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ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source For those of you unaccustomed to Twitterspeak, “FTW” stands for “For the win,” a throwback to those great sports moments when an athlete takes a game-winning shot. It’s a way to express your love or appreciation-a more efficient way to say “This rocks!”…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source Recently the Boston Globe has been reporting on problems arising when Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sent insurance claims data (i.e., billing codes) to Google Health PHR as a means of summarizing patients’ medical condition. As it turned out, this…(read more)

HIM Transitions Go to Source With the economy in a continuing spiral, there are unscrupulous people out there who are taking advantage of the desperation of those unemployed. I am solicited by advertisements to earn money online by working from home. They usually promise the potential…(read more)

Passage Go to Source When it comes to language, there are accepted formulae for how things work–not just the actual words used, but specifics as to punctuation, grammar, etc. They used to teach that in school, right? In the workplace, the rules are supposed to be more formal….(read more)

MT Connections Go to Source Today, April 22, 2009, is Earth Day – I know there are a zillion statistics out there on topics related to environmental issues, but here is one representative listing of the length of time certain items take to decompose in landfills: paper 2-5 months;…(read more)

There’s a cautionary tale inside the hype of medical transcription as a career and that is that there are a lot of scams. There are scam schools and there are scam jobs. Let’s focus on another shady area of transcription: the “certified medical transcriptionist.” I’m going out on a limb and expressing my opinion that [...]

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source When you see a document with a title such as Guidance Specifying the Technologies and Methodologies That Render Protected Health Information Unusable, Unreadable, or Indecipherable to Unauthorized Individuals for Purposes of the Breach Notification Requirements…(read more)

HIM Transitions Go to Source The kids were out for their spring break this past week. My husband was also scheduled for his vacation at the same time. This is the perfect time to take the kids on vacation. The only problem is that I am not on a vacation. Since I work under contract,…(read [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source If I had to be a pathogen, I’d choose to be Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pseudomonas aeruginosa hangs around the hot tub…my kind of bacteria. What a life they have, invited to every party, free-living, opportunistic, lounging around the tub, showing off their six-pack capsules and silky [...]

Passage Go to Source Ahhh , it must be springtime because the scams are bursting out all over. On one MT message board alone, I have counted no fewer than six threads this last week or so from starry-eyed MT wannabes hoping for advice on school choice, or thinly-veiled propaganda…(read more)