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Printable Call for Abstracts Form for submission by fax

Electronic Call for Abstracts Form for online submission 

We are pleased to invite dynamic industry experts, educators, practitioners, and authors to submit abstracts for general sessions, panels, and workshops for the 2007 AHDI Annual Convention & Expo, which is being held in Reno, Nevada. We invite everyone who wants to ensure the evolution of the medical transcription profession to submit abstracts under any of the applicable themes below, to be reviewed as potential presenters.

About AHDI

The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity is the world’s largest association for medical transcription. The mission of AHDI is to lead the evolution of medical transcription, and represent and advance the profession and its practitioners.

Change is Everything is our convention theme for 2007. We encourage each presenter to consider the critical time of transition the industry finds itself in and the importance of personal and professional change as well as evolution and growth as we move into the electronic future. The only thing that is certain in life is change, and we are all constantly doing so as we learn and evolve in order to secure a vital role for the documentation specialist in modern healthcare. For more information on our program and the meeting location, please visit the Annual Convention & Expo events section of the AHDI website.

Expanding on the overall theme of Change is Everything, each of the three educational session days during this year's convention will have their own sub-theme. Thursday, August 16 will focus on Language and Communication, Friday, August 17 will be aimed at Personal Health and Wellness and Saturday, August 18 will deal specifically with Leadership. During each of these three days there will be three concurrent educational tracks running which are Medical, Industry Trends, and Transcription Practice . Frequent presenters are not discouraged from submitting an abstract, but your topic and material must be new and original for this audience.

Educational Tracks

Medical Track - topics should be cutting edge, new procedures, diagnostics, and treatments in any specialty. Presenters should be clinical practitioners or recognized experts in medicine-related fields.

Industry Trends Track - topics should be directed primarily to supervisors/managers, practitioners, editors, proofreaders, and QA specialists, although not necessarily excluding students or educators. As noted elsewhere, sessions emphasizing knowledge and skills pertinent to the evolving role of medical transcriptionists in the electronic health record would be considered particularly pertinent.

Transcription Practice Track

General Information

Costs
Accepted speakers are responsible for all costs associated with attending the Annual Convention & Expo, including airfare, housing, and registration.

Speaker Benefits
As an AHDI presenter, you get valuable visibility before your colleagues, business associates, and employers or employees, as well as numerous networking opportunities. You will contribute to the professional development of medical transcription managers, supervisors, practitioners, educators, and students while helping to advance best practices in medical transcription practice education.

Criteria for Selection
Criteria for selection will include innovation, relevance, and items of on-the-job, academic, and professional interest from entry-level to advanced. However, greater emphasis will be placed on intermediate to advanced level abstracts. The committee is seeking contributions that provide participants with practical approaches to current issues and problems and forward-looking and insightful information and guidance on the evolving roles of medical transcriptionists.

Submitting an Abstract
Potential speakers may submit their Abstract in one of two ways:

(1. Download the Printable Call for Abstracts Form and fax the completed copy to the number specified within the document           

(2. Complete their Abstract online using the Electronic Call for Abstracts Form.

Notification of Acceptance
Authors will be notified electronically if their abstract has been accepted. Notification of accepted abstracts will include acceptance for general sessions, panels, or workshops, date, time and duration for presentation. Preliminary information is subject to change.

Proposal Guidelines & Requirements

Limit speaker panels submissions to no more than four (4) presenters. Panel members should represent different organizations or areas of practice and present various perspectives.

You may present more than one session proposal; however, the Program Committee may accept only one proposal for presentation.

Finalize presenter participation prior to submitting proposal. The Committee will not consider proposals without completed contact information, and the signature(s) indicating all proposed presenter(s) have agreed to participate in the session.

Include a catchy, interesting title that corresponds with the session description and learning objectives and clearly expresses the goal of the session.

Include a 25- to 50-word description, 3 to 5 specific learning objectives for attendees, and a 250- to 300-word session summary. The learning objectives should correspond to skills attendees will learn from the session and apply to their own work.

Include the estimated time requirement. (Presentations may be 1 or 2 hours in length, including approximately 10 to15 minutes for questions and answers.)

Presenters should not submit presentations that have been given at other AHDI conferences in the past.

Evaluation of Proposals

The Program Committee will review all proposals based on the following criteria:

Call for Abstracts Form–The Committee will not review proposals that do not provide complete presenter contact information, the signature of each presenter, a 25- to 50-word session abstract, 3 to 5 learning objectives, 250- to 300-word session summary, or other required information.

Content–Sessions should address original research or case studies, innovative practices, creative solutions, and the future of medical transcription. Presenters should be sensitive to the potential over-commercialization of products and/or services discussed in the context of their sessions. Presentations that focus only on the commercial aspects of a product or service are not permitted.

Learning objectives–Will be evaluated based on if the learning objectives are clearly stated and achievable for the presenters in the given time frame and if they are valuable for a participant’s career development.

Panels–If the presenters are balanced in addressing different aspects of a topic.

Known presentation skills–If the presenters have already been seen at a previous AHDI or component events, how recently or often, and whether or not the audience rated the presentation highly.