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Barb Marques, CMT, AHDI-F
bmarques96@aol.com
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US: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico,
Canada: British Columbia, Yukon
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Posted:
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
Greetings to all those in District 1
Fall is definitely here – snow already for some of you! This is typically a time of component meetings and activities, not the least of which is officer elections. If you are asked by your local, state or regional component to run for an office, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your district director, other leaders or those on the National Leadership Board with questions or concerns you might have. I can assure you that while participating in leadership can be a little intimidating, it is also a growing, worthwhile experience. There exists a whole host of lifelines, mentors, experience and training available to help make that experience worth your time and effort.
On the subject of meetings, I attended the AHDI-Washington meeting in Everett, WA, this past weekend, Oct. 13. A wonderful job was done by AHDI-Wa President Corinna Frenzl, her board and other volunteers in putting together a very nice meeting. By nice I mean relevant content, timely, affordable, well organized and friendly. Out of 30-some attendees, 3 had never been to an AHDI-associated event! I came away with comments and questions to pass on to AHDI Staff and the National Leadership Board on several topics as well as sharing all the new information I could.
On the subject of benefits of AHDI membership, are you aware of the new Online Learning Library that allows Individual Professional, Corporate, and Educational members to view past AHDI education? Visit the AHDI Online Learning Library by logging in to the website and going to Member Center > My Benefits > AHDI Online Learning Library. There are 10 recordings, free to members, on a variety of topics and all approved for CECs in 5 different categories.
Finally, regarding upcoming meetings: Nov 3 is the next date I am aware of for a networking, CEC opportunity in Sacramento. The AHDI-West site will soon have more information.
As District Director, part of my job description is serving as a conduit from you the members and interested parties in District 1 to the NLB and back. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have something you would like to discuss!
Barb
Posted:
Wed, 03 Oct 2012
Our meet-and-greet opportunities are few and far between, for several distinct reasons. Here is one for you to check out:  | There is still time to Register for the AHDI-WA Annual Symposium: PICK A PATH THAT WILL MAKE YOU SHINE October 13, 2012, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Everett Community College 2000 Tower Street, Everett WA DEADLINE TO REGISTER: October 8th Come join us for our AHDI-WA 2012 Annual Symposium, where we will have informative educational sessions and networking opportunities to help you continue to navigate through our changing industry – Pick a path that will make you Shine. Informative educational sessions include: • Scribes – A new path for Medical Language Specialists? • Meaningful Use of the EHR and its Impacts on Healthcare Documentation • Update from AHDI District 1 Director, Barb Marques, CMT • A Medical Topic still to be determined Note: Speakers and topics are subject to change Nearby Hotels: Holiday Inn, 1305 Pine Street, Everett, WA 98201. Phone number 425-339-2000 Best Western, 2800 Pacific Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201. Phone number 425-258-4141 Registration (lunch included): $40 for members, $45 non-members and $30 for students. Please notify us if you have any dietary needs. To Register:, • Online using PayPal visit the AHDI-WA Website. • By mail, please visit the AHDI-WA website and print registration form and mail it along with a check to AHDI-WA Registrar. Please make checks payable to AHDI-WA. Any questions please email Corinna Frenzl at president@ahdi-wa.org. Hope to see you there! |
Posted:
Thu, 21 Jun 2012
Dear Fellow District 1 Members:
It is my honor to have been selected by the National Leadership Board to fill the position of District I Director, the post recently vacated by Jay Vance.
In accordance with our national bylaws, the NLB is required to select someone to fill such vacancies from within the district, from the list of eligible practitioner members. In conversations with District I leaders, my name apparently “came up” and President Sherry Doggett called.
Even as I prepared this year to leave my position on the NLB as Immediate Past President of AHDI, after 6 years on the board, I have been considering what I would like to “do” next, and to what extend and where I would like to be involved in our professional association. I have to say that it feels right to take on the role of DD at this time. I feel I can bring that national perspective experience to our district and be comfortable sharing what our district needs with the national board. But you may recall that I also have a history of local leadership roles in Oregon and Portland when those chapters existed.I look forward to renewing the connections I had in those roles as well as building other connections.
