The XY Files in an MT World : Medical Transcription

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)

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)

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)

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)

HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 3: Protecting ePHI - Physical Safeguards

Jay Vance — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:26:00 GMT

Quoting from HIPAA Regulation: §164.312 A covered entity must, in accordance with § 164.306 : (a) (1) Standard: Facility access controls. Implement policies and procedures to limit physical access to its electronic information systems and the facility...(read more)

HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 2: Protecting ePHI - Administrative Safeguards

Jay Vance — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:18:00 GMT

For this second installment in a series of articles on the added responsibilities for transcription service providers under HITECH, I'll be drawing heavily from information from the HIPAA Survival Guide , specifically the section regarding the HIPAA Security...(read more)

HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 1: New Responsibilities For Business Associates

Jay Vance — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:48:00 GMT

In this first installment in a series of articles about how the HITECH portion of the ARRA legislation (also known as the stimulus bill) will change the way medical transcriptionists operate, I want to focus on some of the new obligations for business...(read more)

Are Medical Transcription's Days Numbered?

Jay Vance — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:26:00 GMT

From a post on MTChat.com : I think MTs are going to start losing actual real jobs a whole heap sooner in greater numbers than most of us are willing to admit is already happening. It is happening here in our area now and we do have a pretty good working...(read more)

CMS HIPAA Security Review: Encryption & Employee Background Checks Mandatory, MT Providers Next Under The Microscope?

Jay Vance — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:40:00 GMT

From the blog of attorney Adam Russo comes a review of an article from Report On Patient Privacy newsletter regarding the recent HIPAA Compliance Review Analysis report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): The first batch...(read more)

The Visible Black Character Debate Continues

Jay Vance — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:40:00 GMT

My colleague and fellow blogger Julie Weight recently wrote an article revisiting the visible black character (VBC) method of measurement recommended by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Medical Transcription Industry...(read more)