Medical Records Specialist

This 36-hour course examines principles of communication in the workplace including:

• Writing memos, letters and reports
• Grammar, mechanics, and style
• Association of Records Managers and Administrators, Inc. (ARMA) rules of record management

Offers articulated college credit.

This 36-hour course prepares students for a more successful job search.

Skills include:

• Creating or updating resumes, cover and thank-you letters
• Answering difficult interview questions
• How to ask follow-up questions
• Required "soft skills" in todays workplace

Students will master the skills involved with safe, detailed patient documentation. including:

• Importance of safe, detailed patient documentation
• Charting medical history, doctor’s notes, and current medication records
• EHR documentation using EHR software
• Upon course completion, eligible students can sit for the NHA CEHRS (Certified Electronic Health Records) certification.

This six-week hybrid course teaches students to use the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) manual and the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) to find medical codes for any disease, condition, treatment, or surgical procedure.

This course prepares you to work in the medical field including:

• Doctor offices
• Clinics
• Public health facilities
• Hospitals
• Labs
• Nursing homes
• Insurance agencies
• Online agencies

Dates:  See Online Courses
Cost:  $701 (includes textbook and binder supplies)
Format:  Traditional
Location: Online

This 15-week course teaches the correct terms and spelling for:

• All of the body systems
• Major pathological conditions
• Disorders
• Treatments
• Medications
• And more

This course is appropriate for all students of health occupations who will have a need to communicate with physicians, dentists, and other medical professionals.

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Prerequisite:  Intro to Computers

This 36-hour class will provide the healthcare student with the experience of using an electronic health record and practice management system to understand the medical clinic workflow process from scheduling an appointment through payment collections and refunds.  Using actual industry-standard software, the student will do every step in the medical clinic workflow process, including the clinical staff’s use of a point-of-care electronic health record.  Students will be able to accurately identify the patient for scheduling and registration, prepare the patient for the physician, discharge the patient with the proper documentation and aftercare instructions and complete the patient’s medical records and bill for the services and collect the money.

Prerequisite:  Intro to Computers

This 36-hour class gives students experience using an integrated electronic health record and practice management system to understand the medical revenue cycle management process from line item charge review and posting charges to a bill through payment collections and refunds. Students will gain practical experience billing and recording payments for patients with multiple payers, self-pay, Blue Cross, Medicare, Tricare and commercial insurances.  

Lessons will also address other special situations including:

• Employee health patient annual physical
• Drug screens
• Workers’ compensation cases
• Patients with guarantors
• Liability cases  
• Processing returned checks 
• Working with a collection agency
• Writing off bad debts

A Certified Health Record Specialist (CEHRS) obtains and documents patient information. CEHRS can specialize in a variety of areas or one aspect of the electronic health records such as entry-level coders, encoding within a hospital setting, abstractors and/or coding specialists, HIPAA Compliance Officers, and HIM (Health Information Managers).

Obtaining a Certified Health Record Certification from the National Healthcareer Association may include more job opportunities, increased pay scale, and improved subject matter expertise. 

Also referred to as Medical Office Secretary or Medical Office Assistant, a Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) performs routine administrative and clinical tasks to help keep physician offices and clinics running efficiently.

CMAA job tasks may include:

• Reviewing and answering correspondence
• Working with budget expenditures
• Record keeping systems
• Interviewing job applicants
• Maintaining patient charts
• Front desk duties