Career Step Launches New Medical Transcription Editor Training Program
PROVO, Utah (PRWEB) March 30, 2010
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, has launched a new Medical Transcription Editor (MTE) online training program designed to train students as quality medical transcriptionists as well as specialized medical transcription editors. These specialized editors correct and complete the reports generated by speech recognition software.
“We’ve developed the new Medical Transcription Editor program to ensure our students are marketable and flexible in the current job market as well as prepared for the future,” said Michael Wilstead, Career Step CEO. “Several of the medical transcription service organizations who hire our graduates asked that we develop this training—they need quality employees with both medical transcription and medical editing skills sets, and they see that need only increasing in the future.”
Career Step has been a leader in medical transcription education for almost 20 years, offering an industry-leading Medical Transcription training program. This time-tested and employer-recognized curriculum is the foundation of the new MTE training program, which incorporates training designed to help students gain the specialized skills necessary to perform both medical transcription and to complete the reports generated by speech recognition systems. This new program was developed in response to employer requests and is designed to prepare students for the industry trend toward a greater number of speech recognition generated reports.
In order to provide students with the best and most relevant training, Career Step has partnered with M*Modal and incorporated their industry-leading editing technology in the practicum section of the training program.
“Including M*Modal technology in our training program simulates the workplace and allows our students to learn on transcribed files like those they’ll actually encounter as professionals in the industry,” said Mark Thomas, Career Step COO. “We chose to partner with M*Modal because of their market leadership and innovative speech recognition technology.”
The Career Step training program incorporates M*Modal’s editing tool, AnyModal Edit, in order to prepare students for the reality of the workplace.
“We are very pleased to partner with Career Step,” said Mark Ivie, COO of M*Modal. “M*Modal’s speech recognition technology is now delivering edit ready draft documents to eight of the top ten medical transcription service organizations, and the collaboration between Career Step and M*Modal for the creation of a medical transcription editing training program is a logical solution to meeting the challenges medical transcriptionists face when moving from the world of transcription to the world of editing.”
The new Career Step training program will be offered in both a full vocational version, designed for those with no previous medical transcription experience, and a supplemental version, meant for those already trained or working as medical transcriptionists. For more information on either of these new Career Step training options, visit CareerStep. com/mte (http://careerstep. com/mte/?uid=pub100330) or call 1-800-246-7837.
About Career Step Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www. careerstep. com (http://careerstep. com/?uid=pub100330) or call 1-800-246-7837.
About M*Modal M*Modal Technologies, founded in 2001, is used in 800 hospital and healthcare systems nationwide via partnerships with industry leaders in the healthcare IT and services world. M*Modal is based in Pittsburgh, PA, and offers on-demand conversational documentation services that help healthcare providers capture discrete clinical information from dictation to generate complete and timely electronic medical records. M*Modal's focus is on providing hospitals, healthcare IT vendors, and medical transcription service providers with the industry's most comprehensive yet most adaptable solution for creating highly accurate, structured, encoded, and shareable medical documents to increase patient safety, promote continuity of patient care, and reduce cost. For more information on M*Modal, visit its web site at: www. mmodal. com (http://www. mmodal. com)
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