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Posted: Mar 9th, 2012 - 8:31 pm In Reply to: Here is a tidbit for you. - MTLC

Thanks for sharing. We're already on our way with that with EPIC and computer assisted coding. Yes, please post to the coding board, there are some inflated egos over there.

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A link with a number of interesting things affecting our industry. - Fellow Traveler (Views: 730, 2012-03-09, 6:01 pm)
- Here is a tidbit for you. - MTLC (Views: 533, 2012-03-09, 7:17 pm)
  - Interesting - MT at heart
    - Not News, Inflated Egos - BeenThere (Views: 374, 2012-03-09, 10:56 pm)
      - Agreed. My company sends - al (Views: 369, 2012-03-10, 9:08 am)
        I've been talking about coding being absolete for - 2 years now, read about, sm, gf (Views: 370, 2012-03-10, 9:41 am)
        Coding obsolete - MT at heart (Views: 363, 2012-03-10, 11:10 am)
        There is one coder here who repeatedly takes potshots at MTs - sm (Views: 369, 2012-03-10, 12:20 pm)
        No one on the coding board said those things - MT2Coder (Views: 302, 2012-03-10, 12:48 pm)
        They have been on the main board. - nm (Views: 267, 2012-03-10, 12:51 pm)
        Yes they did - MT at Heart (Views: 291, 2012-03-10, 2:07 pm)
        I disagree - sm (Views: 262, 2012-03-10, 7:15 pm)
        Hospitals are ALWAYS looking to cut costs & cut - s/m (Views: 286, 2012-03-10, 2:33 pm)
        Re paying high wages to more and more managers - MTLC (Views: 266, 2012-03-10, 3:43 pm)
        It has taken years for MT to disintegrate to the level that it now is - sm (Views: 315, 2012-03-10, 3:30 pm)
  - There is more to coding than that - sm (Views: 269, 2012-03-10, 12:36 pm)
    - Coding is not simple - JW (Views: 220, 2012-03-12, 8:47 am)
  - They tried this and it was a disaster for hospitals who lost money - see message (Views: 290, 2012-03-10, 12:53 pm)
    - I've said it before, and I'll say it again. - sm (Views: 286, 2012-03-10, 1:02 pm)
      - It's the hospitals' infatuation with MONEY that'll - drive them towards automated coding. (Views: 241, 2012-03-10, 2:43 pm)
    - VR was a disaster in the beginning, too, as was - offshoring. It works because - s/m (Views: 269, 2012-03-10, 2:48 pm)
    - I think they're probably talking the next generation here. SM - Fellow Traveler (Views: 244, 2012-03-10, 2:54 pm)
  - How about this: "businesses that do things like help hospitals - keep patients from returning to the hospital with (Views: 255, 2012-03-10, 3:02 pm)
  - Here's another tidbit: Medical errors are the 5th to 8th leading - cause of death in the U.S. What we do (Views: 276, 2012-03-10, 3:10 pm)
    - Medication errors - MT at heart (Views: 267, 2012-03-10, 3:55 pm)
      - Actually... - sm (Views: 264, 2012-03-10, 4:27 pm)
        Epic - MT at heart (Views: 281, 2012-03-10, 5:50 pm)
        The med errors of concern are not typing errors - sm (Views: 239, 2012-03-10, 8:37 pm)
        All errors that harm are of concern. The idea that no - decisions are made based on reading the (Views: 236, 2012-03-11, 10:56 am)
        Please explain - further (Views: 211, 2012-03-11, 11:59 am)
        Errors that harm is the whole point - sm (Views: 213, 2012-03-12, 2:38 am)
      - Med errors as a coding concern - sm (Views: 234, 2012-03-10, 8:16 pm)
    - Med errors have little to do with transcribed reports - sm (Views: 238, 2012-03-10, 7:51 pm)
  - About my tidbit . . . - MTLC (Views: 270, 2012-03-10, 3:36 pm)
    - Feel the same. That's why I'm going into coding, too. - nm (Views: 231, 2012-03-10, 4:12 pm)
      - I agree with your reasoning, MTLC. Coders have to have a - greater understanding, something of (Views: 243, 2012-03-10, 5:56 pm)
      - Multiple things to do with coding cert: CDI, RAC auditing, etc. (sm) - me again (Views: 290, 2012-03-10, 5:57 pm)
      - One more thing - MT at Heart (Views: 237, 2012-03-10, 6:28 pm)
        You do make a valid point, to be sure. - sm (Views: 232, 2012-03-10, 6:42 pm)
        Also, I'm sure market saturation varies regionally (sm) - me again (Views: 263, 2012-03-10, 6:54 pm)
        You are correct and your analogy to op notes is - Accurate (Views: 214, 2012-03-10, 10:00 pm)
        AAPC - Anonymous (Views: 259, 2012-03-11, 9:27 am)
        Don't blame the messenger - sm (Views: 231, 2012-03-11, 11:38 am)
        Depends on where you look - sm (Views: 229, 2012-03-10, 9:44 pm)
        I take your point. I read the AAPC coding forum too. - MTLC (Views: 8539, 2012-03-12, 4:30 pm)
- #1 Least Stressful Job In America - Med Records Tech (Views: 407, 2012-03-10, 5:09 pm)
  - Not Worth Mentioning, Really, because.. - MT (Views: 284, 2012-03-10, 9:48 pm)
    - Yup, that's what the HIM manager told me, too. - MTforNow (Views: 246, 2012-03-10, 11:41 pm)
      - We have no paper records and no records clerks - Not a bad thing (Views: 258, 2012-03-11, 12:55 am)