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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Medical transcription outsourcing: A blend of technology and human expertise
Medical transcription is a service that has become an essential component of healthcare services. Outsourcing medical transcription enables the process of healthcare to become quicker and efficient by creating records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter in an accurate and timely fashion. Additionally it also curbs costs by making the process economical and secure. Efficient medical transcription can also accelerate the reimbursement process.It is obvious that medical transcription is more than just the process of record creation. What exactly are the components of efficient and effective medical transcription?To be effective and efficient, medical transcription has to have the right blend of technology and human expertise.What role does technology play in the process of medical...
The June HIT Standards Committee meeting
Today's HIT Standards Committee meeting had a rich agenda.The recurring themes were the importance of governance, the interdependency of policy and technology, and the need for objective criteria to measure the appropriateness of standards choices.We began our discussion with a presentation by Doug Fridsma of the ONC Standards and Interoperability Framework which includes use case development, harmonization of core concepts, implementation specifications, reference implementation/pilots, certification, and testing.The intent of the Framework is to ensure standards gaps are filled as necessary to support meaningful use and healthcare reform. The Framework provides the means for managing the standards lifecycle, enabling re-use, and ensuring standards meet functional requirements. Although...
How Can a $101 Million a Year CEO Help "People Get the Care They Need at an Affordable Price?"
In 2005, we entitled a post, "How Can a $124.8 Million a Year CEO Make Health Care More Affordable?" At that time, we contrasted the enormous compensation given to the then CEO of UnitedHealth, Dr William McGuire, with the stated mission of his corporation. Since then, we have traced the travails of UnitedHealth and its leadership. Dr McGuire was eventually accused of receiving backdated stock options (which at one time raised his personal fortune to over $1 billion), and was pushed into retirement. UnitedHealth was accused of a variety of management and ethical lapses. The rather sorry story as of April, 2010 was summarized here.The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune just reported:Stephen Hemsley, a serious and...
"Smoke Detector" - Medical Center Leader (and Former Biotech CEO) Outed as Tobacco Investor
Last year we posted about the seemingly incongruous choice of a wealthy biotechnology executive with little academic or practice experience to run the prestigious University of California - San Francisco, a health oriented university housing a respected medical school. We wondered whether her corporate background would make it difficult to uphold the university's academic and patient care missions.In line with our concerns, Duff Wilson, writing in the New York Times, reported:When Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann was named chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, last summer, she took over a medical institution focused on world health generally and tobacco control in particular. But she forgot one thing in adjusting to her new role: personal stock holdings listed last...
Insel Admits His Statements "May be Viewed as Misleading"
Dr Bernard Carroll has posted several times, most recently here, about shenanigans by "key opinion leaders" in psychiatry whose apparently academic writing and speeches have conveyed messages in line with the marketing agendas of drug and device companies, while they downplayed or concealed their financial ties to these companies. Lately, Dr Carroll noted how the current director of the US National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), Dr Thomas Insel, has defended Dr Charles Nemeroff, whose recent move to the University of Miami let him shed sanctions imposed by Emory University for his failure to disclose conflicts of interest while he was there. Dr Carroll wrote, "For the past three months, Insel has been trying to put some distance between himself and Nemeroff, but the public...
BLOGSCAN - Deceptive Pharmaceutical Marketing
Perhaps in honor of the recently concluded meeting organized by Dr Adriene Fugh-Berman and her colleagues at PharmedOut.org on the pharmaceutical industry and its influence on continuing medical education, three significant posts appeared this week about deceptive pharmaceutical marketing practices. On the Health Business Blog, David Williams analyzed how a former pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive spun the Vioxx case, blaming it all on the public's risk aversion. On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma Blog, Dr Howard Brody summarized two significant articles by Kalman Applbaum on complex psychological campaigns, really versions of disinformation campaigns, used to to market pharmaceuticals. On the Carlat Psychiatry Blog, Dr Daniel Carlat published a letter...
SBI Clerk Exam Pattern
SBI Clerk Exam Pattern SBI clerk Exam Questions Are 200.Time for 200 questions Is 135 Minutes.sbi paper pattern::SBI clerk paper mainly consist of 5 parts.1) Reasoning Ability2) Quantitative Aptitude3) General English4) Computer knowledge/ marketing5) General AwarenessHere, we dont have clerkical Knowledge section.compare to OTHER clerk exams, Sbi exam is giving much time. Sbi clerical paper Topics Marks Qualifing Marks Reasoning Ability 40 16 Quantitative Aptitude 40 16 General English 40 16 Computer knowledge/ marketing 40 16 General Awareness 40 16 In Each topic should gain qualifying marks(at least should get 16 marks in each...
CORPORATION BANK CLERKS RECRUITMENT 2010
CORPORATION BANK RECRUITMENT 2010 FOR 1250 CLERK JOBS ON-LINE APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE CLERICAL CADRE Opening date for On-Line Registration : 01.07.2010 Closing date for On-Line Registration : 31.07.2010(For All Applicants, including those from Far Flung Areas) Call Letters to be downloaded from website of the Bank after : 24.08.2010 Likely date of Examination : 12.09.2010 AGE LIMIT: Not below 18 years and not above 28 years as on 01.06.2010EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION : (As on the Date of Application): Graduate in any discipline with 40% or more marks in aggregate from a recognized university or its equivalent qualification. SC/ST/XS/VH/HI/OH candidates must obtain 35%...
