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Re-Dictation: Harnessing the Power of Front-End Speech Recognition Technology
February 23, 2009 8:54 AM by Jay Vance

As all long-time transcriptionists know, years of high-level production transcription inevitably take a toll on the fingers and wrists. What many MTs may not know, however, is that modern consumer speech recognition technology (SRT) offers a possible Read More...

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Bits & Pieces
February 17, 2009 3:10 PM by Jay Vance

Here are a few items of information from the past week I thought you might be interested in. 1. Transcription Service Provider Runs Afoul of the VA From a Department of Veterans Affairs press release : During a routine internal inspection, the Department Read More...

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Where Has All My Data Gone?
February 2, 2009 1:26 PM by Jay Vance

Several years ago I was "inspired" to write a number of parody songs about the medical transcription business, the Internet, and personal computing in general. One of the songs was an ode to the dangers of not backing up computer files entitled, " Where Read More...

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Just for the Record, the MT Business Is Alive and Well
January 27, 2009 7:31 AM by Jay Vance

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time over the years perusing online MT forums, I've learned that if there's one thing you can count on in such venues, it's the chronic naysayer. For these folks, the glass isn't just half empty, it fell off the Read More...

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More Details Emerge Regarding MedQuist Class Action Settlement
January 19, 2009 1:40 PM by Jay Vance

The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) has updated its website to include answers to frequently asked questions regarding the proposed settlement to the class action lawsuit brought against MedQuist on behalf of certain current Read More...

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MedQuist Class Action Settlement Goes to AHDI; No Money to Individual MTs
January 12, 2009 9:16 AM by Jay Vance

I woke up this morning to find a Google Alert in my inbox regarding a most interesting post on Julie Weight's MT Exchange blog . The blog post quoted a MedQuist memorandum to its transcriptionists announcing the settlement of a lawsuit "...that was brought Read More...

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The Blind Leading the Sighted
December 30, 2008 7:41 AM by Jay Vance

In this era of general financial uncertainty and increasing pressure to produce more in less time in the medical transcription field, we MTs should always be on the lookout for ways to raise productivity in order to increase compensation. There is any Read More...

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CAPTCHA: More Than Just A Spam-Fighter
December 15, 2008 11:33 AM by Jay Vance

Here's one more item to file under "Interesting Facts About The Internet I Never Knew." At one time or another we've all had to fill out one of those "CAPTCHA" thingies where you view distorted text (or listen to distorted audio) and type the words or Read More...

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Social Networking: The Future of Professional Associations?
December 8, 2008 8:58 AM by Jay Vance

Recently I came across a blog posting about a new social networking group called Circle of Moms . Launched in October 2008, the group already has over 850,000 members who have created over 1000 communities dealing with everything from raising toddlers Read More...

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A Typewriter Repairman Grows in Manhattan
November 24, 2008 8:43 AM by Jay Vance

I read a delightful story from BusinessWeek this morning entitled, "The Last Typewriter Repairman?" It's about Paul Schweitzer, a 69-year-old New Yorker who still offers typewriter repair services in Manhattan--and he makes house calls, no less. It occurred Read More...

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A Major Step Forward for PHRs
November 19, 2008 11:27 AM by Jay Vance

On November 12, acting CMS administrator Kerry Weems and HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt announced a pilot program which will enable Medicare members in Arizona and Utah to use their choice of four commercial personal health record (PHR) providers to access Read More...

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Who Should Control Health Records?
November 5, 2008 12:53 PM by Jay Vance

It seems inevitable to me that sooner or later we're going to have some form of standardized electronic health records (EHRs) in this country. However, it is by no means clear at this point what such a system will ultimately look like. There's still a Read More...

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Assisted PHRs--A New Opportunity for MTs?
October 27, 2008 10:02 AM by Jay Vance

A company called UNIVAL has recently begun offering a service they call yourRecords , which helps individuals set up a personal health record (PHR) using Microsoft's HealthVault application . UNIVAL offers three levels of service. The first, which is Read More...

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Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
October 21, 2008 10:15 AM by Jay Vance

I must confess I had never heard this phrase until today when I read a Crossover Health blog post quoting Anna-Lisa Silvestre, VP of Online Services for Kaiser Permanente, regarding Kaiser's commitment to "Health 2.0." Said Silvestre: "Health 2.0 implies Read More...

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What’s Wrong With Wanting to Work in Your Pajamas?
September 5, 2008 8:44 AM by Jay Vance

For as long as I've been a part of the medical transcription community, there's been an ongoing debate about folks for whom the primary attraction of being an MT is working at home. In some circles these MTs are looked down upon as not being "real professionals." Read More...

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