Celebrate You! National Medical Transcriptionist Week

National Medical Transcriptionist Week, May 19-25, 2013, is a special time our nation has dedicated to healthcare documentation specialists, and we plan to celebrate you throughout the month!

You play a critical role in capturing and preserving America's health story. As a guardian of data integrity, you are the clinician's partner to ensure an accurate, secure, and meaningful health record for patient care and safety. Visit our National Medical Transcriptionist Week page to see our tribute to you, the "Guardians of Health Record Integrity," and your dedication to prevent errors, preserve stories, and protect lives.

Visit our National Medical Transcriptionist Week page to find out more about this year's campaign, become an advocate for our profession, and learn how to educate others about the importance of accuracy in their health record. You can also download the poster in a variety of sizes from our website, or purchase the poster and a variety of NMTW items in the AHDI Café Press Store.

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Be the Face of National MT Week!

Save the Date! May 19-25, 2013

During National MT Week, we will be showcasing examples of critical errors AHDI members caught and corrected or flagged. Now is your chance to show the world how you make a difference every day in keeping patients safe.

You could be the face of our National MT Week campaign!

Find out more and submit your entry to be the Face of National MT Week Today!

Celebrate the Week That's All About YOU!

National Medical Transcriptionist Week is nearly upon us! This May 20 - 26 celebrate yourself, your profession, and the importance of what you do.

Working Together for Patient Safety is a theme that resonates throughout our industry. Serving as a second set of eyes on patient health records, healthcare documentation specialists are knowledge workers trained to look for and identify potential errors in the medical record. No matter where errors originated, healthcare documentation specialists, like everyone else involved in patient care, are passionately committed to eliminating preventable threats to patient safety.

Celebrate what you have dedicated your life to during this special week. Visit our National Medical Transcriptionist Week web page to download the 2012 poster and visit our Café Press store—the AHDI Marketplace—to get your National Medical Transcriptionist Week merchandise to commemorate this event.

Celebrate Your Profession in Style

Purchase your National Medical Transcriptionist Week merchandise today at the AHDI Marketplace!

National Hometown Advocacy Week

Advocate the direct relationship between healthcare documentation professionals and patient safety and share our National Hometown Advocacy Week campaign at the local level. Legislative Leaders from states around the nation are coordinating advocacy appointments with federal legislators while the lawmakers are home on congressional recess which just happens to coincide with National MT Week, May 19 to May 26, 2012. Individuals can easily join in the effort. One way is to connect with your local, state or regional chapter of AHDI. They will get you connected with the legislative leader in your state. Another option is to blanket the nation with individual outreach. Download the "Working Together for Patient Safety" posters. Mail or hand-deliver the AHDI National MT Week poster or our National Hometown Advocacy week poster to any number of local offices: hospitals or clinics, private physicians or medical group offices, state or federal legislators or the office of Health and Human Services in your state. Federal House of Representatives local offices can be found in this directory, look for their local offices on their web pages. Federal Senators can be found here. Unsure of your federal legislators? Enter your 9-digit zip code here. Most state legislators and the HHS state offices can be found using state abbreviation.gov (for example: www.ca.gov). Interested? Contact Miranda Chalabi at mchalabi@ahdionline.org or AHDI board member Karen Fox-Acosta at karen.fox@foxtx.net for more information.

Note: High-resolution version of the poster will take time to download due to complexity of artwork and file size.

Celebrate National Medical Transcriptionist Week with Great New Merchandise from Café Press!

Advocate for and show your support of the healthcare documentation industry with brand new merchandise from Café Press! Our beautiful Working Together for Patient Safety artwork by Regina Holliday is featured on posters, buttons, T-shirts, tote bags, coffee mugs, and more! These are great items to take or be worn to visits with your legislators during National Hometown Advocacy Week May 20 – 26.

Visit the AHDI Marketplace today!

Celebrate MT Week with….Other MTs!!

