November 2009 - Posts

Attorney: Pre-HITECH Business Associate Contracts "Probably Need To Be Torn Up"
November 16, 2009 7:38 AM by Jay Vance

Writing for American Medical News , attorney Steven Harris warns of new requirements for contracts between covered entities and business associates post-HITECH: Think your business associate agreements sufficiently protect your rights? Now figure in new Read More...

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AHDI, MTIA Credit Member Advocacy For Withdrawal Of Foxx Amendment To H.R. 3854
November 16, 2009 6:55 AM by Jay Vance

A blog post last week by Lea Sims, Director of Professional Programs for the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), credits advocacy efforts by members of AHDI and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) in persuading Read More...

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Arrests Made In Indian Black Market Medical Records Investigation
November 12, 2009 10:30 AM by Jay Vance

The Daily Mail Online is reporting today that two arrests have been made and an arrest warrant is out on a third suspect in the case of confidential health records being offered for sale to undercover journalists. Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode, the head of Read More...

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A 50-Dollar Saddle On A 5-Dollar Horse
November 12, 2009 8:11 AM by Jay Vance

Back in May of 2009 I wrote a highly enthusiastic blog post entitled " Lessons From An iPhone ." It's with a great deal of disappointment and outright irritation that I now compose the sad sequel, which I could just have easily called "Lessons From A Read More...

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Update: More Details On MTIA/Verizon Health Information Exchange Project
November 4, 2009 6:33 PM by Jay Vance

From a press release from MD-IT , one of the charter members of the Medical Transcription Service Consortium, with some interesting tidbits highlighted: The Medical Transcription Service Consortium (MTSC) – formed by ICSA Labs, an independent division Read More...

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Transcription Providers, Verizon To Create Health Information Exchange Infrastructure For Transcribed Medical Records
November 4, 2009 12:26 PM by Jay Vance

In a move reported by Reuters and other sources, a newly formed industry group called the Medical Transcription Service Consortium has announced plans to create "a new IT platform for the secure exchange of digitized transcriptions of physician-dictated Read More...

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Medical Transcription Executives Discuss The State Of The Industry
November 3, 2009 1:39 PM by Jay Vance

Interesting read from For The Record magazine featuring Jay Cannon, president and chief information officer of Webmedx; Ethan Cohen, president of SPi’s healthcare division; and Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy at Read More...

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Indian Business Consultant Says U.S. Largely Responsible For Demand For Black Market Medical Records
November 3, 2009 3:23 AM by Jay Vance

From Na Vijayashankar ("Naavi") at www.naavi.org comes a strong response to the Indian black market medical records scandal in general and the resulting comments by Webmedx CEO Sean Carroll in particular (emphases mine): "To put the incident in the proper Read More...

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