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AHDI and MTIA shouting praises for EHR - Take a look
Posted: Aug 24, 2013
This 2009 article is interesting, in that AHDI and MTIA cheered the advent of EHR that would ultimately put tens of thousands of MTs out of work. The authors of the Book of Style are dumber than a box of rocks. Yet, most MTSOs insist on following their misguided rules full of improper grammar and punctuation. Of course, the AHDI and MTIA directors pad their wallets by selling their product to MTs who can barely afford to buy groceries these days on their salaries as MTs.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20091104/AHDI-and-MTIA-support-healthcare-reform-package.aspx
Good for you for speaking - the truth
[ In Reply To ..]Both organizations as well as BOS are instruments of tyranny. They are of very little benefit to MTs, as you say and only serve themselves and the MTSOs. Who needs em? It is refreshing to hear someone come out and say so.
How dare they! - Take a look
[ In Reply To ..]The more I think about it, the more I shake my head at the audacity of the AHDI and MTIA big shots. They've made it so that the majority of MTSOs insist that all their employees and ICs own a copy of the latest BOS, while at the same time we don't even make enough money to buy the BOS because our accounts are going to the EHR system. I say the book should title should lose the "O" and just be called what it really is: BS.
Yes, I was outraged at the invention of the car. - A complete betrayal of us horseshoers. sm
[ In Reply To ..]How many jobs will be left for us and your preference for what you used to be doing are about as relevant to the big picture as the preference of some for the good old days of Selectrics and White-Out. You're on the wrong side of history.
My best advice is to take a lesson from the fate of those horseshoers who refused to fix cars. No doubt there were some. The lucky ones had wives who could take in laundry or some such thing to keep them from starving.
And today a good horseshoer commands a hefty price! nm - CrispyCritterMT
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Not likely to happen in MT - sm
[ In Reply To ..]There are still some horses left. There isn't going to be any need for hand transcription.
The big companies many of you work for are busy selling front-end VR systems as fast as their techs can install them. They bought up every MTSO they could to corner the VR market. They have been using you to tide them over. Now they are eliminating you, group by group.
I don't think you should count on being in some exalted position after everyone else is gone.
The MTSO we used was so horrible, so expensive, and so late that no one ever wants to hear "MT" again. No one is thinking about scribes, either.
We don't have MTs anymore. Not inhouse, not outsourced. Nada.
Find a new career before it is too late.
AAMT sold out years ago - Out-House MTer
[ In Reply To ..]Many years ago I fought hard with AAMT when they were 1) thinking of a new and way cool bestie name, and 2) charged huge fees for students to go to seminars. I am not a loofer, but really, usually a first date requires a bit of primping and AAMT gave no one interested in the field any makeup or perfuse. AHDI is simply a business step, nothing else. I am glad I 1) did not go pay money to become an MT and 2) chose to wait it out on CMT, etc. credentials. I was totally right all along, and that was over a dozen years ago I started suspectin all this.
Transcription has not been the same - since we lost Vera Pyle
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