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Confessions of an HIM Student Go to Source With class finished up one would think it would be smooth sailing all around. Unfortunately that’s now how life works. I am leaving tomorrow for NY for my internship and I have yet to pack one item as of now. Albeit my fault, it still is an [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.~Jerome K. Jerome That’s how I felt yesterday when I attempted a power hour. I got psyched up for it, ready to beat my best time, but it was all downhill [...]

Passage Go to Source I love the internet, but it does bring out the worst in some people. . . Whilst it is wildly liberating to people with limited ability to make connections in real life, the polar opposite is that it enables some real narcissists to run amok, as well….(read more)

MT Connections Go to Source In our line of work in health care documentation, words are our life. We spend hours on end transcribing spoken words or computer-generated words into a legal document for inclusion in a patient’s health care record. In the process we research unfamiliar…(read more)

I casually commented on my Facebook page the other day about one of my irrational work-at-home fears; i.e., that I will choke to death and there won’t be anyone here to notice. Don’t ask me where this fear comes from; I suspect it started with an episode of Six Feet Under that featured a woman [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source When you look at the signs, it should’ve been obvious. Wal-Mart started health care clinics in 2006, using eClinicalWorks software as EHRs for its 30 clinics. Last fall, Wal-Mart teamed up with personal health record (PHR) provider Dossia to offer some employees PHRs. Now, Wal-Mart, through its Sam’s Club [...]

I find myself dismayed – and, frankly, somewhat depressed – reading some of the comments from MTs in the discussion that my MTs and “Speech Wreck” blog post generated over at the MT Chat Hot Zone. It seems that just about every discussion revolves back to how medical transcriptionists are paid – and how they [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source It’s not often that you can call vegging out in front of the TV “research,” but tomorrow is one of those lucky times. Tuesday’s episode of “Oprah” is all about medical mistakes and measures you can take to prevent them. The show features actor/director Dennis Quaid, who became the [...]

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source In response to my fellow HIM Insider blogger Jeanne Johnston’s post entitled “Speech Wreck,” I’d like to offer my own perspective on the use of speech recognition technology (SRT) in medical transcription. I have a fair amount of experience with back-end SRT, both as a [...]

HIM Transitions Go to Source The online teaching environment is constantly changing to keep pace with the latest in technological advances. Just when I think I mastered the latest and coolest in high tech something new comes along. About 3 weeks ago, I was introduced to voice thread. For those of you unfamiliar with voice [...]