http://www.ahdi-west.org Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:14:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.ahdi-west.org/misc/in-memoriam-2009-passings/ http://www.ahdi-west.org/getting-to-know-you/getting-to-know-you-karen-fox-acosta/ http://www.ahdi-west.org/advocacy/what-does-advocacy-really-mean/ Presenter: Susan M Lucci, RHIT, CMT, AHDI-F
Time: 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour
Registration Close: March 11, 2010
Cost: FREE
CE Given: N/A

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So much of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Intregrity's (AHDI's) messaging and industry advocacy has been centered on the critical need for this sector to embrace professional credentialing--why it's important not only to the individual, but also to the value proposition we are making to health care about the role our work force does and can continue to play in health data capture. Certainly, to a health care system that places a high value on allied health credentials and scope of practice standards, medical transcription has been an invisible contributor to the landscape. Many fear we will continue to be overlooked and undervalued by our end-users until we are willing and able to "hang" with everyone else in allied health when it comes to training and credentials. AHDI has and will continue to beat that drum to anyone who will listen, especially to MT employers, who are beginning to pull alongside that vision and collaborate with us toward a marketplace requirement for credentials.

But what we don't spend enough time discussing is what happens after the certified medical transcriptionist (CMT) exam--what our ongoing objectives are for recredentialing. Most are probably vaguely aware that a CMT is required to earn continuing education credits (CECs) to maintain that status, but to what end? What is and/or should be the objective of an association recredentialing program? Is it just a matter of collecting credits in random content areas, or is there a goal behind that effort?

Click here to read the full post at advanceweb.com

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]]> http://ahdionline.blogspot.com/2010/03/eight-healthcare-lobbyists-for-every.html AHDI Lounge. Jay is an established presence in the online community with a long history of social networking, blogging, and engagement in forum dialogue. We look forward to Jay’s contributions to the AHDI Lounge and the dialogue and discussions his participation and oversight will generate. If you haven’t visited the Lounge lately, check it out at the link above. Lounge guests are currently discussing the value of credentialing, meaningful use, and advocacy. Drop by any time!

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So where does your organization stand? Are you ready? Your BAs? We can give you a pretty good idea after seeing the results of HCPro’s HIPAA and HITECH survey that was rolled out the past two weeks. It attracted nearly 600 respondents, including mostly HIPAA compliance officers and HIM directors.

For starters, if your organization has done something with its HIPAA compliance program in light of the HITECH, you’re in the majority: 89% said they’ve responded. Read more at HealthLeadersMedia.com.

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