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Should I be concerned about this? - Verizon Business and Medquist

Posted: Mar 08, 2010

Verizon Business has launched the Verizon Medical Data Exchange, a platform to exchange transcribed and digitized physician notes. The vendor developed the platform for the Medical Transcription Service Consortium, established last year by the Medical Transcription Industry Association and the ICSA Labs division of Verizon Business. Two transcription firm members of the consortium, MD-IT and MedQuist, are using the platform. The other vendor members--MxSecure, Sten-Tel and Webmedx--expect to be on by August. The five firms support 350,000 physicians, 2,700 clinics and 2,500 hospitals.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/himss_conference_vendor_news-39913-1.html

I have the funny feeling that MQ wants us to look like bad MT's. Wants the clients and hospitals to get mad at us with this First time Right and leaving blanks in reports. I bet it is MQ way to say to the clients, "Hey, transcription is not good anymore and you need to have the new EPIC and ASR to be done for you."

I think you just nailed that right on the darn head. - agree

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I hope they lose the clients because of their dirty practices and the clients choose someone else to get their Epic from.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the Q burns in a firey H E double hockey stick!

Verizon and Medquist - cmmcd472

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To me, it sounds as if it is a more secure way to send and receive confidental information rather than having it sent over the Internet.

How does this make you look bad?

How does it make us look bad? - By getting rid of us?

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Explains MedQuist Chief Operating Officer Michael Clark, "By integrating MedQuist's DocQment Enterprise PlatformÂ® (DEP) with the new features of Epic's Hyperspace Client, the richness of template-driven text can be combined with the otherwise freestyle nature of dictation in DEP. Physicians can now easily create a more comprehensive clinical note that automatically incorporates both voice input and structured text through a single application.

* Meets physician workflow demands, increasing physician adoption and satisfaction;
* Can reduce the overall cost of documentation by more than 50 percent; and
* In certain instances, can completely eliminate dictation.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medquist-launches-ehr-integration-for-dictations-associated-with-template-based-clinical-documentation-85476462.html

So what else is new - My own hospital/PCP is using EMR - already. And MQ is getting

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rid of us one way or another. For sure.

We cost too much money and they want the money all for themselves.

What little will be left after EMR, the happy little Indians will take.

They accept a pay way lower than ours.

God help us if any of this new technology fails. - mrs.krabs

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We'll all be up sh**s creek if it does.

Yup. - We will.

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But that is the way it is. They say all the satellites that carry all our transmissions for the computers, television, cell phones, etc., will all be failing in a couple of years. If that is true, it will be very interesting to see what happens.

And to think we all lived well without any computers, cell phones and EMR for years and years.

Wonder how we did it?

But then again, I guess one can say paper charts are just as easy to destroy (fire, flood, misplaced/lost) as electronic records.

Years and years ago I worked for a group of physicians. Patient charts were coming up missing quite often. It ended up there were over 100 charts absolutely missing.

Well, due to a tip from one of the office people who saw a certain old doctor leave with a chart under his arm, the head of the practice took a couple of us out to this MDs house. He confronted the MD about the charts, and the MD was very surprised, but then he said he felt ashamed and embarassed. He said yes, he had the charts, he led us to them. On the way we passed his cute little doggy, who was laying real comfy in his little doggy bed, ON TOP OF ABOUT A DOZEN CHARTS! Most were chewed up! Then we kept going -- into this docs BEDROOM! There, he lifted up the mattress AND THERE WERE THE CHARTS! ALL OF THEM! (He was a really old guy and I think he was a bit forgetful at this point.) He said he would take the charts home to dictate, then would forget to bring them back in the next day and just kept going through that vicious cycle.

Well, needless to say there was a new rule posted that no more charts go home with the MDs!

Wouldn't HIPAA have a field day with that situation today?

I really liked that doctor too, he was really kind and sweet.

But there you go. Glad I wasn't the file clerk!

That was too funny! - mrs.krabs

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I was going to say check the doctor's desk/office. I used to work for an orthopedic doctor. He asked me to drop him off at the airport one day after work to catch a flight to a conference. He dictated all 25 or more charts all the way to the airport (about 20 miles)and then he left all of them in the front floorboard of my car for me to return to the office the next day since they weren't supposed to be "removed" from the office. Talk about feeling uncomfortable having all that confidential info in my car. I did lock the car and we did live in a pretty safe neighborhood, but still things happen and they could have been stolen. I do have to say that I was amazed at what he could remember about all of these patients and their office visits. The guy was a risk-taker, played squash (yes, I said squash teehee)loved "trainwrecks" (hard cases) and now works and does research in a teaching hospital.

Now - days . .

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HIPAA guidelines would require that you take the charts in the house with you and wear a monitoring bracelet at all times not to be removed until you get back to the office with those charts!

It is amazing what went on back in the day with all this patient information. I am sure there are many more old stories out there that would make my wig spin.

I read somewhere that in Europe the hospitals don't even keep a chart on a patient -- you have to keep your own chart! Not sure if that is true but that is what I heard.

I guess with EMR the docs will be able to sit home and just pull up the chart electronically -- and family pets will be left out of the equation!! No paper treats for Fido!! Haahaa!

Good one! - mrs.krabs

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In-house arrest you say? I'd be like Madea in Diary of a Mad Black Woman and put it on the dog's leg. Damn, isn't that what MQ is doing now with that freaking electronic punch clock?

Verizon and MQ - BlackBerry Gal

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I think you are right. Any way MQ can find to rip off the MT, they will do. I would like to use my Verizon-enabled BB to send the CEO of MQ a text, the message of which cannot be printed here, so use your imagination!

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