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MT Connections Go to Source Saturday was March 21, 2009. What is special about that day? It is National Common Courtesy Day! As a society, doesn’t it seem courtesy and manners sometimes take a back seat? The world is seemingly full of loud voices on cell phones in all sorts of public…(read more)

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source Yesterday was a typical spring day around here, a steady downpour of drenching rain… perfect weather for a power hour day. Without the distracting birds and bees and fluffy white spring clouds adrift in a brilliant blue sky that I was dealing with last Friday, [...]

Last week, I attended the Healthcare Documentation Specialist Curriculum Development Seminar, sponsored by Mira Costa College, in San Diego. This was attended by educators from local community colleges with transcription and HIM programs, employers, some MTSOs and some transcriptionists. Kim Buchanan, AHDI-F and Director of Credentialing and Education with AHDI, and Peter Preziosi, CEO AHDI/MTIA, [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, is the Obama administration’s pick as the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. According to a Department of Health and Human Service press release , Dr. Blumenthal has his work cut out for him. “Dr. Blumenthal…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Everyone has an opinion about what will make nationwide EHR adoption. But the one thing most agree upon is the need for standards. A number of organizations and government entities have already vowed to develop a common language or designated format for…(read more)

Passage Go to Source Just when I’ve started to despair that we are going to give spring a miss and head straight into the Florida summer, I found a bright spot in my week to counteract these winter blahs. . . Actually, the story starts out on a grumpy note because it all…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Unhappy about having to learn speech recognition? Well, look at all the good it’s doing! Thanks to fellow ADVANCE blogger Jay Vance for digging up this gem: a company that uses speech recognition backwards–going from text to speech–to help people catch…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source We are in the midst of a social networking explosion. Headhunters recruit through LinkedIn, Congressmen send tweets from the debate floor and thousands log on to Facebook every day. The possibilities are endless, and as an industry that’s bent on the…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source The above is the title of a very insightful and thought-provoking blog post by Dr. Nick van Terheyden, Chief Medical Officer for M*Modal. He begins his article by quoting another blog post by Julian Alssid and Jonathan Leviss, who contend that investing…(read more)

HIM Transitions Go to Source It has been probably a week since we all had to adjust our clocks for daylight savings time. We were all supposed to remember this by springing forward. I finally have all the clocks in my house changed over and my wristwatch. With this change comes all…(read more)