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re: "support our industry" post below - meaningful use ?

Posted: Mar 07, 2010

Maybe I am missing something here, and I appreciate anyone who can educate me on this, but from what I understand, the term "meaningful use" pertains to the degree to which health information technology (HIT) is used in a meaningful and correct way with respect to the electronic health record (EHR).

Institutions who achieve the soon-to-be-defined standard would qualify for limited-time incentive payments from Medicare/Medicaid.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the MT - unless, of course, AHDI is lobbying that everyone involved with the EHR become a PAYING member of their organization.

I am suspicious of the purpose of the post below, as it obfuscates what "meaningful use" pertains to, and appears to pretend that MTs are somehow going to benefit by supporting AHDIs desire to have their hand in our pockets.

(Link: http://forum.mtstars.com/203770.html)

I would be suspicious of ANYTHING AHDI does. Have they - ever been honest? NO. Greedy? YES. -NM

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AHDI wants dictation/transcription/SR capabilities to be - included in definition of meaningful use.

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In other words, as I understand the AHDI campaign, they don't want an EHR platform that does not need or provide some interface for dictation to meet the "meaningful use" criterion (if their definition is adopted) to comply with the standard.

AHDI's alliance with MTIA (you can barely tell them apart anymore) makes their motives all the more transparent.

meaningful use - locust55

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If dictation and transcription are totally left out of the definition of "meaningful use" how does that encourage hospitals/companies to keep transcription jobs? They could instead rely more on electronic templates that bypass transcription altogether.

The way I read this is that it brings attention to the value of transcription for completeness and accuracy. I don't want my medical history glossed over by the limited choices a template would offer.

The problem is AHDi supports transcription jobs being offshored. - anon

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They do not fight to keep these transcription jobs in the United States, so why support something that is only going to go to the Indians to make their lives better at our expense? AHDI does not care about transcription staying in America.

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