Distance Learning
The Inner Office, Ltd.’s comprehensive medical transcription program was approved by the Approval Committee for Certificate Programs (ACCP), a joint committee established by AHIMA and AHDI to approve medical transcription education certificate programs. AHIMA and AHDI acknowledge the ACCP approval committee as the process to identify quality medical transcription education programs that have been evaluated by a peer review process against a minimum set of standards for entry-level medical transcription professionals. This process allows academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and private companies to be acknowledged as offering an AHDI Approved Medical Transcription Certificate Program.
Several factors make AHDI Approval valuable including:
- Identifies for the public specialized programs that meet established medical transcription educational standards.
- Stimulates improvement of educational standards by involving faculty and staff in program evaluation and planning and faculty development opportunities.
- Promotes a better understanding of the goals of professional medical transcription education.
- Provides reasonable assurance that practitioners possess the necessary job skills upon entry into the profession.
Medical transcription is one of a small number of occupations that will continue to grow faster than average. Employment of medical transcriptionists is projected to grow by 11 percent from 2008 to 2018. Demand for medical transcription services will continue to be spurred by a growing and aging population. Older age groups receive proportionally greater numbers of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that require documentation. A high level of demand for transcription services also will be sustained by the continued need for electronic documentation that can be shared easily among providers, third-party payers, regulators, consumers, and health information systems. Growing numbers of medical transcriptionists will be needed to amend patients' records, edit documents from speech recognition systems, and identify discrepancies in medical reports.
Medical coding
A recent survey by the American Hospital Association concluded that about 18% of medical billing and coding positions remain unfilled due to a lack of qualified candidates. Employment of medical records and health information technicians (including coders and billers) is expected to increase by 20 percent, much faster than the average for all occupations throug2018. Employment growth will result from the increase in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be performed. As the population continues to age, the occurrence of health-related problems will increase.
Our programs have the following benefits:
- Convenience
- Flexibility
- Self-paced
- Elimination of travel time and expenses
- Immediate feedback
- Ease of use 24/7
- No geographical limitations
- Knowledgeable, experienced facilitator
- Preparation for a career locally or from any location in the country
- Payment plans available
The online medical transcription program is designed to provide 950 hours of course data. The program spans 40 weeks and is taught in 6 blocks with a 2-week vacation. Knowledge or familiarity of “MOODLE” is a plus. Transcription of documents in various medical specialties such as emergency medicine, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and genitourinary is generated from actual physician dictation. Click here for a forecast of occupations in the health care industry according to the Bureau of Labor statistics: http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos271.htm#addinfo
Admission requirements for the transcription program include:
- High school graduation or equivalent
- Knowledge of Windows Explorer and Microsoft Word
- Typing skills at 40 wpm
- Mastery of English grammar and spelling
- Students must own or have access to a personal computer with Windows 2000 or higher and Microsoft Word (XP preferred), 1 Gb RAM and at least a 1.8 GHz processor
- High speed internet provider on your home computer is recommended
The online medical coding program is designed to provide 950 hours of course data. The program is 40 weeks and is taught in 6 blocks with a 2-week vacation. Coding of documents in various medical specialties such as emergency medicine, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary is generated using the ICD-9-CM and CPT coding manuals.
Admission requirements for the medical coding program include:
- High school graduation or equivalent
- Mastery of English grammar and spelling
- Knowledge of fundamental computer functions
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