My priorities are simple: to represent you the District I members at the national level and also be available as a resource for you and our district leaders. I will happily pass on information from the National Leadership Board and AHDI for your consumption. But above and beyond that, I think our first priority needs to be communication. I know first hand how tough it is to feel connected with other Healthcare Documentation Specialists when we work from home and seldom see each other, and opportunities for gatherings are few, for many reasons.
Various AHDI communication tools and messages from AHDI-West and AHDI-Washington are out there and available, but are successful only so far as used, read, responded to, engaged, etc. I hope you will view my involvement at this level as an additional choice for information and connectivity, and maybe sometimes just a sounding board. As I get up to speed with where all I need to be posting and “talking,” I hope you’ll join me in a conversation here and there.
I thank the District I leadership for putting my name forward and the NLB for their vote of confidence in appointing me to this role. I thank Jay Vance for the terrific job he did as your elected director and I look forward to serving you now as your district director.
Regards to each of you, Barb Marques, CMT, AHDI-F
Posted:
Fri, 18 May 2012
May 18, 2012
Dear Fellow District 1 Members:
As some of you may know, I have recently been through a patch of ill health, including a week's hospital stay here in Yuma. At this time I still don't have a firm diagnosis, but I'm facing what I suspect will be a long road of ongoing testing and treatment for cardiac and neurological symptoms. As part of my commitment to better health, I've realized I must re-prioritize my lifestyle and seek out a more stress-free routine. With that in mind, I have reluctantly decided to submit my resignation as your District 1 representative on the AHDI National Leadership Board, effective immediately. While I believe we've made some great strides in a positive direction during my time on the NLB, I'm truly sorry that I will not be able to fulfill the two-year commitment I made when you elected me last year. My intention is to continue to stay involved in AHDI in one way or another, and I hope you all will continue to do the same.
Thank you for your support and encouragement during this time of transition in my life. Best wishes to all of you, and thank you for allowing me to represent such a great district!
Jay Vance, CMT, CHP
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On behalf of the National Leadership Board, we wish Jay all the best and a speedy recovery. We thank him for his leadership and volunteer service as AHDI's District 1 Director; he will be greatly missed on the Board. The National Leadership Board will be moving quickly to appoint a District 1 Director for the remainder of the term, which ends August 31, 2013. Visit the AHDI website to view the District map.
Sincerely,
Sherry Doggett
AHDI President
Posted:
Wed, 16 May 2012
Greetings from your National Leadership Board (NLB)! Our meeting on May 10th was held with the following highlights brought to you as another communication outlet to keep you informed of tasks we are working on.
BOARD UPDATES: We are pleased to announce Jill Devrick as the newest member of the national leadership board. Jill currently works as Product Solutions Advisor for 3M, is the chair of the Managers/Supervisors Alliance, and joined the NLB in April 2012 to fulfill the board position and term vacant by Lisa Tunzi’s resignation. We welcome Jill as a director at large. AHDI’s governance and component association policies and procedures were reviewed and the updates went to a motion, and were passed. Working closely with the board, the Bylaws committee submitted recommendations for updates and those were passed as well. A summary of the changes will be posted on the AHDI website and distributed by email to our component officers very soon.
EXTERNSHIP WHITE PAPER PROPOSAL: Betsy Ertel, AHDI-F, chair of AHDI’s Educators Alliance Steering Committee, presented on the proposal for an externship program white paper. She shared the many benefits of publishing and providing an excellent road map for bridging the gap for students graduating from an approved school to becoming a work-ready MT. A motion was made, seconded and passed to proceed with this well-thought out and much needed white paper.
FUTURE ROLES SURVEY: AHDI President Sherry Doggett presented on the findings of this survey, which was conducted in conjunction with Gary David, PhD, of Bentley University. It provides excellent guidance for further analysis of the data gleaned from the survey, and AHDI’s Managers/Supervisors Alliance will work through next steps in evolving the data into potential future roles in healthcare documentation.
ACE UPDATE: There is popular demand to continue on with a well-attended session from last year’s ACE and that is The Great Debate. Topics to include in this year’s debate were discussed and we are looking for additional subject-matter to make this year’s debate another lively exchange. ACE 2013 is confirmed now for the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida. We are inviting our members to help select a theme for this event. We are all very happy to be returning to Florida for our annual convention.
