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HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 2: Protecting PHI – Administrative Safeguards

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source For this second installment in a series of articles on the added responsibilities for transcription service providers under HITECH, I’ll be drawing heavily from information from the HIPAA Survival Guide , specifically the section regarding the HIPAA Security…(read more)

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The Vanishing Textbook

HIM Transitions Go to Source I remember being in elementary school and how everyone was extremely excited about going to the library to check out books. My friends and I looked forward to this day all week; we could not wait to check out our favorite books. We would check out the…(read more)

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Sleepless Over Speech Rec

MT Connections Go to Source Let me warn you – I did not get much sleep last night! Or for a few nights. Or maybe it has been a few weeks. Hard to tell in my sleep-deprived brain. I do know that I am edgy and a bit stressed. Sometimes that is a good thing [...]

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Medical transcription trends

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 [...]

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HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 1: New Responsibilities For Business Associates

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source In this first installment in a series of articles about how the HITECH portion of the ARRA legislation (also known as the stimulus bill) will change the way medical transcriptionists operate, I want to focus on some of the new obligations for business…(read more)

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Virtual Vision Board

MT Connections Go to Source I am using a virtual vision board and I am lovin’ it! Half the fun was thinking I was the first one to take the vision board concept to the virtual level – but a quick Google search showed I was definitely not the first one. That’s OK – I [...]

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Social Media Blitz

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Today’s the day! All that ” social media coverage ” I’ve been hinting at is now available for your browsing pleasure. (Even some of our regulars like Management Q&A , Registry Perspectives and Student Center got in on the action!) The launch comes…(read more)

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The future of medical transcription

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 [...]

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Are Medical Transcription’s Days Numbered?

The XY Files in an MT World Go to Source From a post on MTChat.com : I think MTs are going to start losing actual real jobs a whole heap sooner in greater numbers than most of us are willing to admit is already happening. It is happening here in our area now and we [...]

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ICD-10 Anxiety

HIM Transitions Go to Source I try to attend coding updates annually, and I always learn something new. I attended a workshop this week on the 2010 ICD-9 changes. The amount of information is just mind-boggling. It is a good thing I don’t have to perform coding for a living. The…(read more)

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