Interactive PHRs Make Patients More Proactive
PHRs may not be popular, but consumers who use them are more likely to go in for cancer screenings and other important preventive care. From InformationWeek Article July 16, 2012 Patients who use interactive online personal health records (PHRs) are more likely to stay up to date with their screenings for cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, [...]
Read moreAfter healthcare ruling come doubts that some states can meet key deadlines
From article in the Washington Post July 2, 2012 With Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama’s landmark health-care law, debate has shifted to whether deadlines key to the law’s goal of expanding coverage to tens of millions of Americans will be pushed back. Some say states and the federal government are facing such complex [...]
Read moreEHRs Linked to Errors, Harm, AMA Says
From InformationWeek article by Ken Terry A new AMA report on patient safety in ambulatory care finds that safety problems are widespread but that little is known about which problems cause the most harm. Among the uncertainties cited by the AMA researchers is the contribution of electronic health records (EHRs) to patient safety. “The use [...]
Read moreThe Alphabet Soup of Medical Information: EHR, EMR and PHR
Many people have tossed around the terms EHR and EMR as being one and the same and indeed, they are similar. Add to the mix the acronym PHR too; however, they are not the same thing and it’s essential that all service providers from medical transcriptionists to software vendors and users know what the differences [...]
Read moreHIPAA and HITECH Information Resources
The information below is a re-post from a previous post here on MyGearTools but has been updated. Accurate information is a great asset any time we can find it. Each of these sources has posted new and updated information that is important to all of us who come into contact with patient health information. Over [...]
Read moreBest MT Resources List
I know that many of you that are regular readers of the My GearTools blog have seen references to various resources that are available for medical transcriptionist in some of the postings here. In an attempt to compile a more complete list of the most useful resources I would like to seed the discussion with [...]
Read moreMore HIPAA/HITECH Resources
We’ve had a chance to see now that HIPAA/HITECH really is going to impact the medical transcription business and we know preserving and maintaining confidentiality of Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) is essential to comply with HIPAA. Okay, now where can we get the latest information regarding HIPAA to keep updating our own knowledgebase? Where [...]
Read moreReference Book: Technology for the Medical Transcriptionist
This is the first text that satisfies the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity’s (AHDI) model curriculum requirement for technology. As you advance through the text you’ll be introduced to the essential hardware, software and technology that all medical transcriptionists should know and may be required to use on the job. Note only will you learn ned concepts and applications, you’ll also discover [...]
Read moreDesk Reference Book, Quick & Easy Medical Terminology, 5th Edition
The title says it all. With this superb fifth edition of Peggy Leonard’s popular resource, you can quickly and easily learn to recognize, interpret, pronounce and use thousands of medical terms correctly. The first five chapters explain how medical terms are created by combining prefixes, suffixes and combining forms. They also introduce you to terminology [...]
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