Article Manager posted on April 29, 2010 05:55
If you would like to visit Daytona Beach, FL, now through May 1st is be a good time to go there. No, not for drag racing nor any other type of racing. Rather, those dates are reserved for the 21st Annual Conference of the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). At the conference, MTs can learn such great topics as industry best practices, corporate transparency and legal compliance.
MTIA and its partner organization, the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), will announce the completion of their Manual of Ethical Best Practices for the Healthcare Documentation Sector at the conference. They will also use the event as an opportunity to discuss the importance of best practices to the future success of the medical transcription industry and profession.
For anyone interested in speech recognition advances, an evolving method of clinical documentation in the medical transcriptionist field, AHDI will have available a speech recognition adoption guide that will also present operational and fiscal implications for technology adoption.
Other topics of discussion will include the following:
-Heightened privacy and security requirements
-Increased calls for transparency of operations
-Greater reliance on speech recognition technologies
MTIA 2010 Board of Directors Chairperson Eileen Dwyer states, “With the emerging demand from healthcare delivery for increased standardization and greater specificity around exchange of health information, it is time for the healthcare documentation sector to look closely at its compliance practices and at evolving technologies to capture and deliver health information safely and securely. We want to be a resource for business owners and users of our services in developing best practices that reflect high-integrity business practices and promote transparency around key issues that reflect well on the industry as a whole.”
If you're interested in becoming a medical transcriptionist then this could be an opportunity for you to network with industry leaders and learn a little more about the profession before you enroll in a medical transcription course.