Reflecting back on 2010, there are many blessings and this is a time to step back and reflect on what we have and those being built. It is also important in our lives to recognize the changes we have endured, and continue to adapt to, managing our lifestyles and livelihoods, staying ahead of the curves in life. Though we are progressing ahead with some uncertainties and hopes for our nation to restore its economic vitality, we must keep moving ahead to see the light that reaches beyond the next bend.
Like many of you, this year I made an important decision in my life to blend my education and skills into the industry. I am employed as the Director of Curriculum Development, focused on building allied healthcare workforce development. It is a blessing to see my healthcare business expand into the industry, serving my client's needs, solving complexities in healthcare, and enabling our skills to meld into new goals together.
The healthcare industry is certainly on the minds of many Americans, as are the health professionals who serve in this line of work. Refined medical procedures, treatment modalities, and technological advancements will reshape our healthcare out of necessity to further solve complex medical problems plaguing our nation. There is a true appreciation, walking an evolving career path, similar to all of you to building patient safety modalities into model curriculums, ensuring standards of practice are instituted into the medical record process.
Through government incentives, electronic medical records will become a fluid part of medical practices. Structured, encoded speech recognition, enabled through natural language speech processing, will allow physician-preferred workflow practices to ensue. The human knowledge worker, trained and skilled through formal education and speech recognition editing course curriculums, will be prepared and equipped to remain the benchmark of physician-dictation workflow processes. One must prepare ahead of the curve for best positioning.
Similarly, the medical coding and billing profession is also experiencing dynamic and rapid change with technologies of computer-assisted coding. Together medical language specialists and medical insurance specialists have similarities in documentation collaboration, creation, and delivery to the end point. Both allied health professionals will remain vital components to documentation creation and the art and science to establish a complete medical record workflow process, telling a patients' complete medical records story.
Regardless of data entry input method, the key will be to ensure the workforce follows the trend and enters the profession to create opportunities of delivering medical records at the point-of-care for the patient. Sophisticated developments in cell phones, digital recorders, computer entry, personal health records, GPS entry, and telemedicine will have its place and increase market share in the foreseeable future. Continuing education is necessary to keep up with the trends, laws, and regulations affecting medical data specialists.
The career opportunities today are very diverse with new paths being created and opened every day. Distance learning opportunities through approved partnered healthcare associations will open the doors to your future and allow transition in our healthcare system during this vital moment in time .
If you have been contemplating adding to your skill set, retooling, or learning a second trade with your skills established, the time is now to begin additional career training. This is an investment made in yourself. Our nation, healthcare industry, and communities (rural or urban) need your expertise to bridge the gaps in preparation for medical records implementation and established health information exchange systems. Healthcare will undergo significant change over the course of the next 4 years, transitioning, and reshaping itself.
I encourage everyone to consider an allied health professional career, where interest is deemed. The opportunities are endless long term - use your background, experience, prior education, and resources you have to evolve into a hybrid career that bridges the gaps in professional workplaces. Data analysts, registrars, educators, health information managers, information technologists, information exchange collaborators, community leaders, and regional extension center implementers are in demand with new enroads in the future.
As this New Year approaches, reach out and make some important choices in yourself that will continue to grow your knowledge and education for the benefit of continued patient safety, medical records administrators and physicians, hospitals transitioning to integrated electronic medical records to the envisioned National Health Information Network. It is a journey together that will branch into multiple new directions.
From a service leadership standpoint, I look forward to celebrating with you this holiday season for many areas of life, and the contribution and difference you make. Take time with your families building holiday memories and have a very blessed season, giving thanks. Enjoy your Christmas celebration and New Year's resolution. Bless you all!
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