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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

AHDI,  (The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, formerly known as AAMT,  The American Association for Medical Transcription) celebrates ‘National Medical Transcriptionist Week’ every year in May for the critical role that we, medical transcriptionists, (healthcare documentation specialists) play in the accurate capture and documentation of patient encounter information. This year in light of the shifting [...]

Ever since healthcare reforms started to surface in Obama’s speeches or rather after he signed the stimulus package to law setting aside $19.2 billion for healthcare IT alone to reach a goal of full EHR by 2014 promising hundreds of thousands of new jobs by boosting healthcare, the question “How is it going to benefit [...]

I get queries either in person or in email asking opinions about some specific institution offering medical transcription course, or requests to suggest a reputed, reliable, good medical transcription coaching institute, or if I would recommend joining the course at a particular well known educational institution, government or private.  Always I used to remain mum [...]

Search, search, search and still search.  Search here, search there, search in this, search in that, search in this book, search in that search engine – medical transcriptionists are those unlucky searchers who always keep on searching something that they haven’t lost!  Oh Jesus, what all acrobats we do before catching a word? Half of [...]