The old email address (uce@ftc.gov) will be phased out. The FTCâs spam database has served as the basis for FTC cases involving pyramid schemes, money-making chain letters, credit card scams, credit repair scams, bogus weight-loss plans, fraudulent business opportunities, and other scams that were promoted via email.
Itâs no small task to run a transcription department when there are a lack of qualified transcriptionists, economic downturns, and an emphasis on improved documentation. At the University of Washington Medical Center, a 450-bed facility in Seattle, we manage 120 hours of incoming dictation per day. With more than 350,000 clinic visits per year and 1,500 inpatient discharges per month, dictation volumes have steadily increased by an average of 15 percent each year since 1996. In this article, weâll discuss our strategies for keeping quality high and costs under control.
Recording 1992 heralded the introduction of Dictaphone's first digital logger. The recorder used compact and cost effective 90 metre DAT (digital audio tape) with a compression rate of 16 Kbps, to effectively store up to 270 channel hours of recordings on a single cartridge.