OAK Horizons Incorporates Patent-Pending HIM Knowledge Base into Online Medical Transcription Curriculum

OAK Horizons deploys the BenchMark KB(TM) knowledge base into their online curriculum and online continuing education programs for medical transcriptionists. This initiative is an important part of OAK Horizon’s continuing strategy to prepare students for meaningful employment upon graduation.

In use by leading Medical Transcription Service Organizations (MTSOs), BenchMark KB sets universal health data quality standards and deploys them to the workstation level, integrating them into the document creation process and improving health data quality.

“It makes sense to train our students on BenchMark KB because it is a tool that they will be using when they enter the workforce,” stated Kathy Martin, AHDI-F and partner in OAK Horizons. “We know it will help our students place with the best transcription companies more quickly, because they will be well versed using the latest tools that are being adopted by all of the leading MTSOs. This means they will produce higher quality documents, require less company training, and make them more productive right from the beginning of their employment.”

BenchMark KB provides its users with a robust knowledge base including Stedman’s medical terminology and drug name content, a referring physician database, the AHDI Book of Style, mentoring tools and best practices, all delivered via web services in real time. Developed by InterFix, the Knowledge Base is part of a research initiative with the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI).

According to Scott Faulkner, CEO of InterFix, LLC, “As a leader in the medical transcription education space, OAK Horizons understands the importance of its role in providing tomorrow’s workers with the tools they need to create quality documentation in a real-time environment after graduation. In use by MTs on four continents, BenchMark KB has demonstrated its ability to improve productivity and quality measurements in production environments. By training on these same real-life tools, OAK Horizons prepares its students to be some of the most sought after candidates in our industry.”

OAK Horizons was originally founded in 1994 under the name of Health Information Career Development Institute, a NYS licensed proprietary school. In July 2002 a decision was made to prepare the curriculum for delivery on the Internet. In this way OAK Horizons addresses the growing need in the healthcare and medical transcription industries for qualified, productive, versatile medical transcriptionists. OAK Horizons partners with colleges and schools around the world to provide this internet-based curriculum as developed from the AHDI Model Curriculum. www.oakhorizons.com.

InterFix, LLC is a software engineering and information technology consulting company based in Atlanta, GA, USA. InterFix is the integration and automation-engineering partner to hundreds of transcription services, clinics, hospitals, government entities, and healthcare software vendors on four continents, the CARICOM Region, and across the United States. www.interfix.biz.