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An inquiring friend on Facebook asked me these questions and my response was that I’ve been meaning to blog about some of these things, so I’m going to bring it here and answer. Thanks for your comments. I was curious what your take is on the state of the profession in light of the trend [...]

As usual, I’m a little behind on what has become the Annual Review of the Advance annual salary survey. Two years in a row counts as annual, right? (Last year’s review here.) This year, the study split out full time and part time, which gives a more accurate picture of what full-time MTs are making. [...]

I had the opportunity recently to do a presentation at the TEPR meeting in Palm Springs on verifying your outsourced transcription, met some new people and had a couple interesting debates about the VBC. After reviewing my initial blog about the visible black character and having these discussions, something occurred to me and of course [...]

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 [...]

Someone sent me a link to the United States Medical Language Specialists Union Initiative. You can go to the site to see it, but their mission statement is as follows: Organized to emphasize the necessary return of United States citizens’ patient information to United States-based Medical Information Specialists, Medical Transcriptionists and Medical Language Specialists, furthering the [...]

A couple of MTs have shared this with me. The class action suit brought by a group of medical transcriptionists against MedQuist. …lawsuit that was brought as a class action on behalf of current and former medical transcriptionist employees of MedQuist Inc. and MedQuist Transcription Ltd. (“MedQuist”). The suite alleges that MedQuist manipulated its company [...]

Happy 2009. Time to start over at MT Exchange. First, I’m changing this to a single-person industry blog. My personal blog can be found at Juliew8. I’ve also included a link in the blogroll. The microblog is my Twitter feed. If you are on Twitter, please feel free to follow me. If you have a [...]