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 [...]
I am Interviewed At Medical Transcriptionist Dot Org
I am interviewed at medicaltranscriptionist.org. Thanks to Jennifer Walsh, editor, medicaltranscriptionist.org, for interviewing me and publishing it on the site, it’s a first interview of such sort so far in my career as a medical transcriptionist.
The questions included: How I got into the medical transcription industry, my advice for someone aspiring to step into the [...]
Celebrate National Medical Transcriptionist Week May 18-24, 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 [...]
How EMR (EHR) Is Going To Affect Medical Transcription Industry?
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 [...]
Medical Transcription Blogs And Medical Transcriptionists’ Blogs
Ramon posed me an interesting question “Who is in my feed reader?” or to be precise “Which blogs on medical transcription do I regularly read?” Instead of answering the comment on that post itself, I thought it would be appropriate for me to share the list here so that everybody benefits from it. Before I [...]
Medical Transcription Info And News – Ramblings – October 2008
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