Medical Transcription Industry Association Changes Name after 20 Years to Reflect Expanded Services in the Healthcare Marketplace

Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA), the world's largest association for medical transcription service organizations serving the needs of medical transcription companies, vendors, and health information management professionals, is changing its name to Clinical Documentation Industry Association (CDIA) after 20 years. The official press release states that the change name is a result of an effort to reflect not only the expanded scope of services its members provide to the healthcare industry, but also a more appropriate focus on the health record and its critical role in clinical decision-making and continuity of care.

About CDIA (formerly MTIA)

The Clinical Documentation Industry Association is a not-for-profit trade association serving the needs of medical transcription companies, vendors, and health information management professionals.

The CDIA began as a forum sponsored by the Health Professions Institute in 1989. The forum enabled medical transcription company owners and managers to discuss business issues, technology, and concerns unique to medical transcription business management.

At the time, MTSO members relied on the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT), an excellent source of information for individual transcriptionists, but the business professional needed an organization that represented the interests of medical transcription business owners and services.

For more information, visit www.mtia.com.
For downloading a copy of press release, click MTIA Name Change Announcement Press Release

Quality Assessment and Management Best Practices

The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, American Health Information Management Association and Medical Transcription Industry Association have created a best practices document as a resource for establishing a comprehensive transcription quality assurance program for health care organizations.



Quality Assessment in Healthcare Documentaiton - Best Practices

-July 2010

• Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (ahdi)
• Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA)
• American Health Information Management Association® (AHiMA)

Executive Summary

Technological advances combined with a national agenda for healthcare reform are shifting health information processes and practices from paper-based records to the electronic health record as the dominant medium by 2014. As this transformation takes place, the quality of patient records becomes a critical focus for patient safety and improved patient outcomes. Quality practices of both service providers as well as inhouse medical transcription departments benefit from a more standardized approach to measuring, reporting, and improving the quality of healthcare documentation in order to achieve consistent patient safety outcomes.

Due to the heightened pace of transition to electronic health records, the boards of directors of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) felt it was urgent to reassess the process of quality measurement in healthcare documentation. All three boards agreed to initiate a call to action to deliver on an updated best practices document for quality assessment in healthcare documentation. In April 2009, the directors called upon a workgroup of nationally recognized experts in health information, medical transcription, health information technology, and academia to convene a Quality Summit to develop best practices in quality assessment for healthcare documentation that would impact quality processes for the foreseeable future.

To achieve this task, the group first established the fundamental principles of quality. The workgroup then focused on factors that affect quality as well as strategies to minimize these factors. An in-depth analysis of blanks was also performed, as blanks are a critical factor in providing accurate patient reports. This Best Practices document applies the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) method of continuous quality improvement. The PDCA approach to planning, decision-making, and problem solving is described in detail in Appendix C. The results of this committee’s work is described herein and provides a blueprint for the application of a leading-edge quality program that is compatible with paper-based medical records, hybrid EHR record systems, as well as fully implemented electronic health record systems.

Read More Get a copy of pdf version @ ahdionline.org

Vacancy @ Everest Transcription

Detailed Job Description:

Looking for:

1. QA manager, must be senior medical transcriptionist, excellent working capability, dedicated.
2. Medical Transcriptionists, having 2+ yrs experience, fast, accurate, hard working and consistent.
   

Special Instructions for Applicants:

Apply before August 31, 10

We are continiously looking to add good Medical Transcriptionists (MT/ QA)in our organization. Feel free to contact.

Contact Information:

Everest Transcription (P) Ltd.
Contact: Mr. Angur Pant
Phone: 9841330432
Address: Chabahill
City: Kathmandu
Website: www.everesttranscription.com

Opportunity for home based Medical Transcriptionist in Nepal

If you are interested in home based transcription jobs, do mail me at following address.

transcriptionnepal@gmail.com

Medical transcription industry growing

-DINESH KARKI

KATHMANDU: Medical transcription (MT), a business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, is expanding in Nepal. There are about 25 medical transcription companies in Nepal that directly employ around 400 youths. The industry records annual turnover of around $3 million.

Transcube International Pvt Ltd, the largest medical transcription company in the country with around 100 employees, has recently started the job of coding and billing the medical prescriptions of hospitals and clinics based in US.


“Prior to this, were focused more on transcribing and submitting the medical history of patient which is in audio format,” Suyogya Man Tuladhar, president and CEO of Transcube International, said. He further added many patients in US are claiming insurance from codes prepared by Nepali MT companies. “Our employees transcribe the voice of doctors and health personnel at US based hospitals,” Tuladhar added. Read More...

Transcription Companies [Update]

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Operational E-mail: qnqtranscription@gmail.com
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AcuTech Consultants

3/33 Bista Camp
Pulchowk,Lalitpur,Nepal

Telephone: +977-1-5010720
E-mail: info@acutechnepal.com
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Memorial Day

In transcription industry, we have problems having holidays during our local functions /holidays. But sometimes, we get holidays during some odd days. It is off on Monday as Memorial Day will be observed in United States of America (Last Monday of May). Here is something about Memorial Day.



According to Wikipedia, Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31 in 2010). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. Read More

US governments official web portal says:, Memorial Day is May 31, 2010. Pay tribute to the U.S. men and women who died during military service.