MT Exchange

This year is flying by us. Before we know it, it’s going to be 2010 – and that means significant changes in privacy and security measures for service providers to the healthcare industry. One of the more important changes for the medical transcription industry is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) [...]

In her Facebook group for medical transcriptionists, Kathy Nicholls asks the question: I am fascinated by how social media is changing our world today. People are on FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so many other places. Yet it does not seem to me that this has caught on very fast with MTs. I wonder why? I [...]

… there was the Usenet. And the Usenet is/was the Wild, Wild West of the internet. And the medical transcriptionists who wandered through the pre-GUI (that’s graphical user interface, to those of you who don’t remember what a C-prompt is!) internet got tired of not having their own space in the Usenet and therefore they [...]

It’s been a week since the relaunch of MT Chat and I have to say – it’s been interesting. One thing I’ve found as I’ve taken over ownership of the two sites is that very few people differentiate between MT Desk and MT Chat. When MTs talk about MT Desk, they are usually referring to [...]

In his blog at Advance, Jay Vance spotlights a story about Potential Offshore Outsourcing Catastrophe – Medical Records For Sale In India. It’s a pretty interesting read  and although the sting operation was carried out by a UK team and involved UK records, it doesn’t take much to see that the same situation could be [...]

I always said I’d never run a discussion forum. And, as many of you who know me are aware – here I am, running MT Desk’s discussion forums at MT Chat. Both sites have been plagued with malware and viruses in the last several weeks. To my extreme dismay, MT Desk had an attack site [...]

There are some sites where you can immediately dismiss the entire thing as complete BS because it’s obviously put up by an internet marketer. That doesn’t mean I approve of the internet marketers and their crappy sites and crappy articles pushing crappy schools – but at least I get where they’re coming from and they’re [...]

Not that any of us has a crystal ball or anything… At his XY Files in an MT World blog at Advance, Jay Vance asks: Are Medical Transcription’s Days Numbered? This fairly brief blog entry includes a long quote from Nae Priest, originally at MT Chat. I’m not going to requote it or Jay’s blog [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about the American Transcription Association (ATA) since the Advance editorial, Inshoring jobs for MTs – and then again when For the Record published their article, Transcription group opposes offshoring. Life kind of intervened – and it was summer and hot and I really didn’t feel like saying much about anything. [...]

Here we go roundabout with the credentialing discussion – again. I realized during the discussion on the Plexus social networking article that the article is approved for continuing education credits (CECs) for those who are credentialed CMTs. In my opinion, this takes the discussion to a completely new level. First, indulge me while I talk [...]