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Welcome to Med-Certification.Com
About Us...
The individuals involved in creating the training and certifying material are well qualified in the health and legal fields. The foundation for the training came through Meditech, Inc., AKA Meditec.com
Business experience: 38 years in the business of medical transcription, coding and billing, medical office administration, and legal matters, with 13 years of teaching on the Internet.
The principals created the Professional Edge Line of medical and legal training programs.
Here’s the story.
2003 - First practical internships
1994 - First on-line medical training courses on the Internet
1992 - First electronic file transmission to medical providers
1990 - First transcription company to use PCs and word software
1989 - Software design for patient information and accounts receivable system for Utah State
1987 - First pilot program for Blue Cross, Medicare electronic claims/payments
1985 - First to set up outsourcing for legal hearing transcription
1980 to date - Regional and National Coding Seminars
1983 - Assisted with AAMT’s emergence, chaired Utah/Idaho Chapters
1979 - Coding/billing contract State of Utah Department of Health
1972 - Partnered with IBM to create strokecounters for typewriters
1969 - First transcription company to market outsourcing
The leaders who built the foundation of the business itself, and ultimately for the training programs, educational standards, and certification processes are experts in their various fields.
Advisory Staff...
Jari Davis - Course author
Brigham Young University, education and bacteriology.
University Medical Center 1958-1972 - computer science, programming, medical coding and chart abstraction and training (for World Health Organization). Set up the standards for data generation and collection for WHO and various NIH federal government grants to various medical departments.
In 1969 incorporated Meditech, Inc., a company that provided outsource services to medical providers in medical transcription, coding and billing, consulting and practice management. Initiated ongoing training programs for Meditech employees. Established the accounts receivable, patient information system for the Utah State Department of Family Health Services, 1989 to 1996. Provided consultant services to many hospitals/clinics in medical transcription, coding training and billing functions. Formalized the training programs in early 1990s for on-line education - competency-based learning.
Feature writer for various medical/legal publications in magazines, journals and textbooks. Major contributor to medical/legal online dictionaries.
Recognition/Awards:
1977 - Named Utah Businesswoman of the year by Utah Business Women's organization.
1983 – Became the first Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT) in Utah. Chaired the Utah Chapter of the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) and served as the President for two years thereafter. Initiated the Idaho and assisted with the Wyoming Chapters of this organization.
1990 - Named "Boss of the Year" by the Utah Businesswomen's Association (nominated by staff and employees of Meditech).
1998-2004 – Guardian ad litem in children’s program through Juvenile Court System, CASA Volunteer. Working with children in various stressful homes, discovering potential programs, which might be of assistance, recommending to the Juvenile Court authorities a course of action specifically designed to assist and benefit the affected children.
Jim P. Hansen - Staff Member, Advisor, Board Member
Utah Business representative, Educational Model specialist and facilitator.
B.S./M.S. Brigham Young University, 3 years graduate study on Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
1985 to Present - Business, Development, Education Consultant.
Consultant-facilitator of an online educational model for International College of Moscow State University, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, a joint venture of University of Colorado at Denver for delivery on an online higher education program.
Developed an online educational model for K-14 integrated educational residential curricula with online instruction focusing on online instruction with classroom, activities and laboratory services support.
Consulted with the Dean of the University of Colorado at Denver to organize and implement a cooperative program with a private for-profit
international university whereby the curriculum was granted full accreditation through staff/faculty contract with the university. The model has been successfully expanded internationally through a similar arrangement with Moscow State University and is being replicated in Beijing. A similar model using real time audiovisual and hypertext communications is presently being formulated which in effect would be a cyberspace university, fully accredited. This plan is currently being processed through Denmark with a broad international student and potential student clientele.
Marvin D. Loflin, Ph.D.
Gary Stanford, M.D.
Gary McCall, Staff Member, Website Development & Technical Support
Certificate: SDMCE – CDSI - Software Process Management – Level 3
Certificate: University of Maryland University College – Process Peer Review
Certificate (2): NetIQ Corporation – WebTrends Analysis Advanced
Trained by Meditech in 1985, assisted with the development of a relational database management system for A/R, which was marketed by Meditech nationally through an IBM partnership program as the Triage® Medical A/R System. Also assisted with transcription, coding, and billing operations within the company, and implemented the first electronic system for delivery of transcribed materials to remote client locations. Also assisted in the initial development of the company’s first website.
In September of 1995, joined Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI) on a GSA contract with the U.S. Army, developed and launched the first public Internet website for Dugway Proving Ground. This led to an administrative position in website management with the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA Web Services Team. Primary developer for OSHA’s website, acted as the task lead and was the primary liaison between all agency offices and the deputy director for website operations.
More than 12 years experience in the development of Internet content, up to and including management of websites containing more than 30,000 documents, OSHA and Meditech, Med-Certification, National Certification Services.
Recognition/Awards:
Excellence Award: ACS – Technical Excellence – November 1998
Excellence Award: ACS – Organizational Excellence – February 2001
Letter of Appreciation: U.S. Army, Joint Contact Point, Dugway – Gary Resnick, Technical Director and Chief Scientist – February 1996
Letter of Appreciation: OSHA Director of Information Technology, Cheryle Greenaugh – April 2000
Letter of Appreciation: OSHA Director of Information Technology, Cheryle Greenaugh – July 2000
Certificate of Recognition – OSHA Customer Service – January 2001
Letter of Appreciation: OSHA Director of Information Technology, Cheryle Greenaugh – April 2001
Letter of Appreciation: U.S. Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao – September 2002
Jason Davis - Instructor, Staff Member
2 years Utah State University, completed 3 years of study (advertising and marketing).
1978 to present. Participated in and learned all about Meditech service functions and was closely involved with on the job training for Meditech employees prior to the more formal training program development and implementation. Instrumental in file management setup for the first on-line training programs, website and courseware design, editing, search engine analysis, and webmaster functions. Established Astrochannels.com, the first international on-line real time deep space live observatory, complete with chat room. Plans are underway for educational programs using the observatory and chat room.
Joshua Davis - Staff Member, Officer, Web Technician
Completed two years of study at Dixie College (business programs).
1997-1998- America Online (AOL) Ogden, Utah, customer support.
1991 to present: Developed Unix-based relational database, Triage (marketed by Meditech). Design and administer web pages for Meditech. Search engine master and key word analyst. Technical support.
Corie Baumeister - Staff Member, Instructor and Manager of the Jumpstart Internship and Placement Program.
Completed various college and competency based programs.
1999 - Completed Meditech’s training courses and operated a home-based medical transcription business. Shortly thereafter, provided the administration of the Jumpstart Internship Program. Serves as a live instructor functions for course questions and answers. Contributed to the courseware in transcription and coding, and the program “Transitioning, Student to MT.” Manage the secondary level placement training for successful candidates of the MT and coding programs. Administator of the competency testing and recommendations. In charge of the Q & A editors who work with the interns.
Connie Kwikla - Staff Member, Instructor, Assistant Manager, Internship Programs.
Trained by Meditech, functions as the primary Q&A supervisor for medical transcription.
Monitors updates in “rules” for MT work and coding updates (ICD and CPT).
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