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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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A Call for Plug-and-Play EHRs
May 22, 2009 10:37 AM by Jay Vance

Nothing like great timing. In my last blog post, I suggested that electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) technology needs to become more like an iPhone in order to achieve widespread acceptance from technology-shy physicians and Read More...

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Lessons from an iPhone
May 19, 2009 8:33 AM by Jay Vance

I admit it, I was suffering from iPhone envy. As an unabashed technophile (i.e., hard-core geek), I couldn't help but be intrigued by all the cool things the iPhone was supposedly capable of doing. When one of your colleagues says something to the effect Read More...

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National Verbatim Transcription Day
May 4, 2009 6:12 PM by Jay Vance

What do you suppose it would take for the health care field, not to mention politicians and the general public, to truly understand and appreciate the value medical transcriptionists bring to the healthcare documentation process? I've thought about this Read More...

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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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“Reinvestment Is Not Just About Technology”
March 16, 2009 4:03 PM by Jay Vance

The above is the title of a very insightful and thought-provoking blog post by Dr. Nick van Terheyden, Chief Medical Officer for M*Modal. He begins his article by quoting another blog post by Julian Alssid and Jonathan Leviss, who contend that investing Read More...

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Is Speech Rec Wrecked?
March 9, 2009 1:25 PM by Jay Vance

In response to my fellow HIM Insider blogger Jeanne Johnston's post entitled " Speech Wreck ," I'd like to offer my own perspective on the use of speech recognition technology (SRT) in medical transcription. I have a fair amount of experience with back-end Read More...

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HITECH Makes Business Associates Liable Under HIPAA
March 2, 2009 11:14 AM by Jay Vance

Medical transcription providers should be educating themselves on how the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus bill, is changing Read More...

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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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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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Society For Exorbitantly Expensive And Difficult To Implement EHRs (SEEDIE)
November 10, 2008 11:58 AM by Jay Vance

Someone alerted me to this spoof website and I got a big kick out of it. It's a great followup to my last post regarding implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system in this country. From the website's " SEEDIEspeak " page: SEEDIE invites industry Read More...

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