Today’s healthcare facilities are focused on securing their financial success and the health information management department represents a major cost center. The ARIAA COMPUTECH system allows hospitals and clinics to proactively address this area by providing a framework for profitability. ARIAA COMPUTECH impacts costs and productivity by greatly reducing your physician/nurse time spent on paperwork, thereby decreasing administrative costs and increasing time available for patient care.The medical transcription industry is highly competitive and fragmented, pitting literally thousands of small local and regional service providers against a few large national transcription services providers. As the demand for transcription services grows, along with increasingly demanding physicians, payers and consumers, it will continue to put pressure on the limited pool of highly skilled practitioners. This shortage of qualified transcriptionists puts continuing upward pressure on wages and benefits, causing a higher than normal turnover rate as institutions and services compete for these prized resources. Meeting compliance obligations with the approaching HIPAA regulations on privacy and security will only add to the challenge!