Allen School Healthcare Training Blog

Time magazine has a controversial article out in their current issue talking about the complexity and inefficiency of the current state of medical billing.  It raises several hot button issues surrounding how healthcare policy is determined in the US.  According to the research they cite, the following statistic jumps off the page, “We’re likely to […] Read More

It takes a special kind of person to be an effective certified nursing assistant.  Being a CNA requires someone with a disposition that is inclined to want to help others.  Certified nursing assistants need to be compassionate, brave, cool-headed in an emergency and more than anything, they need to care about their fellow man. Perhaps […] Read More

Remember the Rust-Oleum slogan (and subsequent Neil Young song), “rust never sleeps”?  Well, medical office assistants can relate to this idea, because like rust, human illness doesn’t ever sleep either.  One thing about the medical industry, there is a never ending stream of customers because people will get sick in a bad economy just the […] Read More

Have you ever heard the story of the robotic certified nursing assistant?  No? Neither have I!  And that’s kind of the point of this post.  You see, the unmistakable trend in labor today is the automation of so many different job functions.  Technology has been a boon to business.  From manufacturing to farming to even […] Read More

Yes, the cell phone has become an invaluable tool for work as much as for play.  Certified medical assistants are as prone as any other career worker to rely on their cell phones for business apps, productivity apps, and other functionalities offered by today’s powerful, hand-held computers.  So perhaps none of us should be surprised […] Read More