Electronic health Records Specialist

Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist Expert

455 HOURS / ACCESS LENGTH: 12 MONTHS / DELIVERY: ONLINE, SELF-PACED

Course Overview:

It is so important for students entering the workforce to be well prepared for the challenges found there. For those students hoping for a career in health care, it is imperative that they have an understanding of electronic health records, medical billing and coding and how those records impact patient care and reimbursement.

This course will cover:

• instructional tools needed to facilitate student learning of the electronic health record, billing and coding process
• administrative, clinical, and billing applications
• medical terminology systems
• review body structure and the main systems of the human body
• recognize, pronounce. build and spell words related to the body structure
• real-world situations
• hands-on, practical experience working with the main coding manuals in the field, the ICD-10-CM and the CPT.
• master the legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts
• review patients’ records for timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data
• organize and maintain data for clinical databases and registries
• track patient outcomes for quality assessment
• use classification software to assign clinical codes for insurance reimbursement and data analysis
• electronically record data for collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and reporting
• maintain confidentiality of patients’ records

This course prepares the student to take the following certification exam(s):

• National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Electronic Health Record Specialist (CEHRS)