Free Trial.  To see how TrueShare can benefit the medical transcription community, and how simple taking healthcare documentation fully electronic can be, take a look at the TrueShare blog post “How To: Use TrueShare to automate Medical Transcription processes.“  For more information about AHDI and their affiliation with TrueShare, or to try out the TrueShare Online File System, head to www.TrueShare.com or www.ahdionline.org.

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About the TrueShare Affiliate Program

TrueShare’s affiliate program extends its services to businesses and associations that are looking for the one stop shop for their customers’ file sharing and storing needs, while earning revenue and perks for their efforts.  To learn more about the affiliate program or how to get involved, contact Ray Hill at rhill@trueshare.com, or navigate to www.TrueShare.com

You might be used to seeing doctors and nurses walking around with patient charts, or the floor to ceiling file shelves behind the receptionist desk at your family practice. These documents of course hold histories and notes on patients, and are critical for correct medical care. And since it is so important for patient data to be secure and up-to-date, most medical organizations use transcription services to decipher doctor’s audio notes and insert them into patient files.

The great thing about constantly evolving technologies like online file systems, is that established processes such as transcription can be easily enhanced. Today I’m going to look at how TrueShare‘s Auto Tran feature can be used for quicker and more efficient medical transcription.

With a TrueShare business plan, a transcription services company can assign individual accounts for every employee within each of their client’s offices. They can then group the accounts with the user or work group functionality, according to which office they belong to. This keeps the file system organized and easy to access.

Auto Tran in a Medical Transcription Setting

An example of Auto Tran being used in a medical transcription setting would proceed as follows: A member of the staff at a doctor’s office has 35 audio recordings from that day’s patient visits. She places these recordings in a folder that has been set up with the TrueShare Auto Tran application to be monitored for changes every hour. When the application finds the new files in the folder, it automatically uploads them to TrueShare.com, and can also copy them to an archive folder on the local computer for safe keeping.

The administrator at the transcription company then logs into TrueShare and sees all of the files that have been uploaded since the last time he logged in. He uses the “move” option to transfer the new files into both the transcription employee’s folder as well as an online backup folder in the main account. An email notification is then sent to the employee telling them that files are available in their folder.

The employee can either have Auto Tran set up to automatically bring the files to his personal computer, or he can log in and download the files to wherever he may be using a computer. Upon completion of the transcription by the employee, the process repeats itself in reverse until ultimately the doctor’s office receives its transcribed documents securely and promptly.

As you can see, using Auto Tran instead of a paper or offline electronic system is much more efficient. It saves time and resources, while also providing global connectivity (since files are stored online and can be accessed from anywhere.) I should also mention that TrueShare‘s security and encryption measures make it HIPAA compliant straight out of the box. So if you’d like more information about Auto Tran, and how it can used for medical or other transcription services, check out our features page.

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