February 7, 2011 | In: Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing
Whether you are a hospital entity, a doctor or a patient that needs Medical Transcription Services, the internet is a viable means for outsourcing such a service. What is medical transcription? Medical transcription is a process that involves ...
January 18, 2011 | In: Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing, Medicare Incentive
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. There are two facets two HIPAA and one of these affects Medical Transcription Services . The purview of HIPAA includes electronic health care transactions. According to the rules and...
January 12, 2011 | In: Health, Health Care, health IT, Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing
The cardiology transcriptionist converts voice file, which contains patient health information, into an electronic file. The file is encrypted and sent back safely to the physician, who then decrypts it back to the original form. The stored information...
January 12, 2011 | In: Health, Health Care, health IT, Hospital, Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing
The HIPAA compliance norms make it necessary for the health entities and their business associates like medical transcription company to incorporate a security audit system in the network. The purpose is to maintain vigil on the all the electronic...
September 25, 2010 | In: CCHIT, EMR Stimulus Package, Health Care, health IT, HITECH Act, Medical Transcription
Recently, I decided to do a little investigation. We all keep hearing about and thus talking about the new levels of mandated compliance. Not only hospitals have to adhere to the changes, but clinics and physicians offices as well. Of course, my impetus...
September 1, 2010 | In: Medical Billing, Medical Billing Errors, Medical Transcription, Physician
When it comes to the practice of medical billing, precision is absolutely paramount to ensuring that payment from claims submitted to insurance companies, or respective administration entities, is received by the doctor or other licensed health care...
August 3, 2010 | In: Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law, Physician
By mtph on June 29th, 2010 The Internet Cafe Association of Cebu (ICAC), a group ofInternet cafe operators in the province, is considering plans to capitalize on the growing number of online gamers as potential medical transcriptionists. ICAC...
June 29, 2010 | In: Medical Transcription, Medicare Law, Physician
A run-on sentence. A misspelled drug. A superfluous comma. Heck, maybe even a split infinitive. Dictation errors can irk word-wary MTs, but should they be forced to overlook such grammatical offenses? Thus begins the debate over verbatim transcription, a...
June 16, 2010 | In: EHR, EMR, Medical Transcription
West Virginia has received $6 million in federal stimulus funds to establish a regional health information technology extension center. The center has been designated as the statewide organization to provide education, training and support services...
June 12, 2010 | In: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Medical Transcription
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week announced $83.9 million in grants to help networks of health centers implement electronic health records and other healthcare-related IT systems. The grants are part of the $2 billion...
June 12, 2010 | In: EHR, EMR, Health Care, Medical Transcription
By Jim Frederick WASHINGTON (Jun. 1) Capping a decade-long -– and ultimately victorious -– battle by pharmacy and technology interests to modernize all facets of the prescription prescribing and dispensing process, the Drug Enforcement...
June 9, 2010 | In: Medical Transcription
The medical transcription industry has been evolving for years and is today a respectable profession that pays well and professional medical transcriptionists (MT) get all the required support from various medical transcription industry organizations....
June 9, 2010 | In: EMR, HIMSS, Medical Transcription
CHICAGO – Officials of HIMSS Analytics, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and management System Society (HIMSS), announced Wednesday they would be adding new questions to their annual study on meaningful use to gauge ...
June 5, 2010 | In: drug, Medical Transcription, Medicare Law, Physician
With our nation engaged in dialogue around health care reform, and health care delivery engaged in discussions around what “meaningful use” of EHRs will look like, there has never been a more important time for the health care documentation sector to...
May 21, 2010 | In: Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing
By Maureen McKinney Using bar-code verification technology for medication administration can significantly reduce error rates and decrease the likelihood of adverse events, according to a newly published study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In...
