Aug 31 2009

HIPAA Compliance Guidelines & Tips For Medical Transcriptionists

HIPAA compliance guidelines and information for medical transcriptionists

Do you know almost all of the email messages that you send and receive travel over many networks and computers leaving copies of themselves all over the Internet?  Unbelievable?  Perform a trace route yourself and then believe!  From your computer it takes multiple hops before the message could reach the server at the destination.  So [...]

Aug 25 2009

HIPAA Compliance In Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post HITECH

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Compliance In Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post HITECH Act

It’s almost 6-1/2 years we, medical transcriptionists, have been with HIPAA since April 14, 2003.  How effective was HIPAA compliance in medical transcription all these days?  Where do the medical transcription industry stand in terms of HIPAA pre-enactment of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act?
The truth is that HIPAA [...]

Aug 17 2009

Free Medical Transcription Softwares. Download & Resource Center

Free medical transcription software download and resource center

For the past few posts we have been trying to find all the available free softwares for medical transcription on the Internet such as free voice file players, free text expanders, AutoCorrect migration utility, online free typing tutors etc., and we made a custom free medical spell checker of our own with the available online [...]

Aug 3 2009

Free Medical Spell Checker For Microsoft Word, Custom Dictionary

Installation instructions of free medical spelling checker for Microsoft Word

Without a medical spell checker installed, it is irritating to transcribe with MS Word with those red underscores all over the document.  You get frustrated adding such underlined words every time to the inbuilt custom dictionary of Microsoft Word by right clicking and adding.  To avoid such repeated annoyance, the more permanent solution would be [...]