FINANCES: Bonnie Monico provided a treasurer’s report on current outstanding accounts payable along with continued successful reductions to overall debt.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES: Karen Fox-Acosta, CMT, AHDI-F, President-elect, proposed a special one-hour meeting to cover the strategic plan and priorities in order to give it adequate time for review, update and revision. Following the Board’s review of the draft at the special meeting, we will seek input from AHDI member volunteers before the updated plan is finalized.
MEANINGFUL USE STAGE 2: Fox-Acosta updated the NLB that AHDI has supported the Health Story Project comments, which were submitted to ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT).
OFFICER ELECTIONS: The timeline for this year’s NLB officer elections will be during the board meeting at ACE. Letters of intent are to be submitted to Sherry Doggett, AHDI President, by July 30, 2012.
NEXT: The next regularly scheduled NLB meeting is June 14, 2012, and as always, gallery members are welcome to participate.
Jay Vance, CMT, CHP
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Thu, 03 May 2012
Posted:
Fri, 27 Apr 2012
 Member of the Year |
| | | | | Congratulations!! to the AHDI-West 2012 Member of the Year
Sandy Shumaker, CMT, AHDI-F Sandy is the CEO of Shumaker Transcription Service in Glendora, California. She began her career in 1972 and has been a very active participant of AHDI for many years. She has served on many committees, is currently President-Elect for AHDI-West and keeps us "in the black" as our Director of Finance. Sandy has been a strong healthcare documentation advocate, both locally and in Washington, D.C., and she has most recently added "student" to her title and is taking the Medical Informatics certificate course through Santa Monica College. She is a part-time instructor, a mentor, respected colleague, loving grandmother, and friend of many. |
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Posted:
Fri, 27 Apr 2012
Here's a great opportunity to nominate deserving individuals for the 2012 AHDI Integrity Awards. Each year at our Integrity Awards ceremony during our annual convention, AHDI recognizes those who have gone "above and beyond" in our profession, from nominations submitted by AHDI members. Please take a few moments to learn more about each award category, and then submit your nominations for those who deserve recognition.
AHDI Integrity Awards
Jay Vance, CMT, CHP
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Thu, 19 Apr 2012
These are the messages I enjoy writing—delivering good news to our members and supporters. In my last letter to you April 4, I wrote:
Extensive work has been underway to ensure AHDI flourishes in this new environment for our members—our shareholders and stakeholders. We are leaving no stone unturned as we work to strengthen AHDI’s finances and ensure we are delivering relevant and timely benefits, products, and services. Expenses have been trimmed, our product development and member benefit pipeline is being enhanced and expanded, our strategic priorities are being reevaluated and updated, and contracts are being renegotiated. We operate on a shoestring budget; however, that does not stifle progress and innovation.
To that end, we have exciting updates to share regarding AHDI's Annual Convention & Expo (ACE 2012). Our goal has been to make ACE more affordable for our members and we have been renegotiating our agreement with the JW Marriott Indianapolis, which was originally booked in 2008. The hotel has offered us unprecedented discounts and options to make ACE 2012 more affordable for both you and AHDI.
ACE 2012 attendees staying at the JW Marriott Indianapolis will receive these great perks:
- NEW! $25 daily credit per room toward food and beverages purchased at the hotel, including concession stands in the ACE exhibit hall. Our discounted group rate is $175 per night plus tax. The VIP lunches on Friday and Saturday are being replaced with lunch on your own, during which you can use your daily credit toward food purchased within the hotel.
- NEW! Free Internet access in your hotel room for your entire stay (regular rate: $12.95 per day).
- $8 off the daily onsite parking rate (regular rate: $28.00 per day).
- Entry into the raffles previously advertised as part of the ACE VIP Program.
The JW Marriott Indianapolis has also agreed to provide free wireless Internet access in the ACE meeting rooms and exhibit hall (a $4,000 value). So you'll be able to stay connected the entire time. To reduce AHDI's cost to hold ACE and our potential liability of not filling enough hotel rooms, the JW Marriott is lowering our room block commitment, reducing the minimum amount of food/beverages we must purchase, and discounting our costs for food and other services.
