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ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source If you’ve been following Jay’s blog, ” XY Files in and MT World ,” recently, you know there have been some frightening reports of medical records being sold overseas. It’s enough to make you hunker down in the States and demand your records stay local….(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source From PRNewswire.com comes a press release from Webmedx, fourth-largest U.S. medical transcription service provider: Atlanta-based Webmedx , the fourth largest medical transcription company in the World, cites the news of black market sales of medical…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source § 164.312 Technical safeguards A CE must, in accordance with the general rule: (a) Standard: Access control. Implement technical policies and procedures for electronic information systems that maintain ePHI to allow access only to those persons or software…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source § 164.312 Technical safeguards A CE must, in accordance with the general rule: (a) Standard: Access control. Implement technical policies and procedures for electronic information systems that maintain ePHI to allow access only to those persons or software…(read more)

HIM Transitions Go to Source The introductory course I teach in health information technology (HIT) gives students the basics on health information. This week I did a lecture on the diversity of career options available in HIT. Students coming into the program are usually familiar…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source October is National Poppin’ Popcorn Month, so naturally a few of us at the office decided to celebrate with a culinary nod to those explosive kernels. I went the semi-homemade route, popping a bag and mixing it up with marshmallows, chocolate chips, raisins…(read more)

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Everyone’s sick of swine flu (pun not intended, I swear), so apologies in advance for striking up yet another conversation about it, but I couldn’t help posting when I heard about post-vaccine monitoring . What? What’s that you say? Monitoring? As in…(read more)

MT Connections Go to Source I am just getting back from the PA-AHDI Educational Conference in Lancaster, PA. What a great meeting! We had over 100 attendees from 12 states, a dozen exhibitors, and 4 generous sponsors. It was apparent that attendees, exhibitors, and speakers were…(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source From the Nation News in Barbados: The majority of Barbadian workers who underwent one year of Government-sponsored training in the medical transcription field, were put on the breadline because they were performing below the required standard of work….(read more)

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source From Reuters comes word of a new survey of health information technology professionals that paints a sobering portrait of the state of health information security here in the U.S.: According to the October 2009 Ponemon report, Electronic Health Information…(read more)