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 [...]
ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source 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)
The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source 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)
The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source 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)
MT Connections Go to Source 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)
ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source (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)
The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source 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)
The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source 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)
MTStars.com and offshore ownership – who really owns this flag-waving site?
A day in the life of a medical transcriptionist – the realistic scenario
Medical transcription offshore
A day in the life of a medical transcriptionist – the realistic scenario
Speaking of change – changes at MT Desk and MT Chat
Medical transcription and the miracle solution
The responsibility of a medical transcriptionist
Do as I say leadership
What is the medical transcription business?
Standards in medical transcription
Medical transcription offshore
MTStars.com and offshore ownership – who really owns this flag-waving site?
Medical transcription career potential
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