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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

Online home study courses have allowed many people to study for a new career in the comfort of their own home, and the amount of training programs available is quite extensive, compared to several years ago, when such technology wasn’t available. No longer do you have to sit in a classroom on a specified day [...]

We started a medical transcription forum here at MT Herald a couple of weeks ago just as a trial effort to help our small community of MTs building around MT Herald, but unfortunately it is receiving more spam registrations daily than real users!  Identifying those spam registrations and banning those IDs has itself become a [...]

Nowadays reliable online retail stores are a boon for people working from home especially from remote places where one needs to drive a few hours from home to reach a shop.  A few days ago I too have been leisurely rambling around the Internet, shopping from the convenience of home when I noticed an interesting [...]

We now know how HIPAA/HITECH is going to impact the medical transcription business and we know preserving and maintaining confidentiality of Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) as good as an army secret to comply with HIPAA.  Okay, now where can we further get the latest information regarding HIPAA to keep updating our knowledgebase?  Where can [...]

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 [...]