MT Exchange

Medical transcription schools and the FTC

JulieW8 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:23 +0000

In the internet marketing world, there's what's known as a flog. A flog is fake weblog. In other words, it looks like a real person writing about real experiences – while promoting a product. In a prior post, Internet Marketers and Medical Transcription, I noted how medical transcription is an attractive target for internet marketers. What [...]

AHDI interactive – kind of

JulieW8 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:31:48 +0000

I have to admit when I saw the title of the latest blog at the AHDI Lounge blog, I was intrigued – so they get points for an interesting title. Is the medical transcription profession doomed? Just reading the title, I thought maybe AHDI was finally going to take off the rosie-colored glasses they wear in public. [...]

Under the microscope: FutureMT

JulieW8 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:05:40 +0000

This all started with a query at MT Chat, which asked (in part): Can anyone tell me if it makes a difference which online program you use? I’ve heard that potential employers look for someone that’s been trained by an AHDI approved program. But when I asked Future MT, a non-approved program, they said that their [...]

Ethical Best Practices

JulieW8 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:00:58 +0000

Just in case you didn’t know, we are in the “healthcare documentation sector.” We still do medical transcription and we’re still called medical transcriptionists, but only because there’s no organized group <ahem> that’s been able to either decide what else to call us and/or make it stick. However, medical transcriptionists everywhere can rejoice, knowing that AHDI [...]

California tax withholding for ICs

JulieW8 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:47:29 +0000

This came up at the Restuvus MT forum. For some reason, people started e-mailing me (maybe because I live in California, maybe because I’m a loudmouth – hard to tell) and I decided to blog it because Restuvus doesn’t archive their conversations and this one should stick around for awhile. I’m not going to go into [...]

MT Desk 2009 Advent Calendar recipe collection

JulieW8 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:03:30 +0000

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MT Services and their independent contractors

JulieW8 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:31:22 +0000

An interesting subject came up on one of the MT boards this week. (I’m not going to give them a link back, because they don’t allow links to other MT sites on their site.) The MT posting the topic said she’s an independent contractor for an MT service company and was recently notified that if the [...]

Medical transcriptionist takes a hit for HIPAA

JulieW8 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:21:18 +0000

I recently received an e-mail from a transcriptionist who described a situation that I think will surprise most medical transcriptionists. It’s an issue I found especially interesting in light of a post by Nae at MT Chat, and the responses it got: Yep, my ESP is working real well today doc … I hadn’t even discussed [...]

Medical transcription spam

JulieW8 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:21:15 +0000

You know you’ve really made the big time when your blog starts getting spammed by spammers who are actually on topic. That means your blog is ranking well for targeted search terms; in my case, that would be medical transcription. I’d like to thank all the spammers out there who have tried everything imaginable to get [...]

Prepare for HITECH changes

JulieW8 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:10:20 +0000

This year is flying by us. Before we know it, it’s going to be 2010 – and that means significant changes in privacy and security measures for service providers to the healthcare industry. One of the more important changes for the medical transcription industry is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) [...]