The Informed Certified Medical Assistant

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I am launching a new series of blog posts here at the Allen School Blog entitled, The Informed Certified Medical Assistant.  Certified medical assistants are on hand in doctor’s offices and hospitals all across the US and the more they know about prevailing medical and health-related trends, the more effective they’ll be at providing excellent […] Read More

Happy Birthday Air Conditioning, from a Healthcare Training School

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The Allen School is one of New York’s top healthcare training schools.  Allen School headquarters is located not far from another notable NY place, the birthplace of air condition.  During this extended spell of super hot summer weather in the NY metro area, students of medical billing, medical coding, medical office assistant training and other […] Read More

We’re the Number One Medical Billing Blog!!!

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It is with a great sense of accomplishment that I am able to share with you, our readers and students of medical billing, medical coding, medical office assistant (and all other courses of study at Allen School) that our humble blog has been named the Number One medical billing blog by World Wide Learn. World […] Read More

Best Places to Live After Medical Assistant School

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Whether you’re at Allen School to study medical assisting, the certified nursing assistant course or medical billing and coding  online, you’ll graduate with the ability to write your own career ticket in any locale you’d like to live.  The medical field is predicted to produce some of the highest, most consistent numbers of positions over […] Read More

Medical Billing and Coding Training in Summer’s Swelter

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Trying to complete your medical billing and coding training during the height of the summer’s heat and other distractions is as hard.  Its equally hard for people working on other projects from earning a certified nursing assistant degree to focusing on the needs of patients while working in a medical office.  The tendency is to […] Read More

Doctors, Nursing Assistants, Medical Pros Blast Olympic Sponsors

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The Allen School blog frequently covers the topic of unhealthy foods, junk foods and especially egregious examples of such.  Nursing assistants are among the medical professionals who witness, first hand, the negative effects these horrible foods have on the health of their patients.  I bet few of the men and women taking the nursing assistant […] Read More

Happy 4th of July from Allen School Blog

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Whether you’re studying medical billing and coding, taking medical office assistant training or our certified nursing assistant course, you’re taking a great step towards your own personal career independence.  So let’s celebrate independence as we wish America happy birthday.  See you next week! Read More

Online Medical Billing School Warns of Malware Risk

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Whether you’re a student studying medical billing and coding online with the Allen School or a ground school student who uses their computer to help in their studies in other areas like our certified nursing assistant course or medical assistant training, you need to know the following.  The FBI has identified a real, widespread virus […] Read More

Medical Assistant Skills – Multitasking Shouldn’t Be One of Them

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So you would think that as a student pursuing medical assistant certification, one of the most important skills you’d need to develop is multitasking.  After all a medical assistant is going to have to work in a very busy and sometimes unpredictable environment.  So being able to multitask is probably a good idea no?  Well, […] Read More

The Medical Assistant of Tomorrow

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I found this excellent chart courtesy of BoingBoing.net.  Originally featured in an editorial in  the New England Journal of Medicine, the chart demonstrates just how far medicine has come in the last 100 years.  Not only are far fewer people dying per capital of disease, but so many afflictions, diseases and disorders have been cured.  […] Read More