Master scribe

Ask any doctor: They hate the extra time they spend to type notes for every patient visit.

As a result, medical-transcription services such as MedScribe Information Systems blossomed. The Naples-based company takes recorded dictations from doctors and parcels them out to an army of 190 people aided by voice-recognition software who create written records for busy physicians.

The company suffered a setback in 2012 when the government gave financial incentives to physicians to switch to electronic medical records. “In 2012 we lost about 25% of our revenue because of Obamacare,” says John Langley, the president and CEO of MedScribe. “They really pushed the data entry onto the doctors,” he says.