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7 GREAT WAYS TO PREPARE FOR MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION TEST

Medical transcription companies select medical transcriptionists after taking initial tests. In this article; we look at the different ways through which medical transcriptionists can prepare for the test. Medical transcription companies have different evaluation techniques for assessing the skills and knowledge of an MT during the hiring process. Medical transcription tests generally consist of grammar, vocabulary, and typing tests with selected voice files. They can be stressful if proper preparation [...]

 

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5 Definite Reasons To Integrate Transcription With EMR System

Medical transcription business has reached a new milestone with the integration of eMR. In this article; we look at different reasons to integrate transcription services with eMR system. With the emergence of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system; there was a big question mark over the medical transcription industry. But with the synchronization of both these processes medical practitioners have been able to save lot of time, increase productivity and get [...]

 

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8 DEFINITIVE SKILLS REQUIRED IN MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS

Medical transcriptionists need to have certain key skill-sets to be successful in medical transcription domain. In this article; we look at distinct skill-sets required by medical transcriptionists in medical transcription business. Medical transcriptionbusiness is expanding on a daily basis. We are already seeing a lot of demand for specialized services of medical transcriptionists in the market. There are several skill sets required for a medical transcriptionist to be successful in [...]

 

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RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE FOLLOWED BY MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS

Medical transcriptionists need to follow some codes of ethics forprotecting the privacy and confidentiality of the patient information. In thisarticle; we look at these codes of ethics and understand how they affect themedical transcriptionists. Medical transcription business is a highly demanding affair which deals withprotecting the personal information of patients in a highly secure manner. The codes of ethics have been designed insuch a manner that they are applicable to [...]

 

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Apple iPad application certified for "meaningful use"

A company specializing in digital medical applications via cloud computing has announced that its free Apple iPad app has been certified for “meaningful use” by physicians as an electronic health records (EHR) platform. InfoGard, a Health and Human Services-authorized testing body, determined that the drchrono app meets the meaningful use criteria laid out in the 2009 stimulus act to encourage adoption of electronic medical record systems, making its use eligible [...]

 

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Patient management mysteries

Improved patient control leads to better outcomes

 

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Medical Transcription Services and HIPAA Compliance

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 regulations put in place by this Act, all providers of such health care transactions should maintain the national standards that have been designated for the same. All clients using medical transcription services [...]

 

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Minimal health IT standards, data control are a start for learning health system

A minimum of required health IT standards and centralization of data is what’s needed to foster the best climate in which to develop a learning health system and provide a foundation for its expansion, according to the Institute of Medicine. These were some of the main conclusions garnered from various workshops held throughout 2010, sponsored by the IOM and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, which focused on [...]

 

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ICAC Group mulls training gamers in medical transcription

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 President Felix Cogal said some medical transcriptiontraining centers have considered tapping Internet cafes to become an “extended laboratory” for medical transcription students. “The market has recognized the growth potential of medical transcription and Internetcafes can complement their needs by becoming an extended laboratory for their [...]

 

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Incentive Payments for E-prescribing

In its attempts to widely disperse and advocate the use of electronic prescribing (or more popularly known as e-prescribing), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun providing incentive payments of up to 2 percent to eligible physicians and other health care providers using this technology for the year 2009. According to the Medicare E-prescribing Incentive Program, prescribers using a qualified e-prescribing system began receiving payments from Medicare [...]

 

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Delaware seeds Medicaid e-prescribing boom

By Heather B. Hayes The state of Delaware credits a decision a year ago to fund e-prescribing start-up costs for the top Medicaid providers in the state for a 150 percent jump in the number of Medicaid providers now using the e-health service. The top-down approach, which included offering e-prescribing technology and training services to the top 50 Medicaid providers in the state, has sparked adoption of prescribing by one [...]

 

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CMS to allow EHR reporting for PQRI, e-prescribing bonuses in 2010

By Neil Versel, The new Medicare Part B fee schedule for 2010 is encouraging doctors to adopt EHRs by, for the first time, allowing practices to use real clinical data from EHRs and e-prescribing systems to report quality measures for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and e-prescribing incentive programs. The change, according to CMS, is “to promote adoption and use of electronic health records and to provide both eligible [...]

 

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Medicare proposal would simplify PQRI

By: Allison Tsai Medicare is proposing a rule that would simplify reporting requirements for the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program and the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative and set the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2010. The proposal would also add more measures for physicians to report under the PQRI pay-for-performance program, allow data submission from an electronic health record system and create a process to ease quality measure reporting [...]

 

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AMA enhances its e-prescribing help site

Now all physicians can access guidance on everything from selecting a system to calculating incentive earnings. By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff. The American Medical Association has unveiled its enhanced online e-prescribing learning center and opened it up to all physicians. The learning center, first launched April 1, offers a one-stop shop for physicians seeking information on e-prescribing and advice on how to get started. The site recently was enhanced [...]

 

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Incentives to e-Prescribe

By Lorraine Savage Everyone, it seems, wants doctors to e-prescribe. Physicians are facing an onslaught of government incentives, state and local urgings, and healthcare and consumer organizations’ guilt to make the transition from antiquated paper prescription pads to 21st century electronic prescription systems. Medicare Incentive Program The biggest step toward universal e-prescribing was the passage on July 15, 2008 of the new Medicare law that includes an incentive program to [...]