MT Exchange

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source They have put a great deal of money, time, and hard work into perfecting the use of speech rec in medical transcription, and it’s obviously paying off. Dictated: This is ______, PAC, supervised by Dr. _____, dictating a progress note on patient name _______.Speech rec [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source MTs have options. Besides transcribing as an IC or as an employee for a national company, a local MT company or a hospital, an MT can also transcribe her own accounts. But there are other options as well.Experienced MTs may send their reports directly to [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source Seasoned MTs know the secrets of the trade. They know the one secret work tactic that goes contrary to the way most people work on the job. It is the exact opposite of what employers expect in an employee. This secret method is at odds [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source Yes, there are secrets in the MT business, secrets only highly skilled MTs know and will never utter to another soul, except to a few chosen innocents who are taken under the wings of aged MTs and munificently ushered into the clandestine world of the [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source One of my favorite dictators has been dictating while watching the Olympics. I can hear it in the background. Apparently he’s quite a fan of the Olympics and has been very distracted this past week, giving me bouts of empty air time that he tries [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source You may ask, “What, exactly, does MT have to do with pole dancing?” It goes like this. Dr. Ditzy works in an ER near a strip club. As it turns out, pole dancing is a high-injury activity, and Dr. Ditzy occasionally has to treat the [...]

Confessions of an HIM Student Go to Source It seems so hard to believe that I only have two weeks of class left before we go on spring break and all head off tour our internships. That’s right, in three short weeks I will be in NY, working at an EHR company for a total [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source As health care advocates and political pundits commend, tank or simply expound upon privacy provisions in the stimulus package, this morning’s Google alerts remind us why HIPAA is oh-so-important in the first place. CVS Caremark Corp. has agreed to a record $2.25 million settlement following an investigation into its [...]

Passage Go to Source I know I whine a lot about MTs being the first and hardest-hit casualties in a budget crunch (and I wasn’t even around with you vets who were relegated to the supply room downstairs next to the morgue because MTs have always been so highly respected), but obviously, that’s my reality [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Breaking through red tape at seemingly record speed, the $787 billion economic stimulus package–officially dubbed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009–was signed into law yesterday. President Obama expressed confidence in the plan before issuing his signature. The final plan directs $19 billion toward HIT, including $17 billion [...]