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I found this tidbit on another site today addressing an amendment to the health care bill.  See below: “The HITECH bill would also hold business associates — such as billing and medical transcription services — to equal security and privacy standards as the controllers of health care data. The new bill gets rid of the many loopholes…

 I have done a bit of research on some of the electronic medical records (EMR) software that is out there today and some of it is staggering.  Imagine, this software can store your patient’s office visits, provide a medication list and categorize reports in just about any fashion you desire!  However, the cost of these…

I just finished reading a few articles about the Health Care bill and some of the provisions for reimbursing physicians who adopt electronic health records (EHR) and it is pretty confusing.  From what I can gather a physician can indeed apply for some reimbursement for converting to EHR starting around 2010; however, there seems to…

I did some research on the N1H1 virus because I was a bit concerned as to why there seemed to be such a panic about this virus and here is what I learned. Most people have been vaccinated or have antibodies already against the two common strains of flu.  These two types seem to be…

As we approach a bill for health care, I begin to wonder how that will impact those in the medical transcription field.  There are several factors to consider, i.e. EMR, VR, Medicare, Medicaid and so on.  One assumption I am going to make here is that electronic medical records will play a fairly large part in this…