May 18 2009

Celebrate National Medical Transcriptionist Week May 18-24, 2009

National medical transcription week,  National medical transcriptionist week 2009

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 [...]

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May 18 2009

How EMR (EHR) Is Going To Affect Medical Transcription Industry?

screen shot of a lady doctor using EMR on a tablet PC

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 [...]

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