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	<title>DICT8 UK Based Medical Transcription</title>
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	<description>Medical Transcription in the UK</description>
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		<title>The 18-week-wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waiting for correspondence to travel between different parts of the healthcare system can add up to six and half weeks to the referral-to-treatment process and can be one of the reasons for missing the 18-week target.
DICT8 can significantly reduce the time taken to type up clinical letters, notes and reports from days or weeks to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/the-18-week-wait/</link>
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		<title>Why should you outsource your medical transcription?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Functional Benefits 
Reduce Turnaround times on letters

We can reduce turnaround times from days/weeks to hours (our average is 2 hours 34 minutes). This has a significant impact on clinical care.
Improvements in clinical care help to achieve targets- including the 18 week wait. Indeed medical transcription outsourcing is often one of the cheapest, quickest and most straight-forward things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/why-should-you-outsource-your-medical-transcription/</link>
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		<title>Benefits over voice recognition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In theory voice recognition is a great idea: it should enable quick and easy transcription of medical dictation. However we believe that there are a number of important benefits that may only be realised by outsourcing work to experienced medical transcriptionists:
 

Medical secretaries often act as safety nets for their clinicians. Doctors may make mistakes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/benefits-over-voice-recognition/</link>
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		<title>Benefits for Trusts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The utilisation of DICT8&#8217;s transcription outsourcing solution can bring significant benefits to NHS Trusts.
Hospital benefits

A significant reduction in the turnaround time of dictation tasks from several weeks to just a few hours: increasing administrative efficiency within departments and aiding the attainment of star ratings.
A significant reduction in the cost of dictation &#8211; approximately 50% &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/benefits-for-trusts/</link>
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		<title>Case study: Article from the The British Society for Human Genetics</title>
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Finding Options for the Typing of Clinic Letters
Each year when our Trust scrutinises our budget, apart from salaries it is the quantity of paper that we go through that causes the most comment.  “What do we do with it? where does it go?”, are amongst the questions.  I emphasise that this is what we do; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/case-study-article-from-the-the-british-society-for-human-genetics/</link>
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		<title>Why we only use UK Transcribers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the core of the DICT8 offering is the fact that we only use UK based experienced transcribers.
All of our transcribers have significant experience of working as full time medical secretaries in either NHS Trusts or PCTs. All work done by them is specialty matched: only neurology transcribers do neurology work etc.
On average our transcribers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/why-we-only-use-uk-transcribers/</link>
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		<title>Medical Transcription implementation process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Implementation of the DICT8 service is surprisingly easy. This is predominantly due to the fact that we use a web-based system so there is no requirement for code to be installed on your organisation&#8217;s IT system. As long as you have access to the web, you should be able to use the system.
One of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/medical-transcription-implementation-process/</link>
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		<title>Customer Testimonials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The University Dental Hospital of Manchester needed to improve the efficiency of its administrative functions in order to achieve the 18 Week Pathway target.
Having reviewed all functions, one area of concern identified was the time it took to produce clinical letters once dictated by consultants. The solution was Dict8!
Dict8 provides a very fast, efficient and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/customer-testimonials/</link>
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		<title>Dictation versus Template Systems in the Emergency Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the United States there has been a movement for Emergency Doctors to record the patient visit by using a charting system called the T System. This is one of many check off template systems that have gained huge popularity for the reasons of convenience and ease of use, resulting in replacement of dictation services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/dictation-versus-template-systems-in-the-emergency-room/</link>
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		<title>The problems associated with delayed typing- a doctor&#8217;s experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctors do not work in isolation. They rely and are relied upon by patients, as well as a whole network of other health professionals. The web that ties all of us together relies on efficient and exact communication streams of which there are many examples. None however is more tried and tested than the written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dict8.com/the-problems-associated-with-delayed-typing-a-doctors-experience/</link>
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