More Food Allergy Protection
Have you heard about Plane Sheets? These seat covers are perfect when flying with a food allergic passenger. Available in disposable or washable forms, Plane Sheets are the brainchild of husband and wife team, Leslie Danelian and Rick Berge. During their long distance courtship, they made themselves a plane seat cover when they realized how unsanitary plane seats can be. They realized that others may be interested in the product and created a company to sell them.I think they're a great idea for movie theater seats and other public chairs where food residue may accumulate, causing the risk of a food allergy reaction.Check out the great patterns and colors and pick up a few for the special food allergic person in your life. Hmmm...maybe a few child-friendly patterns may be in order for our...
Names of Angles
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Medical transcription: Outsource the right way!
Medical transcription is an important contributor to the smooth running of a healthcare facility. It is important for medical transcription be accurate, timely, reasonably priced and transmitted through secure channels. Outsourcing medical transcription to the right service provider can make this possible.However while outsourcing such a vital function as medical transcription, care needs to be taken to prepare the groundwork for outsourcing:Preparing the groundwork for outsourcing: Outsourcing a vital part of the healthcare process to a service provider is essentially like taking on a long-term business partner. Thereby it is important that the decision to outsource is based on inputs from every department affected by the decision.What are the factors to be considered before outsourcing medical...
WellPoint: Don't Know Much About Computer Programming; Aetna: Don't Know Much About Mathematics
Big US based health care insurance companies have not been covering themselves in glory in the last week.Aetna's Math ErrorsFirst, there was the case of Aetna's mathematical prowess, e.g., as reported by the Los Angeles Times:A second insurance company in California has killed plans for double-digit rate hikes for individual policyholders because of errors in its filing that would have inflated premiums, state regulators said Thursday.Connecticut-based Aetna Inc. had sought an average 19% increase in rates for its 65,000 individual customers, but pulled back after multiple math errors in its paperwork were found by its own staff and by an independent consultant working for the state.Aetna's decision follows a similar move by Anthem Blue Cross, which canceled a rate increase of as much as 39%...
The Indian Health Service Interoperability Plan
As part of the Greater Boston Beacon Community Grant resubmission, the grant collaborators worked with the DOD/VA and Indian Health Service to ensure we could seamlessly exchange data required for care coordination and population health. Developing the plan required that we understood the interoperability strategy of the DOD/VA and Indian Health Service.Today I'll focus on the Indian Health Service.Here's a strategic overview of the IHS interoperability plan provided by IHS CTO Mike Danielson.The architecture follows the NHIN Exchange approach using NHIN Connect software. Interactions with IHS will be "pulls" and "pushes" using XDS.bIHS hopes to have widescale production use of their interoperability infrastructure by the end of 2011.At the moment, they are watching the NHIN Direct project...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Battles and Wars Outside India
Battles and Wars Outside IndiaBattle of Marathon (490 B.C.)�This battle was fought between the Greeks and Persians in 490 B.C. A small Greek Army defeated much larger Persian force. Battle of Hastings (1066 A.D.)�This war was fought between England and Normans in 1066 A.D. King Harold of England was defeated and England came under the Norman control. �Hundred Years� War (1338-1453)�It was fought between France and England. The war was brought to an end by the sacrifice of Joan of Arc. War between Henry VII and Richard (1455-85)�It was a civil war fought in 1455-85 between Henry VII and Richard (The Duke of York) both claiming the British throne on Henry VI�s death. Richard was defeated in this war. Defeat of Spanish Armada (1588)�The British fleet defeated Spanish Armada. The British...
Medical transcription outsourcing: The benefits of doing it the right way!
Medical transcription is the process of converting the audio records of the patient-healthcare professional encounter into text format. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that patient records are available on time, the cost per line of medical transcription is reduced and the receivables cycle is accelerated.Apart from the above-mentioned benefits, outsourcing medical transcription has far reaching benefits that permeate every level of a healthcare facility.What are the benefits of outsourcing medical transcription to a professional service provider?To understand the benefits of outsourcing medical transcription, it is important to see how medical transcription outsourcing benefits different departments.Management team: By outsourcing medical transcription the management of a healthcare...
CIVILS GENERAL STUDIES REFERENCE BOOKS
S.No. Name Author / Publisher 1 An Introduction to the Constitution of India D.D.Basu 2 Perspectives on Indian Constitution Edited by Subash Kashyap 3 Biology for VIII-X Std NCERT 4 Physics for VIII-X Std NCERT 5 Chemistry for VIII-X Std NCERT 6 Anatomy & Physiology for Nurses Courses Evelyn Pearce 7 Know your body Reader�s Digest 8 An Evolution of Indian Economy I.C.Dhingra(Sultan Chand & Co) 9 Indian Economy Dutt & Sundaram 10 Economic Survey of India Government of India 11 General Principles of World Geography Charles Farro 12 Monsoon Asia Charles Farro 13 Physical Geography of India for VII � XII Std NCERT 14 Any Good School Atlas 15 Ancient India for VII-XII Std NCERT 16 Medieval India for VII-XII Std NCERT 17 Modern India Bipin Chandra 18 History of Modern...
IAS Pre REFERENCE BOOKS
Mathematics S.NoSubjectBookNameAuthorNamePublisher 1 Elements of Computer Programming Elements of...
