by Carrie Boatman, CMT, AHDI-F
I’ve been watching a new show on TV called The Sing-Off. It’s about a capella groups and how they make it sound like a whole orchestra with just their voices. It’s been wonderful. I think that is how our association, AHDI-West, is formed as well. There are a lot of voices and the harmonies, the pitches, the bass, the sopranos, and the beat drive it all. This past 2 years has been so much fun. It reminded me again of how exciting it is when you throw out the rules and make it up as you go along. I know that’s frightening for a lot of people, but it fills me with anticipation of what…
Meegan Alexander, CMT ~ Philomath, OR
Karen Breslin, CMT ~ Las Vegas, NV
Christina Foster, CMT ~ Mesa, AZ
Paula Kelley, CMT ~ Windsor, CA
Susan Larsen, CMT ~ Cottonwood Heights, UT
Elisa McElhaney, CMT ~ Modesto, CA
Lisa Parmenter, RMT ~ Peoria, AZ
Catherine Tonn, RMT ~ San Carlos, CA
by Carrie Boatman, CMT, AHDI-F
This phrase took on a whole new meaning when the AHDI-West Board, along with Karen Fox-Acosta, AHDI board partner for AHDI-West and AHDI-WA, attended the AHDI-WA Annual Meeting in Tacoma, WA earlier this month.
What a great day, giving us time to meet and greet old friends and make some new ones. The speakers were nothing short of AWESOME! I especially enjoyed the nurse from Madigan Air Force Base who spoke on Traumatic Brain Injuries. She was full of good information, humor, a love for what she does and a desire to help others understand what is going on in the brain and how amazing the brain is. Lisa Woodley shared her experience with the adoption of an EHR…
The petition letter signing has closed. Our delegation of legislative leaders from across the country are preparing to meet with dozens of legislators on Capitol Hill next week. Your signatures will be distributed with our packets of information. Your voice will be heard.
If you have not done so already, please read this letter.
AHDI/CDIA staff, volunteers, and Dewey Square Group thank you for your support in signing our petition letter!!
United States Senate and House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator OR Representative:
We thank you for considering the critical role the healthcare documentation sector continues to play with the adoption of the Electronic Health Record (EHR). We are constituents from a wide variety of congressional districts across the nation, members of the healthcare documentation community, represented by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and/or the Clinical Documentation Industry Association (CDIA) (formerly known as MTIA).
Regardless of the method used to capture healthcare information, medical transcriptionists serve as an “essential set of …
House of Delegates
4th Quarter
Online Meeting
Wednesday, Nov 10, 2010
3:00-5:00 PM PDT
AHDI HOD Agenda 11-10-2010
By Carrie Boatman, CMT, AHDI-F
Every fall most components begin to plan for the next year, the next meeting, the next Advocacy Day, the next AHDI Conference, the next…..the list is endless. This year is different. We are all patiently waiting (and some of us not so patiently) to hear what the plans will be for changing our association structure and moving to
