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Welcome to Carolinas Regional Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (CRAHDI)

2009 CRAHDI Officers

President - DeLayce Hudak, CMT (dhudak@etransportal.com)

Vice President - Margi Hill, CMT (mhill@precysesolutions.com)

Secretary/Treasurer - Barb Henderson (katiebkh@hotmail.com)

Delegate - Judy Mauldin (jmldn2@charter.net)

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 – to 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 we believe 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 credentialing exam.

Industry experts agree that in the technology-driven documentation future, traditional transcription will give way to a hybrid role of narrative transcription, template and SRT draft editing, accuracy analysis, and data abstracting, with the long-term goal of creating cost-saving efficiency in healthcare delivery. This means the industry will demand fewer documentation professionals to manage the same workload, and that only the most skilled, interpretive, credentialed documentation professionals will be selected for those roles. Will you be one of them?

Our Objectives and Purpose

1.       To do all things appropriate to the advancement and maintenance of high standards in

the art, science and skills of medical transcription and to encourage, establish and

maintain high standards of medical education and training for the medical

transcriptionist, in order to benefit the public.

2.       To promote general awareness of the field of medical transcription as an allied health

profession.

3.       To gather, publish and distribute information pertinent to growth, development and

improvement in the skills of medical transcription.

4.       To affiliate, cooperate, and work with medical societies and other agencies,

professionals, and associations in the health services field, to improve and maintain

high standards in the field of medical transcription.

5.       To assist the public by developing high standards of education and training for

medical transcriptionists and to implement these standards of education and

training through appropriate channels.

6.       To stimulate and encourage research concerning the knowledge needed to perform

          efficient and accurate medical transcription and the sociologic, environmental and

legal issues related hereto.

7.       To do any and all things that are lawful and not inconsistent with 1. through 6. above.

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