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…
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Transcription software.
Just a brief note and an unsolicited endorsement of an overlooked software program for Medical Transcriptionists. I have been using a program called Smart Type for a number of years and I have been very happy with it. This software comes preprogrammed with thousands of medical terms and medications. I know there are several programs…
Primary Care and EMR.
As a transcriptionist, I do reports all of the time for specialists who see a referral and end up having to backtrack to the patient’s primary physician to get records from previous labs and tests. It would seem to me that, if a primary care physician were to at least convert to some type of local EMR…
Primary Care Physicians and the Health Care Bill
I have been listening to the debate over health care and learned today that one of the bigger issues not being addressed is the current shortage of Primary Care Physicians. It seems that fewer physicians are choosing primary care because of the lower income, higher cost of education and high cost of being in business. The prediction…
HIPAA, Offshore Transcription and You.
I spent hours today going over the HIPAA, HITECH and ARRA bills that go into effect this year regarding EHR (electronic health records) and the litany of rules and regulations can be mind boggling. http://www.hipaa.com/2009/04/pay-attention-to-hitech-act-definition-of-breach-lost-customers-big-cost-factor/ I am going to pay some attention to the particular page posted on HIPAA.com (above) with respect to the incident…