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ADVANCE For Health Information Professionals Meet our other new blogger, Brett! He's a physical therapist offering ergonomic tips to keep your posture and health in check.

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With all the attention focused on the contentious health care reform debate around the country, one message seems to have gotten lost. That message is the focus on personal responsibility. In other words, while the government can legislate and insurance
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ADVANCE For Health Information Professionals Our blogger community just got bigger! Travel the country with Andrea at "Health Care Avenue."

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I hesitate to mention how long it took me to come up with this title! For nights, I tossed and turned in my hotel bed trying to come up with a catchy, blog-worthy hallmark. I consumed countless sheets of paper, with a myriad of scribbles and mediocre
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Better, stronger, faster is a marathon-training mantra. Last Sunday was the ING NYC marathon. Watching runners of all calibers run 26.2 miles never fails to amaze me. The top finishers have athletic ability that push the limits of the human body. The...(read more)
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November is not only the start of the holiday season, but also the time of year when HIM professionals celebrate Health Information and Technology (HI&T) Week. This is our week to pat ourselves on the back and celebrate the achievements made during...(read more)
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Your friendly neighborhood drug store--OK, more like the corporate colossus that runs it--is under investigation again. CVS Caremark Corp. announced yesterday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the company's business practices, according...(read more)
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ADVANCE For Health Information Professionals What do you think is the top HIM story of 2009? ICD-10? RACs? The job outlook?

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From a press release from MD-IT , one of the charter members of the Medical Transcription Service Consortium, with some interesting tidbits highlighted: The Medical Transcription Service Consortium (MTSC) – formed by ICSA Labs, an independent division...(read more)
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In a move reported by Reuters and other sources, a newly formed industry group called the Medical Transcription Service Consortium has announced plans to create "a new IT platform for the secure exchange of digitized transcriptions of physician-dictated...(read more)
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Time:8:00AM Monday, November 9th
Location:Tampa, FL
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Time:8:00AM Monday, November 9th
Location:Dallas, TX
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ADVANCE For Health Information Professionals We updated our Web site! Read about an MT who invented a hot-selling product and get perspectives on the new head of OCR.

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Interesting read from For The Record magazine featuring Jay Cannon, president and chief information officer of Webmedx; Ethan Cohen, president of SPi’s healthcare division; and Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy at...(read more)
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(Editor's note: The following blog was written by Mark McGraw, an associate editor on staff at ADVANCE .) It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the "Winner: Best Foreign Language...(read more)