Because we have received these concessions from the hotel and modified the food events for the convention, AHDI wants to pass our savings on to you by lowering our registration fees by $75 and extending the early-bird rate until August 6, 2012. If you have already registered for ACE 2012, you will receive a refund for the difference. Our new registration fees for ACE 2012 are:
Student, Associate Student & Post-graduate Members – $225
Individual Professional Members – $285
Associate Members – $395
List Price – $525 The program will kick off Wednesday evening with a welcome reception in the exhibit hall. Educational sessions will be held Thursday – Saturday. There will be close to 40 sessions to choose from and you can view the revised schedule of events online. Please note that the change in schedule also includes moving the awards ceremony to Thursday, August 9, and there will no longer be a banquet on Saturday evening.As part of our renegotiations, the hotel has agreed to setup concession stands for lunch on Thursday and breakfast on Friday in the exhibit hall, where you can use your $25 daily credit received from staying at the JW Marriott. This new format is part of reducing the master account liability for AHDI while giving attendees added flexibility in their food selections.We recognize that you may be able to find a lower hotel rate nearby; however, this hurts AHDI financially if we do not fill our contracted room block. If you would like to find a roommate, there's a group setup on ACE365.org called "Attendee Resources Group."We understand that as you've been reading this, you may have questions. We've started a list of frequently asked questions to help provide a place where you can get quick answers. And, as always, you can contact our staff anytime toll free: 1-800-982-2182 (direct: 1-209-527-9620) or by email: ahdi@ahdionline.org.This will be the event of the year you won't want to miss. We hope you will join us for ACE 2012 in Indianapolis!Sincerely yours,Linda G. Brady, CAEInterim CEO PS: Watch your email inbox for details regarding ACE 2013! We will be in Orlando, FL, where we'll celebrate AHDI's 35th anniversary!
Posted:
Thu, 19 Apr 2012
The AHDI Credentialing Development Team (CDT) is the governing body responsible for policy development and oversight of all AHDI credentialing programs. The CDT operates independently of the National Leadership Board.
In response to the recent rebranding of the medical transcription practitioner to Healthcare Documentation Specialist (HDS), the CDT is exploring new names for the credentials Certified Medical Transcriptionist and Registered Medical Transcriptionist. We are seeking your input on the renaming of the credential.
Jay Vance recently wrote, "One of the driving motivations behind AHDI's move to "rebrand" medical transcriptionists as Healthcare Documentation Specialists is the critical need to remind the broader medical field that our practitioners are indeed an important part of the overall healthcare documentation process." To this end, it is important that our credential names indicate the level of expertise reflected in the attainment of each credential, and in a broader sense, convey the specialized knowledge and expertise required for the accurate capture of each patient's Health Story. In addition, the credential names should encompass traditional and emerging roles, including transcriptionists, quality assurance specialists, speech recognition editors, team leaders, analysts, encoders, abstractors, trainers, and educators.
When evaluating your responses, please consider the following descriptions:
The RMT exam is designed to assess competency in medical transcription by determining if a candidate has the core knowledge and skills needed to practice medical transcription effectively in today's healthcare environment.
The CMT exam is designed to assess competency in medical transcription by determining if a candidate has the core knowledge and skills needed to practice medical transcription effectively in a multispecialty acute-care facility, where variable specialties, document types, and difficulty of dictation necessitate an advanced level of clinical knowledge and interpretive ability.
Tina Wilson
Programs Coordinator
Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI)
Visit us at: www.ahdionline.org
Posted:
Wed, 18 Apr 2012
AHDI-West Spring Symposium Saturday, May 19, 20128 AM PST – 4 PM PSTBetty Ford Center, Rancho Mirage, CA Don’t miss this unique opportunity!The non-profit Betty Ford Center is an Alcohol Addiction and Drug Addiction Treatment hospital located in the luxurious resort community of Rancho Mirage, California. On the expansive 20-acre campus adjacent to the Eisenhower Medical Center, they offer help and hope to individuals and their family members affected by alcoholism and/or addiction to other drugs. Speakers: James W. Golden, MD – The Panoply of Addiction (CM)
Lynnda Garrett, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner – Anxiety, Depression or Life…When will medications make a difference? (CM) Ann Martinez, RN, Director of Nursing - Medically Assessing and Managing Detoxing Patients (CM) Terri Costa, RHIA, CMT with Amol Khade, CSMS, MBA, Director of Technology at Healthline - Integration of Medical Transcription in an EMR (TW)
- Betty Ford Center Electronic Medical Record Demonstration
- Tour, Betty Ford Center
AHDI Industry Update & Member Town Hall Meeting - Karen Fox-Acosta, CMT, AHDI-F, AHDI President-Elect
- Jay Vance, CMT, District 1 Director
- Sandy Shumaker, CMT, AHDI-F, AHDI-West President-Elect
- …and YOU!!
