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ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source UnitedHealth Group has agreed to a settlement in the investigation of its insurance database by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. According to reports, the company allegedly ran a database through its Ingenix business unit that repeatedly underpaid patients who sought care from out-of-network doctors. Using the database [...]

Passage Go to Source I am feeling like a typical Lazy Libra these days. Even after my rush of enthusiasm for organization and starting a fresh year, I find I’m sputtering along and not quite sure how to recapture my motivation. I watch my friend–who not only works as an MT, but has a stitchery [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source EHRs have been on the HIM talk circuit for years, but until recently they haven’t had much buzz amid the ordinary folk. I admit I didn’t know much about EHR when I came on board at ADVANCE last summer, save for a mention by Sen. Hillary Clinton at a [...]

Confessions of an HIM Student Go to Source It’s finally the beginning of my last semester and I am getting really excited to graduate. This semester is a lot of independent work for us so I feel that it is really preparing us for the real world when you don’t have someone checking up on [...]

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source I woke up this morning to find a Google Alert in my inbox regarding a most interesting post on Julie Weight’s MT Exchange blog. The blog post quoted a MedQuist memorandum to its transcriptionists announcing the settlement of a lawsuit “…that was brought as a [...]

HIM Transitions Go to Source The recent announcement by a school district of a change in high school graduation requirements has set off controversy. Under the proposed plan, students will only have to have 24 courses instead of the current 28 to graduate. The rationale behind the change is to “give the students more options.” [...]

A couple of MTs have shared this with me. The class action suit brought by a group of medical transcriptionists against MedQuist. …lawsuit that was brought as a class action on behalf of current and former medical transcriptionist employees of MedQuist Inc. and MedQuist Transcription Ltd. (“MedQuist”). The suite alleges that MedQuist manipulated its company [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Ever since President Bush’s 2004 State of the Union address, when he called for the use of electronic medical records for most Americans by 2014, journalists in the HIT realm have used that line as the foray into many stories (look, I’m doing it right now!). We in the [...]

The Daily Grind: Wife, Mommy and MT Student Go to Source The holidays are over and we’re finally back to a normal routine around our home. The New Year has officially begun and it is already shaping up to be a great one! The town that I live in is about 15 minutes from the [...]

MT Connections Go to Source I suspect many homes have a section of the house devoted to “junk” or “things I may need in the future.” At the very least, most people have a junk drawer. Well, at our house we realized we have a junkyard basement! At one point early in our married life, [...]