MT Exchange

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source The story at ACE today is all about…well, THE story. More specifically, how to show the value of narrative text so transcription can stay relevant in the switch to EHRs. But the “story” theme went beyond the record; in fact, it can represent several…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source The story at ACE today is all about…well, THE story. More specifically, how to show the value of narrative text so transcription can stay relevant in the switch to EHRs. But the “story” theme went beyond the record; in fact, it can represent several…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source I’m happy to report this morning went off without a hitch, but whoo-whee it’s been a whirlwind of a day! After a quick jolt of coffee, attendees filed into the Tennessee Ballroom for the opening keynote speech. Donna Hartley, a former Miss Hawaii turned…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source I usually have good luck when traveling. I’ve only temporarily lost baggage once (it was sent to another carousel), and my plane’s landed ahead of schedule more times than I can count. So when I decided to carry on my bags for the flight to Nashville,…(read more)

Passage Go to Source Years ago, when my grandma was getting on in years and her housekeeping wasn’t what it used to be, my mom drug me over there to spend the day really cleaning house for her. Actually, this may have been triggered by the infamous strawberries with baked…(read more)

MT Connections Go to Source Picture Lucille Ball at the airport and you can pretty much imagine how entertaining I am when I travel. No matter how compact I think I’ve gotten my carry-on things, I inevitably have more than I think and my boarding pass and photo ID seem to drop to…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source I’m off to Nashville tomorrow for the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity’s (AHDI) Annual Convention and Expo (ACE), and I couldn’t be more excited to toss off the headphones (those interviews don’t transcribe themselves!) for a few days…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source From telecoms.com today comes news of a statement from SpinVox regarding the ongoing brouhaha over questions surrounding its use (or not) of automated speech recognition technology to transcribe audio messages for its users: “Having experimented with…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source [Guest post by Kelly Graham, from the ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory blog, " ADVANCE Discourse: Lab "] Challenges for the use and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) are well documented, but this study in the journal Genetics…(read more)

HIM Transitions Go to Source For those of you who have been following my blog know that I returned to school to obtain a masters degree in education. My ultimate goal was to switch careers and teach on the college level. I started out almost two years ago with no teaching experience…(read more)