The XY Files in an MT World

Attorney: Pre-HITECH Business Associate Contracts "Probably Need To Be Torn Up"

Jay Vance — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:38:00 GMT

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)

AHDI, MTIA Credit Member Advocacy For Withdrawal Of Foxx Amendment To H.R. 3854

Jay Vance — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:55:00 GMT

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)

Arrests Made In Indian Black Market Medical Records Investigation

Jay Vance — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:30:00 GMT

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)

A 50-Dollar Saddle On A 5-Dollar Horse

Jay Vance — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:11:00 GMT

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)

Update: More Details On MTIA/Verizon Health Information Exchange Project

Jay Vance — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:33:00 GMT

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)

Transcription Providers, Verizon To Create Health Information Exchange Infrastructure For Transcribed Medical Records

Jay Vance — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:26:00 GMT

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)

Medical Transcription Executives Discuss The State Of The Industry

Jay Vance — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:39:00 GMT

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)

Indian Business Consultant Says U.S. Largely Responsible For Demand For Black Market Medical Records

Jay Vance — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:23:00 GMT

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)

Medical Transcription Service Provider Webmedx Reacts To Indian Black Market Medical Records Scandal

Jay Vance — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:14:00 GMT

From PRNewswire.com comes a press release from Webmedx, fourth-largest U.S. medical transcription service provider: Atlanta-based Webmedx , the fourth largest medical transcription company in the World, cites the news of black market sales of medical...(read more)

HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 4: Protecting ePHI - Technical Safeguards

Jay Vance — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:23:00 GMT

164.312 Technical safeguards: A CE must, in accordance with the general rule: (a) Standard: Access control. Implement technical policies and procedures for electronic information systems that maintain ePHI to allow access only to those persons or software...(read more)

Offshore Medical Transcription Training In Barbados Experiences High Failure Rate

Jay Vance — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:00 GMT

From the Nation News in Barbados: The majority of Barbadian workers who underwent one year of Government-sponsored training in the medical transcription field, were put on the breadline because they were performing below the required standard of work....(read more)

New Study: Electronic Health Information Security A Problem In U.S. Too

Jay Vance — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:37:00 GMT

From Reuters comes word of a new survey of health information technology professionals that paints a sobering portrait of the state of health information security here in the U.S.: According to the October 2009 Ponemon report, Electronic Health Information...(read more)

Potential Offshore Outsourcing Catastrophe - Medical Records For Sale In India

Jay Vance — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:47:00 GMT

According to articles in The Economic Times and The Daily Mail , an undercover investigation by Britain's ITV1 television program "Tonight" has revealed that medical records of UK citizens are available for purchase from Indian black marketeers. Quoting...(read more)

Recap Of Webinar "Evolving Medical Transcription: Technology's Impact On Traditional Transcription Processes"

Jay Vance — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:14:00 GMT

There was a very good turnout for the webinar, over 160 attendees, I'm told. There were a number of questions asked, and my answers appear below. The entire presentation can be accessed free of charge at this link . Please feel free to post any comments...(read more)

Free Webinar On Technology And Medical Transcription

Jay Vance — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:47:00 GMT

On Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT, I'll be one of the presenters at a free webinar hosted by FierceEMR editor Neil Versel entitled Evolving Medical Transcription: Technology's impact on traditional transcription processes. Other presenters...(read more)