MTIA Launches New Membership Campaign at AHIMA: Vision 2020

GRAPEVINE, Texas, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA), an organization for medical transcription technology and service companies, hosted a special event to kick off its Vision 2020 campaign at AHIMA‘s 2009 convention. The campaign aims to increase membership and raise funds for marketing, public relations, and advocacy to ensure medical transcription companies remain relevant and stay in step with the evolution of healthcare.

The event was co-hosted by Linda Yaniszewski, the current MTIA board president and president/CEO of ExecuScribe, Inc., headquartered in Rochester, NY, (a MTIA member since 1991), and Peter Preziosi, Ph.D., CAE, the CEO of MTIA.

The quality of a patient’s record and the need for healthcare data integrity are at the heart of MTIA’s drive to increase membership and raise awareness. The organization is also working with an advocacy firm in Washington, DC, to inform lawmakers about the critical role that transcriptionists play in creating an electronic health record (EHR), including significant narrative information that can only be captured in the dialogue between patient and physician.

“Transcription service organizations can be the best resource to help physicians and hospitals successfully integrate new clinical documentation processes and technologies as an important component of the EHR,” says Yaniszewski. “Physician adoption of structured templates for clinical documentation is a well-known stumbling block for many EHRs,” she concludes. “Modern technology is something that MTIA members embrace, and the association’s Vision 2020 campaign is geared towards helping them stay abreast of important changes in the healthcare industry while better serving the future needs of their customers.”

“MTIA is evolving along with the changes in the healthcare sector,” says Preziosi. “In light of the current political initiatives, we have launched the Vision 2020 campaign and engaged an advocacy firm to ensure that the irreplaceable, information accuracy and patient safety functions of transcriptionists is properly understood.”

About MTIA

The not-for-profit Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) is the world’s largest trade association serving medical transcription service companies. Its mission is to create an environment in which medical transcription companies can prosper, grow, and deliver the highest level of healthcare documentation services. For more information, visit www.mtia.com.

    MEDIA CONTACT
    Lea Sims, CMT, AHDI-F
    Director of Communications
    MTIA
    (209) 352-7328
    lsims@mtia.com

SOURCE Medical Transcription Industry Association