Top Ten Medical Transcription Articles Of MT Herald In 2009
We are at the fag end of 2009. Yet another year has passed so quickly and we are older (and wiser) by one more year! It’s time to take stock of our accomplishments last year, assess the effectivity of the already made resolutions, plan activities for the next year, and make New Year resolutions. Where…Read more
HIPAA Blogs, Email Newsletters, And Useful Information Resources
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…Read more
HIPAA Compliance Guidelines & Tips 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…Read more
HIPAA Compliance In Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post HITECH
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 has…Read more
What Does the Medical Transcription Training Consist of?
Medical transcription training basically involves equipping you with improving your listening skills, improving language, throwing some light into human anatomy and physiology, disease process, medical terminologies, drugs for various diseases, normal lab values, medical report style and formatting, confidentiality, legalities, familiarity with medical records and ethics, learning typing and improving to speedy typing, exposure to…Read more
How is Medical Transcription Done?
In the medical transcription workflow process, primarily, the doctors on their part dictate their messages into digital voice recorders, personal digital assistants (PDAs), tapes, Dictaphones etc., and transfer the recorded voice messages to a server to be accessed by the medical transcriptionist. On the part of a medical transcriptionist, the medical transcription process involves retrieving…Read more