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COST: $30.00 (includes box lunch) Please Note: Betty Ford Center and Eisenhower Medical Center is a non-smoking campus, as well as use of cell phones and electronic devices is prohibited. Terri Costa will have an approved cell phone for use. REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HOTEL INFORMATION Special rates based on availability. Make your reservation TODAY! If you wish to find a roommate, contact us at Events@AHDI-West.org
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012
Dear Colleagues: This message brings spring greetings to you from your National Leadership Board, which last met April 12. This publication is one of the NLB’s opportunities to share with you, the individual member, what work and decisions are made by this board. ACE Updates: Highlights from this meeting were exciting updates to the plans for both the 2012 and 2013 Annual Conventions and Exhibitions (ACE). This year’s event will be in Indianapolis August 8-11, and specific new details and deals will be broadcast to members within the next few days. As well, hotel and precise date negotiations are almost completed for ACE 2013, which will be held in Orlando, Florida (exact dates to be announced soon). Stay tuned to www.ACE365.org for more details and future updates. New Practices/Projects: A discussion was held about the relatively new workflow solution that involves partial dictation/narrative in the EHR. Doggett reported great success at her facility with their healthcare system, with healthcare providers being allowed to dictate and have transcribed certain portions of the records, satisfying both their desire for narrative information capture and the need for using time-saving technologies. The board will look for ways to capture stories around this topic that display the continuing important role healthcare documentation specialists play. The Future Roles Survey is pending board review, and more discussion will be held around future articles on the topic of dictation practices. Finances: In financial matters, Treasurer Bonnie Monico, CMT, AHDI-F, reviewed the year-end 2011 compilation report and presented the NLB with a revised financial budget. The Board approved the revised budget that accommodates the loss of revenue from CDIA for administrative support (that organization recently ceased operations) but further included new revenue streams and adjustments. A full accounting will be provided to members in a future issue of Plexus, as well as on the website and at the annual business meeting at ACE. Interim CEO Linda Brady emphasized that while the organization still has financial challenges, as does almost every organization in this time of financial upheaval, there are many positives to report and AHDI does not anticipate any type of closure either in the short-term or long-term. Doggett commented on the commitment needed by members to continue their participation in AHDI for the success of the profession, practitioners, and students. Board Positions and Officers: President Sherry Doggett has accepted the resignation of Lisa Tunzi, CMT, AHDI-F, as a director-at-large on the board and the board will move as per bylaws direct to fill her term. The board thanks Lisa for her years of service to the association and will look forward to her participation on another level. Since Lisa also served as secretary to the NLB, an election was held and Susan Lucci, RHIT, CHPS, CMT, AHDI-F, was elected to the position for the remainder of the officer term, which extends to September 1, 2012. To Be Continued: Work continues in subgroups of the NLB to - Examine our strategic priorities and align them with financial resources.
- Examine the appropriateness of our involvement in Meaningful Use, Stage 2, comments.
- Review and update where needed governance policies for the NLB; the Bylaws committee will also be performing a review.
Each director is assigned as board liaison to at least one committee, special interest group, alliance, or taskforce. Reports will be expected for inclusion on the May agenda. Next: The NLB meets the second Thursday of each month via webinar. The next meeting will be held May 10. Gallery members are welcome. Contact Miranda Chalabi ( mchalabi@ahdionline.org) to request the webinar link.
Posted:
Fri, 06 Apr 2012
Elisabeth Altieri has written a fabulous article at For The Record magazine entitled, "MTs Have Skills, So Let's Use Them." The premise of the article is that medical transcription is NOT the "ugly stepchild" of health information management (HIM) as some folks outside the field (and maybe some INSIDE) would have us believe. Altieri points out that even though medical transcriptionists were among the first healthcare documentation professionals to make the jump to an electronic environment, nowadays it seems that MTs and the functions they perform are often considered relics of the past.
Here are some excerpts of the article. I hope you'll take a few moments to read it in its entirety.
While medical transcription is a unique skill in the HIM world, it is not as unique as it is currently being characterized. It is still in the family of HIM functions, incorporating many of the same skills of other HIM responsibilities. Unfortunately, as the future of medical transcription becomes increasingly uncertain, there appears to be a greater emphasis on the differences rather than the similarities between transcription and other HIM roles.
