Archive for May, 2009

First AAPC Chapter Meeting

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I attended my first AAPC local chapter meeting last week. The meeting was an informal session on the daily duties of a coder. Coders shared their stories on a typical day at the office. Some people had a dual role of office manager/coder and others functioned…(read more)
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A Call for Plug-and-Play EHRs

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Nothing like great timing. In my last blog post, I suggested that electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) technology needs to become more like an iPhone in order to achieve widespread acceptance from technology-shy physicians and…(read more)
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What a Difference a Year Makes

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Around this time last year, I was schlepping clothes, photos and a hodgepodge of kitchenware from my college house to my mom’s place, an hour away. I was in that weird place between incredible relief that classes were over and immense grief as I said…(read more)
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Happy National Medical Transcriptionist Week!

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May 18th to May 24th marks the 24th annual National Medical Transcriptionist Week, first established by proclamation in 1985 from then President Ronald Reagan to bring public and industry-wide attention to the role and contribution of medical transcriptionists…(read more)
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Lessons from an iPhone

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I admit it, I was suffering from iPhone envy. As an unabashed technophile (i.e., hard-core geek), I couldn’t help but be intrigued by all the cool things the iPhone was supposedly capable of doing. When one of your colleagues says something to the effect…(read more)
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