A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry
Something smacks of anti-trust here.
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It’s been a little more than two years since the AHIMA and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) recommended the visual black character (VBC) method be used as the standard unit of measure for medical transcription. Based on research from the Joint Task Force on Standards Development, the announcement came in the form of a white paper that made quite a splash. Defining a VBC as a “character that can be seen with the naked eye,” this methodology does not count carriage returns, spaces, and hidden formatting such as bolding, underlining, text boxes, and printer configurations in the total character count.