Medical transcription exchange
I have been cleaning up my office, including file drawers, and in the process pulled out a real treasure I’ve been keeping for over 20 years. It’s a test transcript done by someone hoping to work for me back in 1990. It was so memorable, I kept it. It’s now in the shredder, but it Read More …
I was reviewing AHDI’s Healthcare Documentation Quality Assessment and Management Best Practices (updated July 2017) recently and reading some of the comments here at MT Exchange and a thought occurred to me. If I’m being really objective about documentation accuracy and accountability, and quality assessment, I’d add a category and quality point scoring system for dictation Read More …
At the heart of the accuracy and accountability issue is the owner of the record, the physician. And if the owner doesn’t care about accuracy (or style, format, grammar and punctuation), should the transcriptionist? For me, it comes down to personal integrity. Does a doctor know that a short arm cast is not the same Read More …
How did accuracy in medical transcription take a back seat? Why do medical professionals accept and sign off on reports that are replete with inaccuracies? These are questions I’ve asked myself a lot in the last couple of months. You see, I spent years obsessing over transcription done accurately. Not just accurately transcribing what’s dictated, Read More …
Years ago, I took the position that if someone accepts a job, at the rate of pay offered, they would be obligated to do their very best and not claim they aren’t paid enough to do a good job. For a medical transcriptionist, that may mean, among other things, looking up unfamiliar words, searching for the Read More …
I was reading the Los Angeles Times on Sunday and came across an interesting article that referenced an even more interesting report: Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers (PDF file). Without debating whether or not the majority of medical transcriptionists meet the definition of low-wage workers, there were too many points in the Times article that made me nod Read More …
Let me clarify that title: time for US-based medical transcriptionists to hang up their keyboards? Some who seem to have found the few rays of sunshine still beaming down onto the medical transcription industry seem to have suddenly noticed that it’s dark in the room and the blinds are open – and joined me on Read More …
Not that this is anything new in the world of medical transcription… KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico reported this month that the University of New Mexico hospital has outsourced to Nuance and consequently laid off 57 medical transcriptionists. Two things to note in this news article: One employee says many of the medical transcriptionists have Read More …
I noted almost a year ago that I took over the forums at Productivity Talk. Coincidentally, it’s been about that long since I’ve written a post here, too. Well, it’s been a busy year, and kind of an enlightening one in many respects, but I’m going to talk about enlightenment with respect to the Productivity Read More …
Two weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Cheryl Flanders, the owner of Productivity Talk. She wanted to know if I’d take over the site. We had a discussion and I ended up saying yes. I’m pretty excited about it, actually – and not just because it’s a shiny object. There’s a lot of information Read More …