CNN: Healtcare Jobs a Bright Spot For Hiring

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CNN recently reported on something that as an Allen School Online student you’re likely already hip to.  If you’ve not yet decided to study medical billing and coding or medical office assistant with Allen School Online, you should read this article from Yahoo! Education entitled, “How to Prepare for a Booming Health Career”.  The money […] Read More

Doing Away With Spam

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So you spend alot of time online and tethered to your online responsibilities like studying medical billing and coding at the Allen School Online.  This means you most definitely understand the time-sucking, productivity-draining effects of spam.  From scores of unwanted emails and text messages every day to unsolicited advertisements on Facebook to the always annoying […] Read More

Study Tips from Top Academic Institution

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Dartmouth University has an exceptional webpage chock full of documents and videos all on the subject of how to optimize your studies.  Everything from the best places to study to how to boost concentration and informational retention is covered.  This page here contains links to numerous articles and vids.  Take tips from one of the […] Read More

SOPA and PIPA – What it All Means

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Well online students of medical billing and coding, did you notice that yesterday, Wikipedia and many other favorite websites were intentionally darkened to protest something called SOPA and PIPA?  Made it rather tough to do any research for your Allen School Online course work I imagine.  It did succeed in raising the awareness about these […] Read More

How to Prolong the Life of Your Technology Products

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Hey online students!   If you’ve elected to study medical billing and coding with Allen School Online, you’re likely a heavy user of technology products.  Laptops, tablets, desktops, wireless smart phones, etc.  We all love how liberating it is to study at your own pace and at your own place, whether that be your bedroom or […] Read More

Friday the 13th – Are You Superstitious?

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Today is the first Friday the 13th of 2012.  This is a date that has come to be synonymous with bad luck.  Are you a superstitious person?  Will you be calling in sick from school or work today to avoid being outside where a stray piano might fall down upon your head?  Life magazine has […] Read More

Take a Break, Improve Your Performance

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Allen School Online Students know what it means to be multi-taskers.  Between studying medical billing and coding, many have full time jobs, households to run and many other challenging commitments to honor every day.  This is why some of us tend to be wound tightly, stressed and feeling like there aren’t enough hours in the […] Read More

Antibiotics in Food – Stopping the Rise of Superbugs

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The Allen School Online blog has long covered the subject of MRSA and other so-called “superbugs” which are virulent strains of pathogens highly resistant to antibiotic treatment.  The long suspected culprit behind the rise of MRSA and other superbugs is the abuse of antibiotics by agri-business which continues to routinely include antibiotics in the feed […] Read More