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So if demographics aren't important enough for the - MTSO to pay a single penny for.... sm

Posted: Jan 20, 2010

Why are we getting multiple e-mails about spending extra time on them because HIPAA is so important these days?

Exactly my point! - Debbie

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Why should we care about that HIPAA demo crap, quality in the dictation, blanks, etc. when we are paid CRAP wages? GIGO seems to be the rule these days. Or: Crap in and Crap out.

Personally, I laughed when I saw that email.

Did you ever think might just be the company you - work for and not everyone

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getting multiple emails. I donâ��t with my job but I have in the past at another job. It is all in where you work.

I think it has more to do with the increased fines and restrictions - IAMT

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HIPAA will be imposing in February - mostly in rgards to the reports going to the incorrect patient chart if the wrong patient name is entered and the trail that must then follow to the hospital, patients, etc.

I agree if this is on our shoulders as MTs, we need to be reimbursed accordingly.

If you are working for a company that has not sent out emails about this, guessing you soon will. Has nothing to do with the company you work for.

Demographics and the like for my company - Not for everyone

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I note the OP said had been inundated with emails. We have not gotten the first one on this item. Our demographics are extremely easy. The name comes in with each report, never look those up. If there is a person who is a to be admit, we send a note to the hospital with a s/l and they figure it out. We do the same for cc. If the list is not in the dropdown we have, then we do a non name and a s/l again and others find. Ours is so simplified just impossible never to get the information one way or another. It is not a biggie on my particular acct.

Youre lucky. The demographics at my co. are so - ponderous, it seems like lately we - sm

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spend more time each day typing, retyping, looking up, flagging, manually entering, and yada-yada, the demographics than we do actually transcribing medical reports.

Turning us into d@mned "data-entry clerks".

I do consider myself lucky in that respect - Not for everyone

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but I know exactly what you are talking about.
I started working at a huge learning institute in the Atlanta area and there you spent so much time just trying to figure out who was dictating, much less anything else. Had to search through a huge book of names of interns, horrible.
I stayed probably about 2 weeks and quit.

It sounds "HIPAAcritical", to me. LOL! - Zircon

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It's "important" enough to rag on their employees about it, day in and day out, but not to pay them to take the time to research carefully. And of course, the dictators don't think it's hella important, either. Then they get all apoplectic if we don't have the necessary ESP to figure out who, exactly, they want us to send a copy to.

My heart bleeds. (Not!)

LOL! Good one. My thoughts exactly when I read that memo. - Debbie

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Well, actually they were 'bite me!' but then I often think that when I receive a ridiculous memo from mgmt putting everything on my shoulders, the person paid the least in the whole scheme of things. Sorry, it's called REALITY. Yep, that word again!

Now that is priceless. - IAMT

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Oh so true! Things are changing in my co with demos - Fingers

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And it is high time!!!! Our platform is being updated to have all demos populate automatically, but of course IT has not gotten it down yet. The demos are probably the most important part of a transcribed note for goodness sake, and we don't get paid for it??? Crazy. Why these companies, facilities, and dictators have not taken responsibility for it before now is beyond me. The MTs are not mind-readers. I actually had a doc say, "I don't know his LAST NAME, look it up." Are you kidding? Between HIPAA threats and complaining MTs, I think they finally may be coming around (hopefully). I wish I had the money for all the time I have spent doing research on Demos.

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