How We Handle Your Dictation
What happens to a medical-legal audio file from the moment you upload it to the moment the report is delivered — and what we will sign before you send the first one.
How is medical-legal dictation kept confidential?
Dictation is transferred over an encrypted connection, stored encrypted, and opened only by the transcriptionist and reviewer assigned to that file, with an access record kept per file. Signed NDAs are available before the first file changes hands, and a BAA is available on request.
Transfer
Files sent through the upload on this site travel over an encrypted HTTPS connection. Large dictations are sent in pieces and reassembled on arrival, so an interrupted upload can resume rather than being re-sent in the clear. If your office already uses its own secure portal or SFTP channel, we work inside that instead — we do not require you to change how you send audio.
Storage and access
Audio and finished reports are stored encrypted. Access is limited to the transcriptionist assigned to the file and the reviewer who performs the QA pass, and each file carries a record of who opened it and when. Files are not shared with anyone outside the assigned team, and they are not used to train any speech model.
- Encrypted storage for audio and delivered reports
- Access limited to the assigned transcriptionist and reviewer
- Per-file access record
- Deletion on your schedule — tell us the retention window you need
Agreements we will sign
We sign NDAs before receiving work, including a sample file, and a Business Associate Agreement is available on request for practices that need one in place. If your organization has its own confidentiality or vendor agreement, send it with your first enquiry and we will review it rather than insisting on ours.
- Signed NDA before the first file
- BAA available on request
- Your own vendor or confidentiality agreement reviewed on request
Protected health information in forms
The quote and contact forms on this site are for scheduling and pricing questions only. Please do not paste patient identifiers, claim details or clinical content into them — send dictation and documents through the encrypted upload or your own secure channel instead. If a form submission contains clinical detail, we handle it under the same confidentiality terms as a file, but the upload path is the one built for it.
Accuracy safeguards that protect the record
Confidentiality is one half of trust in a medical-legal file; the other half is not inventing content. Where audio is unclear in causation, apportionment, impairment or validity language, the passage is flagged for the evaluator to review rather than filled with a best guess. Numbers — percentages, measurements, dates, dosages — are re-checked in QA, and internally inconsistent figures inside the same dictation are raised with you rather than reconciled by us.
See the full workflow for where each of those checks sits.
What we do not claim
We describe our own practices only. We do not hold ourselves out as certified or accredited by any standards body, and we do not publish third-party audit results. "HIPAA compliant" on this site means the handling described above, plus a BAA where one is in place — not a certification, which HIPAA does not issue. If your compliance team needs specific written answers before onboarding a vendor, send the questionnaire and we will answer it directly.
Security questions
What compliance and practice managers ask before onboarding us.
Will you sign a BAA?
Yes. A Business Associate Agreement is available on request, and a signed NDA can be in place before you send a sample file.
Are files encrypted?
Yes. Dictation is transferred over an encrypted connection and stored encrypted, with access limited to the assigned transcriptionist and reviewer.
Who can open my files?
Only the transcriptionist assigned to the file and the reviewer who performs the QA pass. Each file carries a record of who opened it and when.
How long are files kept?
Tell us the retention window your office requires and we delete on that schedule.
Can I send patient details through the quote form?
Please don't. Use the encrypted upload or your own secure channel for anything clinical; the forms are for scheduling and pricing questions.
Is my dictation used to train AI models?
No. Files are used to produce your report and nothing else.