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ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source It’s day 2 for ADVANCE at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Convention in Chicago, and the action keeps on coming. The morning kicked off with a general session. As attendees took their seats, video played on the jumbo…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source It’s the second day at the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) conference in Las Vegas, and the attendees are currently chowing down on breakfast. Yesterday’s welcome session was high energy and humorous. AAPC directors took on roles in a skit…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Today’s rainy, sleety, snowy mix wasn’t the welcoming weather organizers would have liked, but attendees at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference were bright-eyed and ready for action. The conference kicked off yesterday…(read more)

HIM Transitions Go to Source I am a huge fan of HGTV in which they make over a room and transform it into your wildest fantasy. For years, I have dreamed of one of the designers from HGTV showing up at my door to transform not only a room but the way I work. I [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source Some of my dictators are more exciting than others. Dr. Humdrum is a great money maker for me. Every report he dictates is exactly like the previous report and exactly like the next report. All of his patients have the same aches and pains and [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Well, devoted readers, conference season has officially begun. As Lynn already noted, we’re both jetting off to find out what’s the latest and greatest HIM has to offer. Tomorrow, I’m off to Chicago for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems…(read more)

MT Connections Go to Source I am going to wear my teacher hat today and offer my 2 cents on education in the health care realm. I saw a few segments on the news in the past week about the availability, or lack of, college loans in the current economic climate. One expert actually…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source The ADVANCE staff will be rather far flung early next week. Cheryl McEvoy is heading off to Chicago for the HIMSS conference, and I’m boarding a flight to Las Vegas early Sunday morning to take in the AAPC show. We’ll be bringing you all sorts of conference…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source National Medical Transcriptionist Week will be here next month, May 18-24. ADVANCE ‘s nursing publication is asking readers about their worst Nurses Week gifts ever. Did you ever get something truly atrocious for MT Week? There’s no special journalists…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source According to the MedQuist website , on March 31 the U.S. District Court of New Jersey entered final judgment approving the settlement of the medical transcriptionists’ class action and dismissing the case with prejudice. The website provides links to…(read more)