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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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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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“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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It's Always May
September 23, 2008 2:12 PM by Jay Vance

During much of my time in the medical transcription industry, I've been a technical troubleshooter. I've always been a technology wonk, all the way back to the days of the original Color Computer from Radio Shack, which competed against the Commodore Read More...

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Editing Speech Recognition Transcripts--Multitaskers Beware!
August 15, 2008 10:29 AM by Jay Vance

Over the past few years I've had the opportunity to speak to MT groups across the country and write professional journal articles on the realities of speech recognition editing. Since the vast majority of my live audiences are women, I like to break the Read More...

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