Archive | February, 2009

A Few of Your Favorite Things

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source As Lisa Algeo, editor of ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals, noted in her editorial in our February issue, we’re beefing up our Web site, and that means you can now find a few of your favorite things online. AHDI Track is now on the Web, and you can track [...]

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Patient Consent Gets New Meaning

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source It’s Friday. The weekend is almost here. Friends are coming in from out of town. So of course, I’m gathering all the weird news I can to make for some interesting dinner conversation. And the great debate over patient privacy has turned up two gems: First up, we have [...]

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Globalization or Protectionism?

Passage Go to Source I see this week there is some outrage offshore over the new stimulus bill, specifically the part relating to the H-1B visas that have allowed foreign workers to come to the US, illustrated nicely in this article on India Times–and especially in the ensuing comments. Of course, many of these visas [...]

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Finishing Up the Semester

Confessions of an HIM Student Go to Source Next Wednesday, we have our finance final and our finance project due and then we are officially done with our classroom curriculum. Cristin and I will also be finishing up our project next week, being that our last presentation is on Tuesday. Every presentation and meeting has [...]

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HITECH Alters HIPAA

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source By now, most of us have heard a few of the details in the economic stimulus package signed by the president Feb. 17. You’ll have $13 extra stuffed in your paychecks each week starting April Fool’s Day, and money will go toward green initiatives. Did you know that the [...]

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HITECH Alters HIPAA

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source By now, most of us have heard a few of the details in the economic stimulus package signed by the president Feb. 17. You’ll have $13 extra stuffed in your paychecks each week starting April Fool’s Day, and money will go toward green initiatives. Did you know that the [...]

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Abortion Records Go on Long, Strange Trip

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source When patient records of women receiving abortions made their way from the Sedgwick County, KS, court to the Johnson County, KS, district attorney’s office and then probably on to somewhere in Virginia and then back to Johnson County, KS, that’s an issue worth considering, according to a lawyer for [...]

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Obama Delivers Medicaid Relief

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source I suppose it’s a sign of the times when I admit that my guitar-playing friends and I made up a song about the financial bailout during a jam session 2 weeks ago. The fact that said jam session was at home and wine was in supply may explain why [...]

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Re-Dictation: Harnessing the Power of Front-End Speech Recognition Technology

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source As all long-time transcriptionists know, years of high-level production transcription inevitably take a toll on the fingers and wrists. What many MTs may not know, however, is that modern consumer speech recognition technology (SRT) offers a possible alternative to all that keyboarding. I call this [...]

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Lessons from Coraline

HIM Transitions Go to Source My daughter has been dying to see the new movie Coraline. Yes, this is not a typo, it is Coraline not Caroline. She read the book and just loved it and couldn’t wait until the book was made into a movie. The story revolves around the main character Coraline who [...]

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