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FTC Probes CVS

Blogfeed — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:23:11 +0000

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Your friendly neighborhood drug store–OK, more like the corporate colossus that runs it–is under investigation again. CVS Caremark Corp. announced yesterday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the company’s business practices, according…(read more)

Update: More Details On MTIA/Verizon Health Information Exchange Project

Blogfeed — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:16 +0000

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From a press release from MD-IT , one of the charter members of the Medical Transcription Service Consortium, with some interesting tidbits highlighted: The Medical Transcription Service Consortium (MTSC) – formed by ICSA Labs, an independent division…(read more)

Transcription Providers, Verizon To Create Health Information Exchange Infrastructure For Transcribed Medical Records

Blogfeed — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:15 +0000

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In a move reported by Reuters and other sources, a newly formed industry group called the Medical Transcription Service Consortium has announced plans to create “a new IT platform for the secure exchange of digitized transcriptions of physician-dictated…(read more)

Reality MT

Blogfeed — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:11 +0000

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It’s a good thing my computer doesn’t have a webcam or I may frighten my employer away! Picture this, old comfort clothes, ice pack wrapped around my head, Bose headphones over the ice pack, another ice pack on the back of my neck (imagine the bad hair…(read more)

Movies and Medical Records

Blogfeed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:54 +0000

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(Editor’s note: The following blog was written by Mark McGraw, an associate editor on staff at ADVANCE .) It’s movie night, and you’re not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you’ll go for the one with the “Winner: Best Foreign Language…(read more)

Medical Transcription Executives Discuss The State Of The Industry

Blogfeed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:43 +0000

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Interesting read from For The Record magazine featuring Jay Cannon, president and chief information officer of Webmedx; Ethan Cohen, president of SPi’s healthcare division; and Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy at…(read more)

Indian Business Consultant Says U.S. Largely Responsible For Demand For Black Market Medical Records

Blogfeed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:10:15 +0000

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From Na Vijayashankar (“Naavi”) at www.naavi.org comes a strong response to the Indian black market medical records scandal in general and the resulting comments by Webmedx CEO Sean Carroll in particular (emphases mine): “To put the incident in the proper…(read more)

No Rest for the Weary

Blogfeed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:10:11 +0000

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I have been trying to get the flu shot for the last few weeks. As you know from watching the news, the flu shot is in short supply. After my third attempt, the nurse practitioner promised to call me as soon as a new shipment arrived. I thought with all…(read more)

Truth or Fiction?

Blogfeed — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:02:00 +0000

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All of the Halloween costumes and decorations this week, especially the graveyards and skeletons, provoked a memory from ACE a few months ago. One of the presenters, Mike Tabor, DDS, showed photos and mentioned some fascinating information about The Body…(read more)

PHRs Go Overseas

Blogfeed — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:59:07 +0000

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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)