This misperception of the medical transcription skill set is a critical issue because it can translate into fewer opportunities for medical transcriptionists (MTs) trying to transition into other health information careers.
Today’s MTs are often accused of being stuck in the past (despite being computerized 20 years before their HIM colleagues), but we nevertheless have legitimate concerns about the quality of legal medical documentation now that it is increasingly reliant on voice recognition and other automated modalities. Oddly enough, MTs—the medical language specialists—are often excluded from discussions about quality documentation even though the issue could be addressed by processes that would better utilize the medical transcription skill set.
And how many former MTs are included in medical informatics departments, dedicated to checking for quality documentation in EHRs?
One of the driving motivations behind AHDI's move to "rebrand" medical transcriptionists as healthcare documentation specialists is the critical need to remind the broader medical field that our practitioners are indeed an important part of the overall healthcare documentation process. We must not allow ourselves to be relegated to the basement, out of sight and out of mind!
Jay Vance, CMT
AHDI Lounge Administrator/Moderator
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Wed, 21 Mar 2012
Dear Colleagues:
I am putting together a team of volunteers for a short-term project to review the recently released MU2 proposed rules from ONC. Our goal is to identify areas in the proposed rules that directly or indirectly affect our profession and then provide a summary of findings to the Advocacy and Alliance steering committee, the AHDI board and ultimately our members through Membership Matters. The outcome of the project will also help generate an open-comment letter template with plans to have our leadership, component leaders, members and colleagues submit to ONC during the open comment period which ends in early May. The project duration is starting now and will probably run through the end of April.
My email is listed below. Please contact me to volunteer and/or inquire about the project.
Karen L. Fox-Acosta, CMT, AHDI-F
AHDI President Elect 2011-2012
karen.fox@foxtx.net
Posted:
Thu, 08 Mar 2012
The deadline for AHDI Integrity Awards nominations is April 30, 2012. Take time to visit the AHDI website and acknowledge the significant contribution of an individual or organization that has made an impact on the healthcare documentation sector over the previous year. The following award categories address the areas of contribution that best align with AHDI’s strategic plan, goals, and objectives as an organization.
- Member of the Year
- Employer of the Year
- Educator of the Year
- Rising Star Award (Student Essay)
- Excellence in Credentialing
- Membership Impact
- Innovation through Technology
- Advocate of the Year
Nominate an individual or company today! Nomination deadline is April 30, 2012. Visit the Integrity Awards web page for complete details and specific nomination forms.
Jay Vance, CMT
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi,district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Thu, 01 Mar 2012
Dear Component Officers,
We’re pleased to announce the dates of the 2012 component officer orientation. This important webinar series will provide you with a strong foundation as you lead your organizations throughout 2012. Whether you’ve been a component leader before or not you will learn of new opportunities that AHDI is making available to you. We will be covering our strategic initiatives and how the chapters and state/regional/web-based associations can get involved and engage members locally. We strongly encourage all components to have the President and at least one other officer attend this session. It will be recorded but it’s just not the same as hearing it live and having an opportunity for Q&A!
This is a two part webinar series. Please attend both presentations; presenters will be covering new topics each day.
Component Orientation Part 1 Date: | Wednesday, March 7, 2012 |
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Pacific / 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Mountain / 6:00 PM – 7: 30 PM Central / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern
Component Orientation Part 2 Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Pacific / 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Mountain / 6:00 PM – 7: 30 PM Central / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/177351489
Posted:
Tue, 28 Feb 2012
Component leaders, check out Cynthia D'Amour's Chapter Leaders Playground, a valuable association leadership resource. Right now you can join for free, which is a $50 savings, and membership entitles you to complimentary webinars and other perks. Webinars scheduled for March include "Make Recruiting Everyone's Job" and "How To Convince Members To Embrace New Ideas."
Well worth your consideration!
Jay Vance, CMT
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Mon, 27 Feb 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) along with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) have announced the criteria for Stage 2 Meaningful Use of electronic medical record systems. One of the most interesting aspects of Stage 2 MU from a healthcare documentation perspective is the requirement that EMRs must give patients access to their electronic health records. According to Erika Drazen, managing partner, emerging practices for CSC Consulting, as quoted in FierceHealthIT, healthcare providers should pay close attention to the patient engagement aspects of Stage 2 Meaningful Use:
"The bottom line is you've got to start connecting with customers. Patient portals are not going to be optional, and you're going to be responsible not only for having portals but for patients using them."
