Transition from Manufacturing to Heathcare
With the closure of hundreds of Chrysler and GM dealerships across the country, there are going to be thousands of folks joining the ranks of the unemployed. Read More
Friday Follies
With the “TGIF” spirit at heart, let’s take a look at a place you might want to one day visit to celebrate your graduation from Allen School Online and entry into the medical field. Read More
Best and Worst Cities for Healthcare Jobs
As part of my series on job markets across the country, I will explore these top 5 best cities, one by one, in subsequent posts. Read More
File Under: Easier Said Than Done
Nearly two decades after the beginning of the information revolution, while the technology has grown exponentially there has been little will to apply it to medical record keeping. Read More
Did You Know that Billing and Coding Specialists are Health Information Management professionals?
So who are health information professionals? We are credentialed professionals who manage individual health records as well as aggregate data. Read More
Best Job Markets in the US – Part 1
Since lately I seem to be stumbling across a lot of state-by-state lists of “Top Growth Jobs”, I have decided to write a series of posts detailing the career environments in different areas of the country for people with medical billing and coding expertise. Read More
Ask the Editor
Dear Editor: At the end of the last two interviews I had, the interviewers asked me if I had any questions. Both times I told them that I didn’t and I felt as if they seemed to be expecting more from me, for me to actually ask questions, but I didn’t know what to ask. […] Read More
Grad Steps Up to the Step-Down Unit at Her Job at Methodist Hospital… Discovers That Her Patient Is Allen School Faculty Member’s Father
Before she discovered that her patient in the Medical Surgery step-down unit at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn was the father of one of Allen School’s key faculty members, Sandra Omokaro, who graduated as a Certified Nursing Assistant in 2006, was providing first-rate and gentle care to him. Imagine her surprise when the instructor walked in […] Read More
Changing the Face of Medicine
Advances in microsurgical techniques make life-changing miracles possible The first face transplant was on a nine-year-old girl in India, in 1994, whose hair braids got caught in a farm grass cutting machine that pulled her head in and amputated her scalp and face. Thinking quickly, her parents saved the scalp and face in a plastic […] Read More
Swine Flu and the Need for Medical Professionals
There are many forces driving the ever accelerating need for professionals in all medical fields. Read More