By Lauren Richman, Director of Marketing for HIM Solutions, Nuance Healthcare Welcome to Voices: Speech Recognition in the HIM World blog, where you will hear the latest commentary from a collaboration of HIM experts that ranges from real-world case examples, industry trend analysis, best practice tips, productivity boosting methods, to many ...

Ouch. That's about all I can say (and really, all I can think) after overexerting myself this weekend. A few of my friends have been doing P90 X, an extreme workout plan that includes several videos, each of which features a different routine, i.e. abs, arms, yoga. The idea is to rotate videos so you exercise different muscles each day. Well, ...

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 Network'' or perhaps more true to my feelings, ''It's the Stupid Network, Stupid.'' The truth ...

No matter your stance on war, it's only right to honor and thank veterans who put their lives on the line for our country. Military personnel witness firsthand what most of us find too hard to watch through a camera lens, and it's bound to have an impact. The least we could do, then, is offer quality health care upon their return. The Department ...

November is not only the start of the holiday season, but also the time of year when HIM professionals celebrate Health Information and Technology (HI&T) Week. This is our week to pat ourselves on the back and celebrate the achievements made during the year. I am sure that HIM professionals across the country will showcase their ...

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 of Verizon Business, and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) – will develop ...

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 patient notes.'' Creation of the MTSC was spearheaded by the Medical ...

(Editor's note: The following blog was written by Mark McGraw, an associate editor on staff at ADVANCE.) It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the ''Winner: Best Foreign Language Film, 2008 Venice Film Festival'' sticker on it. But tonight you're in the mood for a ...

If you've been following Jay's blog, ''XY Files in and MT World,'' recently, you know there have been some frightening reports of medical records being sold overseas. It's enough to make you hunker down in the States and demand your records stay local. On the contrary, some patients are ditching domestic services and seeking medical care abroad. ...

The introductory course I teach in health information technology (HIT) gives students the basics on health information. This week I did a lecture on the diversity of career options available in HIT. Students coming into the program are usually familiar with coding and transcription, but they are not familiar with other ...