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• Digital Versus Analogue Tape Transcription - The Pros And Cons Considered // November 20 2009

  For years, analogue audio tapes were the only option available to clients for recording dictation, interviews or conferences and focus groups. Standard audio tapes were the medium of choice for interview or group recordings while mini tapes and micro cassettes for use in Dictaphones were the industry standard for any dictation. Latterly, digital recorders have very quickly overtaken the old tape formats and there are so many advantages to switching to a digital recorder that it can’t be dismissed as just the latest fad.

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• Tips to transcribe difficult terms // November 10 2009

  Materials that are full of technical, financial or specialized terminology may be unfamiliar to the transcriptionists. It may be necessary to listen to words, terms, sentences or even a whole section several times in order to transcribe them properly.

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• Insurance Plans Medical Billing Software-MediSoft Software // September 19 2009

  Most of the important aspects of medical billing software include health insurance plans and options for medical insurance. Some of the jargon that medical billing software is familiar with is deductibles, allowable, co-payment and coinsurance. The coinsurance will tell you how much the patient must pay but it is only a percentage of the allowed amount that must be paid. Then there is the co-payment that is very popular and this is the amount you pay every time you go to see the doctor. The doctor receives and keeps the co-pay amount and the insurance would pay the doctor the balance of the payment. These are just a few examples of what a medical billing expert has to understand.

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• How to Calm Cranky Customers Without Blowing Your Stack // June 17 2009

  

  There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hear another small business owners complaining about some of the customers they have to do business with. Some of them REALLY are legitimate complaints, but after listening to 100’s of different complaints, I have found the root of most of them is a lack of understanding.

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