M-TEC Announces ‘New HIPAA Regulations’ Compliance Course for Medical Transcription Industry Professionals

FAIRLAWN, Ohio, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ — The Medical Transcription Education Center (M-TEC), a highly-respected and ACCP-approved medical transcription training program, has introduced a new course of study on the critical aspects of security and privacy of healthcare documentation. The curriculum provides a thorough review of best practices and guidelines for preparing medical documents and protecting health information under ARRA’s HITECH Act. The announcement was made by Jack McCullough, the President of M-TEC.

The first course, pre-approved for six medicolegal continuing education credits by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), will begin January 11, 2010, and last for six weeks. The curriculum, developed by Brenda Hurley, CMT, AHDI-F, 2009 Speaker of the House for the AHDI, is designed for students, medical transcriptionists, documentation editors, supervisors, service owners, and providers. Hurley will moderate the six-week webinar program for M-TEC. She has been a medical transcriptionist, an educator, a compliance officer, and served in a variety of transcription senior management roles for nearly 40 years.

“M-TEC is excited to partner with Brenda to facilitate a course to educate our students and our industry on the fine details of compliance. This course will provide a program that is essential to meet the latest industry regulations, benefiting individual medical transcriptionists, as well as the services where they work,” states Vallie Piloian, CMT, AHDI-F, Director of Business Development and Innovation. For more information about the course, visit the company’s website: www.mtecinc.com.

About M-TEC

The Medical Transcription Education Center (M-TEC) was developed and founded in 1996 by experienced medical transcriptionists (Kathleen Kropko, CMT, AHDI-F and Susan Francis, CMT, AHDI-F). M-TEC’s academic purpose is to prepare students for productive careers in the dynamic, ever-changing, and challenging medical transcription profession. In addition to being the first school to be approved by the Approval Committee for Certificate Program (ACCP), a joint committee established by AHDI and AHIMA for certifying and approving medical transcription education programs, M-TEC also partners with a variety of colleges within the United States. M-TEC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Webmedx.

M-TEC is approved by the State of Ohio Board of Career Colleges and Schools, Certificate #08-11-1886T

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