So what does this have to do with us in the healthcare documentation field? In a nutshell, the more patients see of their medical records, the more those patients will become aware of the errors their medical records contain. My hope is that this will cause a groundswell of public demand for a higher level of quality in healthcare documentation. Hopefully that in turn will open up opportunities for us to engage in an honest conversation about the critical role we play in ensuring that level of quality. We need to be ready with hard data to back up our claims that front-end speech recognition and point-and-click EMR systems are inherently error prone. We must be ready to demonstrate that the knowledge and experience we bring to the process are vital, not optional, if accurate healthcare documentation is the goal.
Jay Vance, CMT
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Saw this on Facebook today and had to share!
Jay Vance, CMT
AHDI Lounge Administrator/Moderator
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Mon, 13 Feb 2012
AHDI-West & AHDI PresentCorporate Advantage Program Webinar Series and ACE 2012 Presentations There is no doubt the clinical documentation industry is changing. What does that mean for MTs, Documentation Specialists, MTSOs, industry schools or HIM Departments? Explore the critical ways to climb the mountain of success. The Corporate Advantage Program (CAP) webinar series is designed to meet the needs of current and future business owners to remain relevant and viable in the changing healthcare industry today. The webinar speakers are experts in their field, and will share strategies and best practices covering a range of “mission critical” subjects for every business. We will peel back the layers of the known and venture below the surface to uncover the unknown. Whether it is RFPs, HIPAA 5010, Tax Rules and Strategies, Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Quality Assurance, Workforce Development or Competitive Strategies, this series will teach you how to invest in change and embrace the uncertainty of the future. As part of the Corporate Advantage Program (CAP) series, many of our webinar speakers will also present at ACE 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana, offering workshops geared toward business owners and available with your full registration. There really is a “Corporate Membership” advantage in staying connected to AHDI! All webinars will be: - Recorded – Unable to attend, Pre-register to receive recording link following live broadcast.
- AHDI-approved for 1.5 CECs (Mediolegal, MT Tools, Technology in the Workplace, and Professional Development)
- 90-minute presentation, including Q&A session
- Broadcast time 12 PM PST/3 PM EST
- $15.00 (Pay by credit card or check)
Our first 2 webinars are open for registration! Monday, February 27RFPs: What Matters, Who Looks at Them?Presented by:
Sherry Doggett, Director, Corporate Transcription Department UC Health, Cincinnati, Ohio
Beth Tribelhorn, HIM Manager, Chart Completion & Transcription Departments
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
AHDI-Approved CEC: 1.5 PD
Friday, March 23 Transforming Your MTSO To Compete In Today’s EHR Healthcare EnvironmentPresented by Steven Palmisano, President, Emdat, Inc.
AHDI-Approved CEC: 1.5 PD
Posted:
Fri, 10 Feb 2012
The AHDI National Leadership Board will have three At-Large Director positions open for 2012, with term of office beginning September 1, 2012. Here's your chance to make a difference! Outlined below is the timeline for nominations and elections (dates may be subject to change):
Mid-February - Friday, April 6, 2012: Call for candidates
Monday, April 9, 2012: Candidacy packets DUE
April 9 - April 13, 2012: Candidate interviews and selection process
Week of April 16, 2012: Final ballot announced/campaigning begins
May 2012 (date TBD): Candidate debate webinars
Monday, June 4, 2012: POLLS OPEN
Monday, June 18, 2012: POLLS CLOSE
End of June 2012: New directors announced
For more information on the requirements for National Leadership Board candidates, please visit http://www.ahdionline.org/GetConnected/Leadership/AHDIBoardofDirectors/NationalLeadershipBoardCandidacy/tabid/197/Default.aspx.
Jay Vance, CMT
AHDI Lounge Administrator/Moderator
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Fri, 10 Feb 2012
The AHDI National Leadership Board has made a commitment to keeping our members informed about the issues discussed and decisions made at our meetings. Now there's a handy place where you can download summaries of past NLB meetings:
http://www.ahdionline.org/GetConnected/Leadership/AHDIBoardofDirectors/NationalLeadershipBoardCandidacy/AHDIBoardofDirectorsMeetingHighlights/tabid/296/Default.aspx
This page is only available to AHDI members, so you will be asked for your member ID and password.
