Posts Tagged ‘AHIMA’

Visible black character – cracks in the concrete

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 [...]

Checking credentials: CMT confusion

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 any [...]

Not so dark, just cloudy, side of medical transcription

I was reading Lynn Jusinski’s article in the latest issue of Advance on The Dark Side of Medical Transcription. The experiences related by Trudy Looney and some of her comments got me thinking about a state AHIMA meeting I attended years ago – probably 2002 or thereabouts.
Just a little bit about AHIMA. It’s a great [...]