Healthcare Training School is for Everyone

Lectures and classroom discussions are often chock full of dense, idea-rich content.  Especially in healthcare training schools where medical assistant training and other detailed classes are held.  If you’re like me, you cannot possibly take comprehensive notes quickly enough.  Or if you do, you’ve focused so much mental energy on transcribing, that you’re not actually listening to the point being made by the instructor.  Then the exercise becomes reading your notes at a later time and trying to piece together the broader points being made in the class. Here’s the solution!  The Cogi voice recording app for Android phones – as reviewed by the keen minds at Lifehacker.com – provides the most amazing functionality you’ll find in voice recorders today.  You can use it record the lecture, or if you’re studying medical coding online with Allen School, you can use it to record conference calls, Skype sessions, you name it! I have been using a similar product for years to record business calls, lectures and other public speaking events.  I recently upgraded to the Cogi app (disclosure: I am NOT being paid by nor have I any relation to the producers of Cogi) and couldn’t be more pleased not only with the sound quality of the recording but also with the convenient controls it offers.  Have a look at the Lifehacker review then do yourself a favor and download it.  Best of all, its FREE!

It has often been referred to as “the most important meal of the day”.  Breakfast, or the meal wherein you break the overnight fast you undertake every night while you sleep, is a crucial meal.  Especially for students.  All studies show that having a solid, well balanced meal in the morning provides you with the energy and mental acuity you need to be your best; whether you’re going to work or to school. Whether you’re taking advantage of healthcare training school by studying online or on the physical campus, you’ll need a solid start to your day so that you can get the most out of your study time.  However, it isn’t always convenient to make breakfast.  Grabbing some fast food item is probably a worse option than having  no breaky at all.  So I thought students here might be interested in the following information. Now, I am not a healthcare training school, and neither am I a foodservice training school.  But I did read this neat post on Buzzfeed about 25 easy breakfasts to make – jump-starting your day.  Read the nifty list here and although you may not have some of the ingredients just laying around in your kitchen, I am confident there is at least one or two of these recipes that you could make right now with the items in your fridge and cabinets.

El Copa Mundial – that’s the World Cup for those uninitiated.  First and foremost, let me offer the US World Cup soccer team good luck wishes from all of us here at the Allen School, one of America’s leading medical billing schools.  Good luck Team USA in your game tonight against the formidable team from Ghana. But what, you may be asking, does World Cup soccer have in common with medical billing schools?  Let me tell you. First, people from all over the world get very excited about the quadrennial event bringing together the best and brightest players from each nation to compete for a global prize.  Similarly, people from all walks of life (and even from many countries around the world) take advantage of online medical billing schools like the Allen School to gain the skills necessary to compete for the prize of increased earning power and job stability. Next, like the top athletes on every World Cup team, students of the Allen School Online are no strangers to the hard work and dedication necessary for success, both in soccer and in entering an exciting new career field. Last, those that perform and achieve at the highest levels are rewarded with world class results.  For soccer players that means advertisement endorsement deals and the adulation of throngs of fans in the countries where they live.  For graduates of medical billing schools like the Allen School, this means entry into a growing, stable career field and the admiration and respect of their peers, friends and families. So get ready for kickoff and if you’re just about to enroll at the Allen School online, get ready to kick off an exciting new chapter in your life!

One of the best parts about studying medical billing classes online is the freedom it affords students.  You don’t have to be physically located on any campus.  You don’t have to be tethered to a desktop computer.  If you wanted, you could grab your laptop and head out to the beach, the park or even your stoop and sit in the sunshine while you earned a degree in a growing field.  If you like to study in the sun, or do any sunbathing for that matter, please remember to use lots of sunscreen.  Recent studies indicate that getting even five serious sunburns by age 25 increases your risk of melanoma (skin cancer) by a wide margin.  View the video below for details.  Then, enjoy the wonderful sunny weather.  But keep a bottle of sunscreen handy!

If you haven’t heard, the Federal Communications Commission is debating a policy change favored by the large broadband internet providers like Verizon, Time/Warner and others that would allow the telecom companies to treat different users of the internet differently.  That is, the new policy would allow heavier users to be charged extra.  For those not able to afford to pay for faster service, too bad!  You may have heard this referred to as Net Neutrality.  It matters to you as a person taking online medical billing and coding classes for the following reasons. What is net neutrality?  According to SaveTheInternet.com, “Net Neutrality means an Internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that Internet service providers should provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company cannot decide who you could call and what you say on that call, your ISP should not be concerned with what content you view or post online.”  Read their whole, easy-to-understand synopsis on net neutrality here. Then, visit the FCC website where they’re currently accepting public comment on their horrible propsed new rules.  Geektastic site, Gizmodo.com has a quick step-by-step on how to complete a comment.  Take a stand and protect the internet that you used (or are still using) to get your medical coding certification for future generations.  It matters!