E-book on Compliance and Business Best Practices in Healthcare Documentation

The Compliance & Operations Best Practices in Healthcare Documentation Organizations: The EBP Manual is now available as an e-book at a new, affordable price of $400 for AHDI eligible members. For a limited time, when you purchase this e-book with online access, you’ll receive a free organizer (binder & tabs) to print a copy for your library!

Compliance and best practices in business operations are priorities for business owners, independent contractors, HIM directors, and all of those who seek services from medical transcription organizations. This comprehensive e-manual will guide you through many of these complex issues and give you downloadable policies and procedures that you can customize for your own business needs (they are Word documents). AHDI and CDIA have worked with expert legal counsel to develop this skillfully written material to save your valuable time and money.

After purchasing the e-manual, the electronic files will be accessible through the "Member Center" and clicking to "My Account" in approximately one hour. Past purchasers of the printed EBP Manual received a complimentary copy of the ebook. Log onto the AHDI website to access it through your account.

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Ethical Best Practices Manual: Resource Guide for Healthcare Documentation Specialists

At long last, the companion guide to the EBP Manual, designed specifically for working medical transcriptionists, editors, and other healthcare documentation specialists is available for purchase. The Resource Guide for Healthcare Documentation Specialists contains all content from the original manual that relates specifically to best practices for our workforce. Practice guidelines related to at-home HIPAA and regulatory compliance, compensation, employee vs. independent contractor status, and provision of services are all included in this handsomely bound resource for the working MT. Sample agreements and contracts, including business associate and noncompete/nonsolicitation agreements are included.

Purchase your copy today!

Price: $70 members / $100 nonmembers

Coming to ACE in Austin? Pick up your copy of this essential new resource at the on-site AHDI store.

Free Webinar: AHDI-MTIA Manual on Ethical Best Practices - Registration Ends Today!

A Program Your Company Cannot Afford to Be Without.

Date: February 11, 2010
Presenter: Gregory Doggett, JD
Time: 1:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour
Registration Close: February 8, 2010
Cost: FREE
CE Given: N/A

During this webinar, AHDI-MTIA staff member Greg Doggett, JD will provide an overview of the associations’ new Manual of Ethical Best Practices for the Healthcare Documentation Sector. Heightened privacy and security concerns, increased calls for transparency of operations, and a growing home-based workforce have prompted AHDI and MTIA to create the manual. The manual will help medical transcription businesses and professionals to adopt policies and procedures for complying with HIPAA privacy and security laws and operating in a manner consistent with ethical best practices related to transcription billing, compensation, and outsourcing. The manual is part of the associations’ ongoing commitment to safeguarding protected health information and upholding the integrity of the profession and industry.

Greg Doggett, JD oversees government and board affairs for MTIA and AHDI. In addition, he serves as staff project manager for the compliance advisory council which was convened to provide input regarding areas that could benefit from the creation of ethical best practices and to assist in content development for the manual. Greg received his law degree, with a concentration in health law, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Manual of Ethical Best Practices for the Healthcare Documentation Sector—Now Available!

A program your company cannot afford to be without.

AHDI and MTIA are excited to announce that the first set of documents for its compliance and best practices program is available for purchase. Included in the documents will be sample HIPAA policies and procedures and a sample business associate agreement, pursuant to the new HIPAA regulations effective February 2010, which will be customizable for your business. This program carries a value that could easily cost a company tens of thousands of dollars. Review full product information and pricing. Manuals will start shipping on January 7, 2010.