We know that the at-home nature of medical transcription can often be an isolated, disconnected occupation, with few opportunities to interact and network with colleagues who understand and appreciate your professional experience. There is no better way to “associate” with industry colleagues and build professional relationships than through membership in AHDI. AHDI members all around the country are gathering this week at component meetings and state conferences to celebrate the contributory value of MTs in healthcare and to build and sustain the relationships they’ve made through the association. Won’t you join them?

If you want to make a meaningful investment in your career, consider beginning that journey with AHDI membership. Visit our Why Join AHDI? page to learn more about the value of membership and the benefits you’ll receive as a member. If you join during the month of May, you’ll be eligible to receive the May benefit of the month. AHDI members seeking access to our credentialing exams will have their eligibility fee waived for the month of May. If you’re planning to take an exam, membership means saving money on your exam. Don’t miss out!

Hey, MTs! You Make a Difference!

Very few people truly understand the important contribution you make every day to the safety and well-being of the American patient. The accuracy and integrity of America’s healthcare story is entrusted to your capable hands every day. AHDI salutes your attention to detail, critical thinking, and commitment to regulatory compliance as you preserve these health stories.

Show off your valuable contribution to America’s healthcare story by displaying it proudly on a T-shirt, mug, or keychain. Purchase items with our MT Week slogan: America’s healthcare story is in good hands….Mine. Visit the AHDI Marketplace to place an order today!

MT Week…Make it Count!

How can you make an impact in your corner of the world during this MT Week? Get credentialed. Our healthcare delivery system places a high value on the credentials that testify to your skills and training. AHDI is committed to helping all healthcare documentation specialists realize this goal and want to make it easier for working MTs to make this a reality.

Are you a recent graduate or new to the profession? Set your sights on the Registered Medical Transcriptionist Exam. You can find out more by visiting our Credentialing pages and purchasing the RMT Review Guide: A Walk Through the Blue Print to kick off your exam preparation.

Are you an acute care MT with more than 2 years’ experience at the hospital level? Demonstrate to your employer and/or clients that you have been trained and credentialed in advanced clinical medicine, SRT editing, and regulatory compliance by sitting for the Level 2 CMT exam. Find out more by visiting our Credentialing pages or taking advantage of our special MT Week offer on the CMT Exam Guide (located on the AHDI homepage)

MT Week: Celebrating You!

Medical transcriptionists and editors make a high-impact contribution to patient safety and coordinated care every day by making sure patient care encounters are captured and recorded accurately and securely. But with the evolution of electronic health record systems (EHRs), the traditional role of the MT is transitioning to a hybrid one, where advanced clinical knowledge and orientation to emerging technologies will be critical. One of the most rapidly evolving roles for MTs is in the area of speech recognition (SR) editing. Whether or not you are currently asked to apply your knowledge and skills to the editing of SRT draft documents, it’s highly likely you will be at some point in your career.

Celebrate yourself during MT week by treating yourself to some professional pampering. Give your skills an upgrade by learning SRT editing to enhance your professional portfolio. To support you in this effort, AHDI and TRSi are offering an MT Week special for our SRT Editing Course - $100 off the June SRT course if you register during the month of May.

The History of MT Week - Celebrating 26 Years!

Established in 1985 by proclamation from then President Ronald Reagan, National Medical Transcriptionist Week is celebrated annually in the third week of May to bring public and industry-wide attention to the role and contribution of medical transcriptionists in healthcare delivery and clinical documentation. MTs around the country embrace this week as an opportunity to show their support of each other, and MT employers, managers and clients are encouraged to likewise celebrate their medical transcriptionists in the workplace in a unique and special way as well as by participating in national initiatives that promote the profession. This year marks the 26th year medical transcriptionists have had their profession officially recognized.

Find out more about our MT Week campaign to showcase the work of MTs in preserving America’s healthcare story. Check out our MT Week page! Also check the AHDI Home Page each day this week for more MT week information and special deals!

