Are you a Medical Transcriptionist? Know your Bill of Rights

According to The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), Medical Transcriptionist have following rights:

1. The right to an appropriate job classification and pay level appropriate to one's abilities, limitations, and responsibilities.
2. The right to full disclosure of the basis on which pay is determined.
3. The right to fair pay, including overtime pay, and to benefits, including sick pay, holiday pay, vacation pay, and health insurance.
4. The right to nondiscrimination on any basis, including gender, age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.
5. The right to a safe work environment that promotes prevention, identification, and treatment of work-related injuries and disabilities.
6. The right to communicate with others in order to assist or be assisted, including feedback on performance and inquiries made regarding dictation or transcription.
7. The right to edit dictation as necessary and appropriate to produce a clear, concise, and accurate document, correcting grammar, punctuation, and spelling, drawing attention to inaccuracies, inconsistencies, incomprehensible dictation, and potential risk management concerns.
8. The right to professional resources (print, video, audio, electronic) that facilitate the preparation of accurate and complete documents.
9. The right to environmental resources (space, equipment, furniture, lighting, and supplies) that promote the efficient and effective accomplishment of responsibilities.
10. The right to professional development and continuing education opportunities.
11. The right to professional association membership and participation.
12. The right to participate in the development of, to be informed of, and to adopt professional guidelines and standards for medical transcription.
13. The right to respect and recognition as a professional, as a medical language specialist, and, for those who have earned the designation, as a certified medical transcriptionist (CMT).
14. The right to participate fully as a healthcare professional in the preparation of patient care documentation in order to enhance the quality of that documentation and thereby the quality of patient care.

Medical Transcription as of Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition

Significant Points

* Job opportunities will be good.
* Employers prefer medical transcriptionists who have completed a postsecondary training program.
* Many medical transcriptionists telecommute from home-based offices.
* About 41 percent worked in hospitals, and another 29 percent worked in offices of physicians.

Employment:

Medical transcriptionists held about 98,000 jobs in 2006. About 41 percent worked in hospitals and another 29 percent worked in offices of physicians. Others worked for business support services; medical and diagnostic laboratories; outpatient care centers; and offices of physical, occupational, and speech therapists, and audiologists.

Earnings:

Wage-and-salary medical transcriptionists had median hourly earnings of $14.40 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $12.17 and $17.06. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $10.22, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $20.15. Read more...

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State Abbreviations

State/Possession	Abbreviation
ALABAMA	AL
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NEW YORK	NY
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SOUTH CAROLINA	SC
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TENNESSEE	TN
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UTAH	UT
VERMONT	VT
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VIRGINIA	VA
WASHINGTON	WA
WEST VIRGINIA	WV
WISCONSIN	WI
WYOMING	WY

2009 Federal Holidays

Federal law (5 U.S.C. 6103) establishes the following public holidays for Federal employees. Please note that most Federal employees work on a Monday through Friday schedule. For these employees, when a holiday falls on a nonworkday -- Saturday or Sunday -- the holiday usually is observed on Monday (if the holiday falls on Sunday) or Friday (if the holiday falls on Saturday).

Thursday, January 1------- New Year’s Day
Monday, January 19------- Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 16------ Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 25----------- Memorial Day
Friday, July 3---------------- Independence Day
Monday, September 7------- Labor Day
Monday, October 12--------- Columbus Day
Wednesday, November 11--- Veterans Day
Thursday, November 26---- Thanksgiving Day
Friday, December 25-------- Christmas Day

Recent Job Postings

Post: Medical Transcriptionists and Trainees
Required Numbers: Not Specified

Deadline: 31st October, 8

Imp Note: Candidates must have undergone an intensive medical transcription training program and should have a minimum of 1+ working experience in handling different types of medical reports.


Company: RRS – Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Person: Ms. Dilmaya

RRS - Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
Tripureshwor, Kathmandu
Phone#: 4220071

2008 Federal Holidays

Tuesday, January 1 ----------- New Year’s Day
Monday, January 21 ---------- Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 18 -------- Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 ------------- Memorial Day
Friday, July 4 ----------- ----- Independence Day
Monday, September 1 -------- Labor Day
Monday, October 13 ---------- Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 ------- Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 ------ Thanksgiving Day
Thursday, December 25 ------ Christmas Day

Medical Transcription/Dictation Bloopers

1. She just woke up from bed and complains of leg pain in the left arm (just can't imagine how this can happen)
2. Otherwise, I have recommended rechecking in a few weeks just to make sure that the ear is completely gone.
3. T: Blood pressure 89/42, she states this is common for her after dialysis. They did remove foreign leaders.
   
   D: Blood pressure 89/42, she states this is common for her after dialysis. They did remove 4 liters.
4. At work yesterday, she was lifting a 5-gallon bucket of pain.
5. She complains of a dry cough that hurts when she coughs and also when she takes a deep breath for three days.
6. Take medication as directed and put ice on it.
7. Also, on his right hand he has a left thumb dislocation
8. She lost her cool this week and apparently blew up her husband and daughter.
9. No history of using contact lances.
10. This is a very pleasant child sitting up on the stretcher in bed with his mother who is very playful and a pleasure to play with.