April 2009 - Posts

Beth Israel/Google Health Fiasco--Is Technology Really the Problem?
April 28, 2009 7:55 AM by Jay Vance

Recently the Boston Globe has been reporting on problems arising when Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sent insurance claims data (i.e., billing codes) to Google Health PHR as a means of summarizing patients' medical condition. As it turned out, this Read More...

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HHS Provides Guidance on Protecting PHI
April 21, 2009 8:24 AM by Jay Vance

When you see a document with a title such as Guidance Specifying the Technologies and Methodologies That Render Protected Health Information Unusable, Unreadable, or Indecipherable to Unauthorized Individuals for Purposes of the Breach Notification Requirements Read More...

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Update on MedQuist/AHDI Settlement
April 15, 2009 1:05 PM by Jay Vance

According to the updated MedQuist settlement FAQ page on the AHDI website, individuals eligible to participate in the MedQuist class settlement will be able to do so "no earlier than May 29, 2009." As I reported in an earlier post, the deadline for participation Read More...

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The End of Capitalism?
April 13, 2009 1:25 PM by Jay Vance

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams This has always been one of my favorite quotes from the Founding Fathers, and it seems to me to be more apropos than Read More...

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MedQuist Class Action Settlement Finalized
April 2, 2009 5:37 PM by Jay Vance

According to the MedQuist website , on March 31 the U.S. District Court of New Jersey entered final judgment approving the settlement of the medical transcriptionists' class action and dismissing the case with prejudice. The website provides links to Read More...

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A New Use for Speech Recognition
April 1, 2009 11:01 AM by Jay Vance

I came across a great new product I'd like to give to every physician who mispronounces or slurs words while dictating. It's the BuzzWord Speech Recognition Wristband . This handy gadget allows you to program words into its memory and when the wearer Read More...

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