Medical Scribe Training Course
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What Healthcare Scribes Can Offer You.
Are you tired of working a dead end job and feel like you are destined for so much more? Do you love helping people and anything health-related? If so, a career in the medical scribe field may be the right fit for you. In order to get started in this new career, you will have to get the right training. Healthcare Scribes offers a comprehensive online medical scribe training course that can give you the knowledge needed to achieve success in this line of work.Courses Developed By a Team of Experts
When developing our online medical scribe training course, we worked with a team of experts in a variety of fields. Professionals in the content development and web design fields worked feverishly to design courses that are both easy to follow and appealing. There is also a feature that will allow physicians looking for a medical scribe to peruse our users’ resumes. This could help you land a job almost immediately after completing this online medical scribe training course.A Job That Is in Demand
The owner of Healthcare Scribes is a practicing physician and came up with this idea after being unable to find a medical scribe to hire. The founder of Healthcare Scribes soon realized this was a problem many other physicians were facing as well. With this online medical scribe training course, you can enter an in-demand job market. What are you waiting for? Contact us today to find out more about the online medical scribe training course we can offer.This program is protected by copyright law. No part of this program may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without written permission from the author.
Modules
How To Use This Course
Module 1: Medical Scribe Profession
The primary duty of a medical scribe is to accompany the physician into the exam room and free the physician from data entry.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Job Outlook
- Classified Ad Example
- Importance of Medical Records
- Who Uses Medical Records
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
- Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Personal Qualities
- Professional Appearance
- Ethical Behavior
- Responsibilities
- The Healthcare Team
- Physicians
- Physician Extenders
- Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
- Certification
Module 2: Medical Terminology
The road to success in any health career begins with a solid understanding of medical terminology. Medical terminology truly is the language of medicine. As a medical scribe, understanding medical terms, abbreviations and acronyms is crucial to your job. This lesson will introduce you to the elements that make up most medical terms so that you can quickly build a medical vocabulary. Those elements are root words, suffixes and prefixes, which fit together like a puzzle to form the terms. Don’t let any of this overwhelm you, though. Like learning a new language, the more you use medical terminology, the more comfortable you’ll become.
Lessons
Module 3: HIPAA
Lessons
- HIPAA
- Who Owns Health Information?
- Protected Health Information (PHI)
- Consents & Authorizations
- HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Verbal Communications
- Exceptions to the Privacy Rule
- HIPAA Security Rule
- Disclosures in the Public Interest
- Notice of Privacy Practices
- HIPAA Breaches
- Is It a HIPAA Violation?
- HIPAA Review
Module 4: Pharmacology
Lessons
- Pharmacology
- Medical Uses for Drugs
- Drugs by Class
- Drug Names
- Controlled Substances
- Drug Monitoring
- Medication Lists
- Rx vs OTC
- Common Rx and OTC Drugs
- Prescription
- Rx Abbreviations
- Drug Formularies
- Routes of Administration
- The Enteral Route
- The Parenteral Route
- The Topical Route
- Pharmacology Resources
- Pharmacology Review
Module 5: Contents of the Medical Record
Purposes of Medical Records
Lessons
- Purposes of Medical Records
- Types of Medical Records
- Chart Notes
- SOAP
- Subjective Examples
- Example of a Progress Note
- History and Physical (H&P)
- Sections of an H&P
- Common H&P Terminology
- Example #1
- Example #2
- Discharge Summary
- Consultation
- Example of Consultation
- Operative Report
- Pathology Report
- Radiology Report
- Procedure Report
- Sample Procedure Report
- Laboratory Report
- Patient Portal
- Contents of the Medical Record Review (part 1)
- Contents of the Medical Record Review (part 2)
Module 6: Coding and Reimbursement
Lessons
- Medical Coding
- Abstracting
- Code Sets
- Evaluation and Management Codes (E/M)
- Categories of E/M
- Evaluation and Management Codes (Key Components)
- Importance of Good Documentation for Reimbursement
- E/M Coding and EHR
- Coding Fraud and Abuse
- Medical Necessity
- Quality Reporting
- Examples of Quality Measures
- Importance of Good Documentation for Quality Reporting
- Quality Reporting and EHR
- Accurate Diagnosis Documentation
Module 7: Electronic Health Record
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Module 8: Pathophysiology
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Module 9: Procedures
Common lab tests and procedures
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Module 10: Physical Examination
Observation or inspection is the process of obtaining information by observing the patient — their level of consciousness, nutritional status, skin color, posture, gait, asymmetry, mannerisms and personal hygiene.
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Module 11: Misspellings and Grammatical Errors
If there are grammatical errors or misspelled terms in medical records, patients may mistrust the quality of their care. Misspellings can also lead to a patient’s misdiagnosis. Errors in medical records can also increase a doctor’s risk of being involved in a lawsuit.
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Final Exam
Final exam to becoming a medical scribe.