MT Exchange

I was moseying along in the medical transcription blogosphere today – in my opinion, part of my duties as webmaster/owner of medical transcription sites – when I decided to check out a tweet sent out by Kathy Nicholls about some changes being proposed in AHDI governance. Here’s Kathy’s tweet: KathyNicholls: AHDI proposes governance changes. What [...]

I have to admit when I saw the title of the latest blog at the AHDI Lounge blog, I was intrigued – so they get points for an interesting title. Is the medical transcription profession doomed? Just reading the title, I thought maybe AHDI was finally going to take off the rosie-colored glasses they wear [...]

This all started with a query at MT Chat, which asked (in part): Can anyone tell me if it makes a difference which online program you use? I’ve heard that potential employers look for someone that’s been trained by an AHDI approved program. But when I asked Future MT, a non-approved program, they said that [...]

Just in case you didn’t know, we are in the “healthcare documentation sector.” We still do medical transcription and we’re still called medical transcriptionists, but only because there’s no organized group <ahem> that’s been able to either decide what else to call us and/or make it stick. However, medical transcriptionists everywhere can rejoice, knowing that [...]

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 [...]

In today’s ironic category, Nae Priest sent me an article from the AHDI Plexus publication (which I no longer get because I’m not a member). Diving into the Social Networking World strikes my funny irony bone because it’s written by Lea Sims, director of communications and marketing for AHDI. If there’s something AHDI hasn’t really [...]

I search the internet occasionally for interesting news about medical transcription and it seems all I find are these crappy sites. I ran into one this morning that really got me going, so I thought I’d share. Have you ever wondered why there are so many crappy articles and web sites devoted to medical transcription [...]

Ask me if I am at all surprised to hear there are some issues – and lots of questions and disagreements – with the visible black character “standard” that was concocted by a joint task force a couple years back. In addition to my first post about this at the old MT Exchange site, I [...]

I sometimes wish journalists valued responsible reporting as much as I do. I’m not getting paid, and I try to either verify what I’m saying is actual fact or I make sure I present it as my opinion or personal experience. It would please me mightily if the people who get paid and publish magazines [...]

There’s a cautionary tale inside the hype of medical transcription as a career and that is that there are a lot of scams. There are scam schools and there are scam jobs. Let’s focus on another shady area of transcription: the “certified medical transcriptionist.” I’m going out on a limb and expressing my opinion that [...]