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We continue to be un-surprised by report after report confirming what Allen School Online students already know – that jobs serving the healthcare fields are never in short supply. This is probably one of the main determinants that factored into your decision to pursue an Allen School Online diploma. True to form, the latest report, courtesy of Time.com confirms that indeed, healthcare industry jobs top the list of safest, most recession-proof jobs.
Using your computer to study medical coding online with Allen School is most definitely an exceptional convenience. However, if your machine is running Window 8, you may be among the many users who harbor a particularly strong distaste for the operating system. And you’re not alone. Windows 8 is nearly universally disliked by users due to its arguably failed attempt at incorporating a “mobile style” user interface for the desktop user. The tiled interface and the removal of the very useful Windows “start button” are but two of the most often cited reasons why users dislike Windows 8.
As we’ve written about here before, Microsoft is busy readying its next release of the Windows operating system – Windows 10. And as we’ve noted, Microsoft is planning to give a Windows 10 update away for free to anyone currently using a licensed version of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. If that includes you, here’s what you need to know.
Windows 10 will be made available to all users on July 9. If you allow regular, scheduled Windows updates to be made to your computer, the new software package will be automatically downloaded to your machine. You won’t have to do anything on July 29, as the operating system will automatically update and install itself. Here’s an article from Microsoft which explains how to make sure you get the update and the process it will involve.
If you’re like this blogger – using the reviled Windows 8, this is welcome news and I join you in anticipating how much easier life will be working with the new OS. It can’t come quickly enough! 
This is the very type of loaded question interviewers are increasingly asking of candidates for job positions. Ah, how quaint seem the days when they used to ask you about your 3 top strengths and weaknesses. Listen, the job market is more competitive now than it has ever been. Hiring managers are forced to sort though thousands of candidates before making the best choice and they are getting more pointed in the questions they’re asking. They just don’t have the time to beat around the bush and with so many in line for the available jobs, they feel emboldened to ask more penetrating questions. Questions like: “What bugs you about your co-workers or your current boss?” or “If you’re currently employed, how do you have time to make this interview?” They’re fishing for answers that shed light on how you’d be as an employee. Forbes magazine put out a list of ten new and interesting interview questions used by hiring managers, what they’re really asking and how to best answer them. Click here to read it before you head out to your next job interview. You’ll be glad you did! According to the WHO, “The virus is already present in 21 of the 55 countries and territories across the Americas, the WHO said in a statement Sunday. But it stressed that the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries Zika and also dengue and chikungunya viruses, is already present in all countries in the Americas besides Canada and Chile.”
As for symptoms and diagnosis, the virus in most infected people only means short-lived flu-like symptoms. However, the WHO says it could be transmitted through blood and had been isolated in human semen meaning there may be a sexual transmission pathway for the pathogen. In any case, it is important for nurse assistant trainees to know about the latest threats to public health and safety so that they can be as effective as possible in their roles.
One critical piece of hardware relied upon by those taking medical coding online classes (as well as those in medical coding jobs) is the trusty computer. Whether it is a laptop or a desktop, medical billing and coding as a study topic and a career relies heavily on computers. They’re a fact of life in this field. So its very likely that at some point, you’ll be faced with a dying machine or a machine so old, it is more cost effective to replace than repair/upgrade. When that happens, do you know how to transfer all your files from the old/dying machine to the new one without losing important data or programs?
Donna Tapellini writing for Consumer Reports offers the following five steps to safely and effectively migrating your files/data from an old computer to a new one.
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