AHDI Marketplace is Now Open - Get Your MT Week Gear!

The AHDI Marketplace is opening its doors to the public. Shop for tees, home office items, and more that have the AHDI logo or the ACE 2011 logo. It’s also the place to get your National MT Week logo items. You can purchase items for your own MT Week celebrations especially the commemorative MT Week T-shirt. Visit the Café Press Store online and check back frequently for new additions!

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Employers – Don’t miss your chance to order MT Week items to honor and acknowledge your awesome MTs, editors, and QA staff!

Happy National MT Week!

The AHDI Board of Directors and Staff wish you a very happy MT Week! We are very proud of the contributions our dynamic workforce makes to healthcare delivery every day. To that end, we are encouraging MTs, educators, students, and employers to promote this year’s theme Why We Matter to Healthcare as part of the celebration of this important week in our industry. To read more about this initiative, take advantage of our MT Week special offers and discounts, or download the MT Week poster, click here.

Deal of the Month--$100 Discount on Course Registration!

As part of our promotion of National Medical Transcriptionist Week and the value of our technology-centric workforce as documentation experts, AHDI and TRSi are offering an unprecedented discount on our Speech Recognition Editing Course. Register in April for the May course or register in May for the June course and receive $100 off the cost of registration. This course is designed to give MTs an orientation to SR technology and practical training and application in editing in a speech recognition setting. This course is preapproved for 10 CECs in each technology (TW) and MT Tools (MTT).



Members: $295 (normally $395)
Nonmembers: $350 (normally $450)

Registration for the May course is now open. Register here.

Why We Matter to Healthcare—MT Week 2010

Promoting the vital and contributory role of healthcare documentation specialists will be the central theme for National Medical Transcriptionist Week this year. As healthcare reform reshapes the delivery of patient services in the United States and regulatory agencies determine the definition of "meaningful use" of EHRs, there has never been a better opportunity for this sector to demonstrate its value in accurately and securely capturing America’s healthcare stories. This means aligning our key messages with healthcare’s goals and demonstrating why we matter to the health data capture process, both now and in the evolving EHR. You can be a part of promoting these key messages to your employers, employees, clients, and colleagues. Download the MT Week poster/flyer and post it in your workplace, share it with your clients, and promote it to regulatory agencies and legislators. If you are an MT or MT employer, consider an investment in this future value proposition by enrolling yourself or your employees in our Speech Recognition Editing Course and receive a special $100 discount off the cost of registration for May and June courses in celebration of MT Week.

"Knowledge is Everything" for National Medical Transcriptionist Week (May 18-24, 2009)

Every year in May, AHDI celebrates the critical role that healthcare documentation specialists play in the accurate capture and documentation of patient encounter information. In light of our shifting economy, the evolution of enabling technologies (like the EHR and SRT), and the workforce challenges our sector is facing, AHDI is urging all stakeholders in our sector to acknowledge the critical role that an interpretive, skilled knowledge worker will continue to play in the electronic future of healthcare delivery. As we celebrate the impact MTs and editors have on the accurate capture of clinical data, AHDI is calling all healthcare documentation workers to prepare for the future of our industry and be ready to step in to the new roles that will emerge in the EHR. It is the interpretive clinical knowledge of this skilled worker that will continue to make the difference between risk and quality in healthcare documentation.

To that end, AHDI is promoting our MT Week theme - Knowledge is Everything - calling all students, postgraduates, and working MTs in the industry to embrace the path of greatest potential relevance in the future:

• Graduate from an ACCP-approved school
• Earn your RMT credential upon graduating from your MT program
• Adopt Benchmark KB to stay on the cutting edge of clinical information
• Become an AHDI member and get engaged in professional development and lifelong learning
• Embrace level II credentialing through the CMT exam

We believe this will be the path to success in the future of healthcare. Are you ready? Find out more at the AHDI MT Week page.