The 3rd edition of "The Book of Style for Medical Transcription" will be released in March 2008 by AHDI (Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity). It has been the standard manual for the medical transcription industry and maintains a superior data capture and documentation quality.
The AHDI site says that this third edition will deliver a streamlined and strategically reorganized flow of critical data, enhanced explanation of standards and practical application, robust examples taken from clinical medicine settings.
The book can be preordered at https://www.ahdionline.org/scriptcontent/bos3epreorder.cfm
What is going to be new in this edition? Well here is the list:
- Reorganization of all content into topical sections and chapter
- A detailed content index at the beginning of each chapter
- A professionally drafted content index at the end of text
- Foreword written by John H. Dirckx, MD
- A "What's New in This Edition" preface that provides a detailed list of all changes in standards of style addressed in the text for ease of reference
- Completely redrafted content sections throughout the text, particularly in Section 2: General standards of Style
- More detailed, comprehensive content explanations and rationale for standards and style recommendations
- More and better style application examples taken from a clinical medicine context
- A complete chapter dedicated to medical record types and formats, including a new section addressing turn-around times (TATs)
- A complete chapter dedicated to medical record privacy, security, and integrity, including all standards and recommendations previously housed in AHDI's HIPAA for MTs paper
- A complete chapter dedicated to amending and modifying the patient record
- Trend Notes included throughout the text that alert the reader to the current and/or potential impact of emerging technologies (EHR/EMR, speech recognition, etc.) on a particular standard of style
- An entire section of chapters addressing trends and drivers in the industry, including:
- Chapter 25-ASTM Standards for Healthcare Document Formats
- Chapter 26-CDA for Common Document Types (CDA4CDT)
- Chapter 27-Standardized Nomenclature for Medicine (SNOMED)
- Chapter 28-Speech Recognition and SR Editing
- Medical specialty chapters with organized standards, including many new classification systems not included in the 2nd edition
- Cross-referencing throughout the text to redirect users to related information and standards Duplication of specific standards, where appropriate, in more than one chapter in anticipation of where users will most likely look for information
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