Medical/Clinical

To include Medical Reports, General GP Correspondence, Discharge Letters, Clinic annotations, Clinic Letters, GP Trainer tutorial sessions, GP Practice meeting minutes, Seminars, Conferences and Referral Letters.

With experience in the following:

ENT, Pathology, Cytology, Post Mortem reports, Haematology, Orthopaedics, Dermatology, Plastic Surgery, Counselling, Psychology, Ophthalmology, Physiotherapy, Rheumatology & General Practice.

I employ a strict awareness of patient confidentiality and adhere strictly to the Caldicott patient confidentiality principals to obtain optimum levels of patient security at all times. I personally favour anonymysing patient identifiable information but am aware that this is not always ideal. On agreement of works we will provide a confidentiality agreement.

Paragon - Code of Practice

To protect patient/client information we adhere to the following code of practice: 

Adhere to the principles of the Caldicott Report: justify the purpose for each use/transfer of patient-identifiable information. don't use patient-identifiable information.use the minimum necessary patient-identifiable information. access to patient-identifiable information should be on a strict need-to-know basis. everyone with access to patient-identifiable information should be aware of their responsibilities. understand and comply with the law.

Adhere to the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998. Personal data must be:

processed fairly and lawfully obtained and used for one or more specified purposes only adequate, relevant and not excessive accurate and kept up to date not kept for longer than necessary processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects protect against unauthorised access, damage or destruction there are restrictions on overseas transfer: obtain explicit consent.

When transfering digital audio files for transcription, to help ensure patient confidentiality I advise patient correspondence is received via the secure server. We use a service which is internet based and is a specifically designed service provider for the medical transcription industry using SSL encryption of all information contained therein upon uploading and return of files.

We are aware that most GP Surgeries operate EMIS as their chosen patient administration system. Word documents can be printed out or recorded onto disc to be pasted into your patient clinical records for future reference. If your information contains patient sensitive information then I will liaise with you to set up with a client log in and password for the secure server.

A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE SECURE SERVER.

The secure server is an internet based service specifically designed for the medical transcription industry, using SSL enryption of all information upon uploading and returning of files. Clients upload work via the secure server login and secure password into your "dictation-in file" where you upload your audio file. Your transcriber/secretary will pick up this work, complete, proof read and the document will be uploaded onto the server for your collection. You will receive an E-mail to notify you that there is a document pending in your transcription complete folder.