West Clay
Partners has announced the launch of
iDictate.com, a unique blend of Internet
technology and human intervention that
will dramatically change the way
business, legal and medical
professionals obtain transcribed
documents on a global scale.
According to company founder Lee Dorfman,
"The new service turns any telephone
into a dictation device with the
finished document either e-mailed back
to the user for editing or sent directly
to the recipient within an hour."
Customers in North America dial
877/DICTATE to dictate their jobs.
Dorfman cites cost, convenience, and
speed as the main benefits of the
service. English documents are billed at
only one-cent per word, with no minimum
usage, rush or monthly fees --
substantially less than maintaining a
secretarial staff or utilizing competing
dictation/ transcription services.
Foreign language dictation has not yet
been priced.
The convenience of the service makes
iDictate a perfect addition to the
growing list of business-to-business
"Apps-on-Tap." Users can dictate medical
transcripts, legal pleadings, meeting
summaries, letters, or any other
document on-the-fly from an office
phone, mobile phone, satellite phone,
hotel phone, in-flight phone or pay
phone.
Documents can also be transcribed by
faxing handwritten notes to 877-Dictate,
or by connecting hand-held recording
devices to iDictate's Internet server
via any telephone.
According to Dorfman, the company's
transcription turn-around time is
superior to conventional alternatives.
Most jobs are completed and returned to
the client within an hour, and the
service is available 24 hours a day.
Furthermore, says Dorfman, "In the event
the Labor Department's proposed rules on
workplace ergonomics are passed, an even
greater number of businesses of all
sizes will be forced to out-source their
transcription jobs." That proposal would
affect about 1.9 million work sites -- 1
of every three -- and more than 27
million workers that would be forced to
make on-site changes or find viable
alternatives.
The company is offering its services
through its own website "idictate.com,"
through legal and medical channels and
through wire-line and wireless
telecommunication companies throughout
the United States and overseas.
The company's typists and quality
assurance professionals come with solid
credentials, and each is bonded for up
to $5 million for any inappropriate use
of the information available to them.
Further, the company's security system
is patterned after the system used by
the U. S. government with subcontractors
who only view random,
unconnected pieces of an overall
project. This system of security is
virtually foolproof and is almost
certainly better than the system most
companies use today wherein current
typists have access to everything that
goes through the office.
According to Carol Ruth Silver, a
well-known San Francisco attorney, "iDictate
is the best thing since sliced bread."
Ms. Silver personally uses the service
to create legal agreements at all hours
of the day and night.
For more information, contact Lee
Dorfman at 1-800-397-9730 Ext. 13, or
lee@idictate.com.
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