Then how come MTIA
Posted By: mtgrrl on 2008-05-24
In Reply to: I'm all for writing our congressmen about offshoring medical info, but... - Txs
the Medical Transcription Industry Association has it listed on their website as a bill that could affect their industry?
The bill may be in limbo currently, but action on it could be revised by Senators and Representatives who have it brought to their attention and care about the issue.
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I'm with ya, too. If MTIA causes me to lose
I'll just have all that extra time (while collecting Unemployment, of course) to help you push them over the cliff, too. And the last thing those self-righteous biddies in AHDI/MTIA want is to tick me off. Notta good idea.
AHDI/MTIA
is not nearly as powerful or influential as it likes to think it is. It is a legend in its own mind.
Wave of the future, thank MTIA!
Read MTIA's statement on SM
credentialing.
Position
MTIA believes healthcare documentation workers (i.e., medical transcriptionists,
transcription editors, speech recognition editors, and quality assurance
coordinators) play a critical, interpretive role in accurately and securely capturing
patient care encounter information – information upon which further care decisions
are made, reimbursement processes are determined, and risk management
programs are dependent. For that reason, MTIA strongly supports the
development of a credentialed workforce , whose entry-to-practice and level II
benchmark skills can help transcription service organizations (a) deliver highquality
data capture and documentation to end-user clients and providers, (b)
embrace a service value proposition based on quality, and (c) educate end-user
clients about the need for a skilled, interpretive knowledge worker in the evolving
clinical documentation domain, particularly in the face of growing documentation
complexity and emerging technologies that might suggest human judgment is not
required for accurate health data capture and documentation.
On the MTIA website, those entries are dated July/August 2006! Now, in 2008, if you write your...
congressman in support S. 810 or H.R. 1653, you are supporting an act governing federal grants for scientific research or abstinence teaching in federally funded sex education programs,
And, I'm not saying I don't support those two issues. I'm just saying it has nothing to do with outsourcing. In order of effect real change, we must at least sound like we know what we are talking about. Writing our congressman in support of a two year old bill that no longer exists or writing out congressman about outsourcing and reference bills that have nothing to do with outsourcing, makes us all look like uninformed weiners!
Note post on main board re: MTIA forcing credentialing. Can we say police state?
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