For professionals in the field of medical billing and coding, there are a wide range of resources to help you seek employment as well as to keep yourself abreast of changes to the industry. I found the excellent list below on an industry website. (more…)
The Allen School Blog
Exploring Opportunities in the World of Medical Billing and Coding
Archive for August, 2009
Good List of Professional Resources
The Importance of Sleep
I probably don’t need to tell people who juggle online studies, work and family that it is important to make sure you carve out enough time for sleep. We all know how spacey and “out of it” we feel when we miss sleep. Sleep deprivation can be very dangerous. Yet, recently, UCLA professor and sleep expert, Jerome Siegel questioned whether sleep had any correlation to physiological and neural functions. In short, do we really need to sleep? (more…)
Unemployment Spawns New Gold Rush
With a promising future in a growth field, most Allen School students are not fretting over their long term employment prospects. Yet the overall poor state of employment in the US driven by the recession has left many without any solid prospects in the near term. While most will wait it out, some have taken to a different type of “prospecting” – panning for gold in California. (more…)
Another Reason to Love Online Education
Allen School’s brick and mortar campuses are in the greater New York Metro area. So many of us in this community are well aware of the logistics of getting around in one of the world’s most densely populated areas. But if you live in any major city, you know what it is like to drive or take transit during peak hours. It ain’t pretty! (more…)
Obesity and the Latest in Weight Loss
This weekend in Royal Oaks, Michigan, officials from the Guinness Book of World Records were on hand to certify the “world’s largest cupcake”. The 1200+ pound gargantuan snack-cake with bright pink frosting was made using more than 800 eggs, and 200 pounds each of sugar and flour. Is it any wonder that 75% of Americans are either overweight or obese? (more…)
End of Life Planning Doesn’t Kill Granny
Whichever side of the healthcare debate you come down on, everyone can agree that premeditated lying is never cool. I was especially saddened this week to see so many people – broadcasters, politicians and private citizens – repeating the ridiculous claim that the current draft of the healthcare bill in Congress contains provisions that establish “death panels” to decide if elderly folks in poor health should be treated or be euthanized to “save costs”. (more…)
User Feedback
In an effort to generate content that will be useful to the user community, I would like to take this opportunity to open the discussion to all of you who visit this blog. Please take a moment to leave comments for me, your humble moderator, regarding the kind of information you would find the most useful, interesting and engaging. (more…)
Take a Vacation – Doctor’s Orders
Well it is officially the dog days of summer. Scorching heat and in the Northeast, stifling humidity have come to call reminding us all that back-to-school time is just around the corner. Since August is typically a big month for family vacations, I thought it would be timely to reveal a recent study performed by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, showing that there are tangible health benefits to taking a break from your daily grind. (more…)
Electronic Health Records
There is a lot of talk these days in healthcare about Electronic Health Records. Seems we are starting to move in that direction more and more. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), was signed into law on February 17, 2009 by President Obama. (more…)
The March of Progress in Medicine
Students of Allen School Online ought to be very proud of themselves for being at the forefront of change in the medical industry. The next decade will usher in radical changes in the way medical billing and coding are performed. The inevitable transition from paper-based procedures to electronic medical filing will allow you to be one of those who “remembers the old way we used to do this”. (more…)