I hope you'll take a few moments to look over these summaries to stay up to date on the activities of your elected AHDI representatives.
Jay Vance, CMT
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
I recently ran across the following quote by futurist John Schaar: "The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." This statement caused me to stop and think about people who weren't content with waiting to see what the future would look like, but instead took it upon themselves to actually shape the future. As an unrepentant techie, my mind quickly focused on folks like Steve Jobs of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Bill Gates of Microsoft as examples of individuals whose willingness to challenge the status quo literally changed the future for billions of people. Traveling further back in time, I also think of the likes of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and the Wright brothers, who clearly changed the world forever as the result of their tenacious ingenuity.
Of course, the vast majority of us will likely never reach such heights of achievement, but every one of us has the ability to change our own future if we're willing to make the effort and take the risk. Certainly there will always be factors beyond our control which will exert some degree of influence on our lives. But the people who have made the greatest impact on their own future, not to mention that of others, tend to be those individuals who are simply unwilling to sit passively by and allow their lives to be totally controlled by external circumstances. Stephen Hawking is a man whose physical limitations would seem totally insurmountable to many of us, yet he has made an indelible mark on the world of science and scientific thought. How many other examples could we find of people who have been dealt a losing hand in life, yet have risen above their circumstances to make the world a better place for themselves and others?
"The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating." Even by doing nothing we are shaping our future. Every choice I make today will change the course of my future to one degree or another, even if I don't realize it. The easy option, of course, is the path of least resistance, what the Bible would call "the broad way." There is something seductive in allowing ourselves to fulfill the role of victim, because it makes it easier to let ourselves off the hook for "the road not taken." How tempting it is to blame our situation on what other people have done, or on circumstances beyond our control!
But we don't have to live that way. We can choose not to play the victim. I'll be the first to acknowledge that these are challenging times for those of us in the medical transcription field, and there are plenty of things to complain about if that's what we want to do. But while we bemoan our current situation and fret about what lies ahead, we're missing opportunities to shape both our present and our future for the better. For some of us those opportunities might include changing jobs, or acquiring additional training, or pursuing credentialing in our current field of endeavor. For others it may mean a change of direction into a different profession entirely. The one thing all such opportunities will have in common is the necessity of taking action rather than simply maintaining the status quo. Is change often scary, or inconvenient, or costly? Yes! If you're anything like me, you like things "a certain way" and don't like it much when your familiar routine is jeopardized. But the harsh reality is that as long as we keep doing what we've always done, we will forever get what we've always gotten. The good news is that it's never too late to decide that enough is enough.
What will your future look like, and what will you look like in the future? Choose to answer those questions yourself rather than waiting for someone else to answer them for you.
Jay Vance, CMT
Director, District 1
AHDI National Leadership Board
jay.ahdi.district1@gmail.com
Posted:
Thu, 26 Jan 2012
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Making a Difference! Presented by Troy Hagen, MBA, EMT-P Friday, February 3, 2012 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST Making a difference! That's finally a statement for Emergency Medical Services, not a question, with the release of The National EMS Advisory Council's white paper: "EMS Makes a Difference-Improved Clinical Outcomes and Downstream Healthcare Saving."
This report has been universally praised as a milestone for EMS.
Troy Hagen, lead author, will provide an overview of the findings and the latest medical advancements in EMS, and how the results can be used to promote healthcare activities and involvement in healthcare reform.
Troy Hagen, MBA, EMT-P is the Director of Ada County Paramedics in Boise, Idaho. Troy has been involved in Emergency Medical Services for 23 years. Troy holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and a Master's in Business Administration. He is a frequent lecturer on EMS leadership, management, and finance. He also served as Medical Commissioner and Incident Commander for the 2009 Special Olympic World Winter Games.
Troy is President-Elect for the National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA) and the Finance Committee Chair for the National EMS Advisory Council.
GREAT DEAL! $10.00
Are you unable to attend? No problem! The webinar will be recorded. Pre-register today and receive recording link following live broadcast.
AHDI-Approved CE Credit: 1 CM (Clinical Medicine) CEC Certificates distributed within 48 hours after broadcast.
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