By Elizabeth S. Goar for For the Record Step inside several departments that have—in one form or another—survived the overwhelming trend toward outsourcing. It’s not breaking news to say that a significant majority of hospitals have outsourced their medical transcription departments to …
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The Modern Transcriptionist: Interviews with Amy and Kelly
5 New Year’s Resolutions if You Work from Home
10 Tips For Landing A Freelance Transcription Job
General Versus Medical Transcription Jobs: What’s the Difference?
Text Expanders for Transcriptionists
Migraine Headaches And Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Linked
The Role and Relevance of Medical Transcription to EMR Adoption
Ambulatory EMR adoption is an endemic national concern. According to a survey conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine only 4% of respondents have a fully functional EMR (with order-entry and clinical-decision support capabilities) and 13% have a basic system. Article …
ICD-10 Delay Doesn’t Address Procedural Hurdles, Critics Say
Update From HealthLeaders Media Dated April 10, 2012 The federal government’s proposed rule that would delay for one year the implementation date for ICD-10 buys providers more time but does nothing to address underlying procedural problems that could wreak havoc when the …
MT vs. Dictation Editor — What’s the Difference?
By Denise M. O’Neal, For The Record Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 5 In more than a decade of transcribing, I had always been called a medical transcriptionist (MT), and I had never known the occupation to be termed anything else—until recently. …
