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 shifting…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
Medical Transcription Info And News – Ramblings – October 2008
Heart disease is the leading cause of death – for men and women – outpacing cancer, AIDS and other diseases. Learn more about your cardiac health by seeing. View step-by-step educational animations to learn more about heart conditions and procedures at Cardiac Procedure and Condition Animation Library. Recessions are best times for bargain hunting, buyouts,…Read more
What Are The Future Prospects Of Medical Transcription In India?
In the US, medical transcription business is a $10 to $25 billion industry (annually). NASSCOM predicts a potential annual revenue of Rs. 4000 crore and employment for 50,000 people by 2008 in this industry. The number of medical transcriptionists in the US has remained static while the demand for transcriptionists is growing by about 15%…Read more
