Baby Boomers and Healthcare Jobs

Hard to believe but the Baby Boomers reached retirement age in 2011.  Having officially joined the aging population, more medical care is required, thus more healthcare workers.  Because of the significant increase, the industry is looking at where they will recruit...

Affordable Health Care 2015 Data

So, a year later, what’s the story on the ACA? 15 million Americans† who didn’t have health insurance before the ACA was signed into law are now covered, bringing the total uninsured adults in the US from 18% to 13.4%. During the year many dropped their...

History of Medical Transcription

Medical Records are not a new invention Records have been kept on patient care since people first developed the ability to write. At the beginning of the 20th century, stenographers entered the scene who took the doctor’s dictation in shorthand. This method was used...

Health Care Spending

The data from 2013 doesn’t bring a lot of surprises.  Total spent on health care $2.9 trillion, that’s 2,900,000,000,000, and amounts to $9,255 per person.  The total accounts for 17.4 percent of the economy for health care spending. Hospital care was $937...

Knowledge IS the best investment

“An investment in knowledge is the best investment,” said Benjamin Franklin a couple hundred years ago, and nothing has changed that fact. At Med-Certification.com, we wanted to help prepare interested people for healthcare jobs as efficiently and as...

Training and Jobs for Medical Secretaries

Medical Secretaries are important members of the medical care support community. They often work in a hectic environment interacting with their responsibilities relating to patient care. What do medical secretaries do? Medical Secretaries perform a variety of...