Medical Office Specialist

This Medical Office Specialist Certificate is a short-term program established to prepare you for employment in physician's offices, medical insurance companies and hospital offices. Some of the duties of a Medical Office Specialist include, but are not limited to, preparing patient insurance claims, processing accounts payable and accounts receivable, scheduling appointments, preparing patient files, coordinating the patient filing system, preparing medical correspondence, processing medical records, and scheduling hospital admissions. 

Medical Office Specialists organize and manage health information data. They ensure its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper and electronic systems. A Medical Office Specialist Certificate prepares you to work as a Health Information Technician or a Medical Office Specialist. 

What’s the Job Outlook for Health Information Technicians?

Employment of health information technicians is projected to grow 11 percent from 2018 to 2028, much faster than the average for all occupations. The demand for health services is expected to increase as the population ages. An aging population will need more medical tests, treatments, and procedures. Additional records, coupled with widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) by all types of healthcare providers, could lead to an increased need for Specialists to organize and manage the associated information in all areas of the healthcare industry.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, April 2020, Medical Records and Health Information Technicians, on the Internet at _{http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/medicalrecords-and-health-information-technicians.htm}