Donna and Sue are joined this month by fellow 3M HIS blogger Jill Devrick. Donna: Hi Sue. How was the AHIMA-AHDI summit? Didn’t you give a presentation? Sue: The summit […]

Twenty years ago, I began my journey in healthcare documentation technology. I’ve been traveling up and down memory lane for the past few days, thinking about how the healthcare industry […]

The Joint Commission’s (TJC) current “Quick Safety” article, intended to advise healthcare organizations about safety and quality issues, is about the potential risks when technology and human workflow practices do […]

Back in September, I wrote a blog about documentation errors and listed various types of critical errors that could potentially impact patient safety, care, or treatment. Clearly, errors that can […]

Last week I attended the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. This time around I was honored to serve as president, which meant I had […]

I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts and articles lately about the many challenges the healthcare industry faces around healthcare documentation. Technology, new regulations, and other factors continue to […]

This week we celebrate medical transcriptionists and other healthcare documentation specialists who contribute to or manage the document creation process.  These unsung and often unseen allied health professionals support physicians […]

In my last post, I described how the role of the medical transcriptionist is evolving beyond traditional dictation and transcription to a broader role of “healthcare documentation specialist.”  I have […]