Posts Tagged ‘MT’

Medical transcription schools and the FTC

In the internet marketing world, there's what's known as a flog. A flog is fake weblog. In other words, it looks like a real person writing about real experiences – while promoting a product.
In a prior post, Internet Marketers and Medical Transcription, I noted how medical transcription is an attractive target for internet marketers. What [...]

AHDI interactive – kind of

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 in public. [...]

Prepare for HITECH changes

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) [...]

Offshore MT security issues blaze into headlines

In his blog at Advance, Jay Vance spotlights a story about Potential Offshore Outsourcing Catastrophe – Medical Records For Sale In India. It’s a pretty interesting read  and although the sting operation was carried out by a UK team and involved UK records, it doesn’t take much to see that the same situation could be [...]

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 – [...]