PHRs may not be popular, but consumers who use them are more likely to go in for cancer screenings and other important preventive care. From InformationWeek Article July 16, 2012 Patients who use interactive online personal health records (PHRs) are more likely …
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After healthcare ruling come doubts that some states can meet key deadlines
From article in the Washington Post July 2, 2012 With Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama’s landmark health-care law, debate has shifted to whether deadlines key to the law’s goal of expanding coverage to tens of millions of Americans will be …
EHRs Linked to Errors, Harm, AMA Says
From InformationWeek article by Ken Terry A new AMA report on patient safety in ambulatory care finds that safety problems are widespread but that little is known about which problems cause the most harm. Among the uncertainties cited by the AMA researchers …
The Alphabet Soup of Medical Information: EHR, EMR and PHR
Many people have tossed around the terms EHR and EMR as being one and the same and indeed, they are similar. Add to the mix the acronym PHR too; however, they are not the same thing and it’s essential that all service …
HIPAA and HITECH Information Resources
The information below is a re-post from a previous post here on MyGearTools but has been updated. Accurate information is a great asset any time we can find it. Each of these sources has posted new and updated information that is important …
Best MT Resources List
I know that many of you that are regular readers of the My GearTools blog have seen references to various resources that are available for medical transcriptionist in some of the postings here. In an attempt to compile a more complete list …
More HIPAA/HITECH Resources
We’ve had a chance to see now that HIPAA/HITECH really is going to impact the medical transcription business and we know preserving and maintaining confidentiality of Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) is essential to comply with HIPAA. Okay, now where can we …
Reference Book: Technology for the Medical Transcriptionist
This is the first text that satisfies the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity’s (AHDI) model curriculum requirement for technology. As you advance through the text you’ll be introduced to the essential hardware, software and technology that all medical transcriptionists should know and may be required to use on the …
Desk Reference Book, Quick & Easy Medical Terminology, 5th Edition
The title says it all. With this superb fifth edition of Peggy Leonard’s popular resource, you can quickly and easily learn to recognize, interpret, pronounce and use thousands of medical terms correctly.The first five chapters explain how medical terms are created by …