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ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source I’ve heard complaints about doctors who don’t take their own advice. You know, the ones who pause in the middle of explaining the benefits of exercise to hack up a lung or hike their pants up over their guts? Well, HIM professionals are just as immersed in health care, [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday that an automatic stay will be imposed on the contract work of the four Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) program. The stay is required as a result of protests filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by two unsuccessful bidders, [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Whether you’ve been getting your political information from a news network, “Saturday Night Live” skits or right here on the ADVANCE Web site, we hope you exercise your right to vote today. And if the deluge of media coverage about the presidential election wasn’t enough to send you to [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Earlier this month, attendees at the 2008 American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit got a glimpse of what may be to come in the future of health care—namely, personalized genomic medicine, or customized care based on that those three letters you learned in 7th grade: DNA. If [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Well, it’s over, and what a conference it’s been. The 2008 AHIMA Convention wrapped up today with a stirring presentation by Chris Gardner, the author of “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Audience members laughed at certain points and welled with emotion at others as Gardner wound through his amazing and [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source As someone who recently went through the hassle of filling out paper forms at a new physician’s office only to be reprimanded for failing to send my medical records ahead of the appointment, I can understand why health information exchange (HIE) is a hot topic. And despite murmurs of doomed regional health information organizations (RHIO), this [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Yesterday’s general sessions were all about looking to the future of health care, and, as Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACML, clinical services, HCA, said at his presentation, HIM professionals are optimistic, not just hopeful, about what lies ahead. Dr. Perlman showed shocking statistics about the state of [...]

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source For the last year and a half, my wife Carol and I have been raising our now-23-month-old grandson Quenton, for reasons I won’t go into right now. Suffice it to say that you do what you have to do; I’m sure many of you can [...]

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source In this era of general financial uncertainty and increasing pressure to produce more in less time in the medical transcription field, we MTs should always be on the lookout for ways to raise productivity in order to increase compensation. There is any number of useful [...]

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source Paradigm: noun: the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time. (OneLook.com) For as long as I’ve been working in the medical transcription field, the “generally accepted perspective” of the experienced MTs I’ve known has been that we do what we do [...]