Medical Transcription Journal

The Journal of the American Association for Medical Transcription (JAAMT) keeps medical transcriptionists up-to-date on the trends and challenges affecting medical transcription. The journal has a frequency of 6 issues per year. The information in JAAMT is vital to all who pursue excellence in medical transcription, from the medical transcription student to the most experienced medical transcriptionist. JAAMT has been dedicated to the advancement of medical transcription through the education and development of medical transcriptionists as medical language professionals for over 20 years.

The JAAMT site is at www.jaamtonline.com

Members of the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) can access content published in JAAMT by completing their login through the association’s website at www.AAMT.org. Non members and non subscribers can choose to set up a one time guest account for purchase of online articles.

What are the benefits to the health information management professionals? The magazine promotes a new clinical medicine theme for each issue. JAAMT also offers a fresh, relevant look at the hottest and latest issues facing the industry today. Some of the industry topics discussed includes,

  • The evolution of EHR (Electronic Health Record)
  • Speech recognition technologies,
  • Billing and compensation,
  • Outsourcing
  • Legislative advocacy

    Health Matrix (formerly JAAMT) is a bimonthly business and technology journal that is packed with content that addresses the evolving trends and emerging technologies of today’s healthcare documentation marketplace as well as legislative advocacy, cutting-edge clinical medicine, and professional practice issues. It also targets all sectors of the transcription market, including service owners, quality assurance professionals, Health IT experts, medical transcriptionists, medical editors, and others with an interest in health data capture and documentation. Subscriptions are at http://www.lww.com/product/?1936-2994

  • The author of this article is Ricci Mathew of Outsource Strategies International (OSI), a US based company that offers services in Medical Coding, Medical Billing, Medical Transcription.

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