5 Ways To Improve Healthcare Information Exchanges
From article posted on HealthInformation – HealthCare February 19, 2013 Recent comments made by a number of leaders throughout the industry show clear discontentment with the state of health information exchanges. As William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, president of the Health Record Banking Alliance, recently pointed out, the current nationwide network of health information exchanges is [...]
Read moreTranscription Outsourcing Leads to Woman’s Death, $140M Settlement
The family of Sharon Juno, 59 at the time of her death, was awarded the largest civil wrongful death judgment in Baldwin County’s history. A Baldwin County, Alabama, jury returned the $140 million dollar settlement to Sharon Juno’s family following her death from an insulin overdose in 2008, said Fox10TV. Juno, a life-long diabetic who [...]
Read moreThe Role and Relevance of Medical Transcription to EMR Adoption
Ambulatory EMR adoption is an endemic national concern. According to a survey conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine only 4% of respondents have a fully functional EMR (with order-entry and clinical-decision support capabilities) and 13% have a basic system. Article by George Catuogno posted on ExecutiveHealthcare.com The U.S. healthcare system initiative to develop [...]
Read moreHIMSS Asks Congress for Patient Identity System–Again
Health Information Management and Systems Society believes up to 14% of medical records have wrong, potentially dangerous info due to misidentification. New system might include biometrics. From InformationWeek Healthcare article, September 26, 2012 For the second year in a row, the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) has urged Congress to support the establishment [...]
Read moreMedical Transcription: History Overview
The first health records were hand written by physicians. These records, even hospital and operative records, were brief, with little elaboration, but were generally regarded as adequate. In 1913 the American College of Surgeons was founded. One of its main objectives was to improve the standards of surgical practice through the standardization of hospital records. Their 1918 survey [...]
Read moreICD-10 Delay Doesn’t Address Procedural Hurdles, Critics Say
Update From HealthLeaders Media Dated April 10, 2012 The federal government’s proposed rule that would delay for one year the implementation date for ICD-10 buys providers more time but does nothing to address underlying procedural problems that could wreak havoc when the diagnostic code set eventual goes live, one observer says. “Yes, an additional year [...]
Read moreThe All Important Medical Transcription Resume
Resume creation is a vital part of getting a job in any field. When applying for medical transcription positions, this is the case as well. When a hiring employer sees your resume, it is their first impression of you and you want that to be a good one. There are specific ways to make your [...]
Read moreMT vs. Dictation Editor — What’s the Difference?
By Denise M. O’Neal, For The Record Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 5 In more than a decade of transcribing, I had always been called a medical transcriptionist (MT), and I had never known the occupation to be termed anything else—until recently. When I was hired for my present position a little more than three [...]
Read more3 Steps to Minimize the ‘Data Breach Epidemic’
From article on GovernmentHealthIT.com The frequency of data breaches in healthcare have increased 32 percent in the past year and cost the industry an estimated $6.5 billion annually according to the second annual benchmarking study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Among the chief culprits responsible for data security breaches were sloppy employee handling of data [...]
Read moreWhat’s Up With These On Line Services?
Medical transcription services are required to convert oral communication recordings into their written equivalents. Of course, this can be done without turning to the Internet, but you will find that online services are pretty much taking over the industry because of the ease with which they can accomplish the job, and the speed with which [...]
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