Need help with choosing new digital recorder

My account is looking to buy new digital voice recorders.  What they are currently using is discontinued.

They would prefer to buy one at a local office store where they can actually see it and try it.  Price isn't too big of an issue, but ease of use definitely is and clarity a must for me.  I will encourage them to buy online if needed, though.

If anyone has any recommendations, I would really appreciate it.

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Is anyone using the Olympus DS-30 for physician transcription.  I am looking to purchase one for a doctor and would like some feedback.  Thanks!

I am in the process of setting up a large group of drs with digital recorders.  They don't want to spend too much money on the units.  I was looking into Sony or Olympus.  I actually have a Sony (only cost 60.00), but it will only let you email the files.  I need to find one that can upload to an FTP site because there are 15 drs, I know it will be too much for an email acct to handle.  I have been researching and asking at stores and web sites, but people are totally clueless about their products.

Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it

Her doc wants her to transcribe and he records on an Olympus digital voice recorder.  When I look up the specific model she said he has, it's this http://www.aaaprice.com/olympusds330.html.  My questions are this?  What does she need to be able to do this work?  She has a .wav pedal.  I don't do this type of stuff working with these particular types of voice files from a single recorder so I'm just trying to help here.  Right now he's given her JUST his little recorder to transcribe from until his software comes in (had to reorder it).  He thinks she should be able to load the software onto HER computer and be good to go.  Is that so?  So right now she either awaits the software or has to sit and transcribe from his recorder w/o any headphones or foot pedals (which will be painstaking, LOL).  Am I right?  Any thoughts are appreciated. 

Thinking about purchasing a digital recorders to give my doctors the option of using.  Which has the best quality of sound and easiest to use?  Also, need an FTP site information.

Thanks

I have a friend from church who is a physical therapist and she still uses the tape recorders for dictation (about 10-15 therapists).  I would like to try to obtain their transcription account and offer them a better way to dictate.  I currently have 1 account of my own who uses an Olympus digital recorder and I also work for a company that uses a call-in system.  Does anyone know anything about a call-in system, such as obtaining it for a business? Or do you think it would be cheaper in the long run to offer the digital recorders to each of the dictating therapists in return for their dictation?  Any suggestions would be helpful. 

that works well for transcription?  I've been trying to research them and find Olympus has some, but pricey.  The Sony's are less expensive, but they have proprietary software where you have to convert all your files to a format you can use, and I'm not sue I'd know how to do that.  I just need a decent digital recorder for one doc to use and I'd like a memory card/stick so I can just stop in and swap out the cards to get the dictation.  Does anyone know of one that doesn't cost hundreds?  Or have a better suggestion for how to do just one doctor's dictation digitally?   I don't need one with all the mailboxes/authors, etc., since it's only one doctor.  Thank you!

When someone makes a point about family medical history going onto a child's records and possibly preventing that child from obtaining health or life insurance in the future, you start talking about identity theft, which is NOT the topic that person is talking about.

When someone talks about identity theft, THEN you start talking about how giving medical information about deceased family members could not possibly contribute to identity theft.

Stay on topic. Quit dancing around the point. Stop making vague statements about people being "paranoid" and "scared". Many posters in this thread have gone out of their way to explain exactly WHY they feel the way they do and do the things they do, yet you completely ignore that and say they lack common sense. You have absolutely NO rational basis for your arguments. They are all based on your OPINION that people are too paranoid.

When you can come up with some solid REASONS why people shouldn't be cautious with their personal information, maybe someone will be willing to listen to you. But that hasn't happened yet, and I'm not holding my breath.

BUT she wants me logged into the system by 9:30 a.m.  So I'm confused too.  I've decided that I may come back to her and just say I'm not going to do the tapes anymore.  I hate the tapes anyway.  The voice quality is horrible, it fades in and out.  It takes me twice as long to transcribe their tapes than the digital.

You will need a software program to do that. I am not sure but I thought that the very high-end Olympus recorders could be set up to do that but you'll have to check on that. Check the Olympus site link below.

Bytescribe has a package that uploads/downloads but it my be beyond your $$. Also check with some of the other vendors who advertise here like GearPlayer. Search this site for some other ideas as well.

Would any of you have an old dictation recorder (digital) or know where I could pick one up at a discount?  It is needed for someone to record a book - load onto a PC and then have transcribed.  It must work with Express Scribe player.  Thanks!

I have a new account and the office manager called me because the doc is off who usually uploads their DSS files to my site.  I'm not familiar with this process and am wondering if anyone can help.  The office manager got directions from the doctor before he left, but I believe she is missing one step.  These are the directions she has.

Plug in the recorder with the USB attachment, make sure the recorder is on, go to the Olympus program, highlight and drag over the DSS file to my site.  Well, the problem is that she can find the voice file.  It seems like the file is not uploading from the recorder to their computer.

Is this something that is done automatically or do you have to manually upload the voice file, name it, and save it to their computer?  It doesn't seem right to me that you would just plug the recorder in and it automatically uploads, names the file, and saves it.  Maybe I'm wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks! 

voice files from their recorder to an FTP site or whatever to be transcribed?  Does the doctor merely have to set his recorder on a docking station and the files are automatically transferred?  I've only had doctors calling in by phone in the past, never using hand-helds.

I've seen hand-helds for $100 and also for $500.  Just wanting a recommendation for a good recorder that is very easy for the doctor to use.  If it's not easier than calling in, he won't go for it.

When I open a file from within startstop, it wants to open windows sound recorder, and then it wants to open a file located somewhere else on my hard drive.

Sometimes it will open the file I want to listen to, and the windows sound recorder flashes on the screen a couple of times.

Is anyone having that problem? I've emailed and called startstop but no response to email and no return call from startstop tech support.

 Any info you have is greatly appreciated. I'm on version 9.8.7

have all of my accounts set up this way.  It makes it much easier and all the doc has to do is plug in the recorder.  I use DocShuttle with Olympus DS-2300 recorders.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I read your post and was wondering if I could get in this thread?  I don't have my own accts yet, I work for a small national and a large national.  However, I am seriously thinking about getting my own accts.  Before I go looking, I thought it would be good idea to have a digital system in mind and ready to set up. 

One idea that I have seen that I found really interesting was in the Transcription Gear Catalog.  There is a 2 page spread about their idigital system.  This is a toll free dictation ASP, very similar to what the nationals have, I would think.  With this system, you pay for the minutes that you will use during the month.  Has anyone else used this type of system?  Any thoughts about it?