CE Credit: 1 PD
This session will present the preliminary results from the 2011 Survey of Medical Transcriptionists conducted by the presenter and a team from Bentley University. The 2011 Survey is a follow-up to the previous survey of the profession from 2007. The session will discuss changes to the profession based on the survey results, as well as the broader position of the MT in the changing world of healthcare documentation.
Speaker Bios
Dr. David is the project coordinator for the Bentley University project on the creation and use of healthcare documentation. He has studied the work of medical transcription, the uses of speech recognition technology and EHRs, physician attitudes toward medical records, the work of clinical documentation improvement specialists, and others who routinely make use of healthcare documentation.
S. Balaji is an assistant professor in the Information and Process Management department at Bentley University. Balaji holds a PhD in Information Systems from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include IS outsourcing, strategic management of information systems, and healthcare IT. His research has appeared in Communications of the ACM and MIS Quarterly Executive, conference proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, and as teaching cases and book chapters.