M-TEC Endorses Importance of Medical Transcription and Clinical Documentation Industry, Celebrates Student Accomplishments, and Announces Program Milestones

FAIRLAWN, Ohio, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medical Transcription Education Center (M-TEC), a highly-respected and ACCP-approved online medical transcription training program, is concluding National Medical Transcriptionist Week by announcing recent student successes and program accomplishments.

Since its introduction, over 500 medical transcriptionists (MTs) have completed M-TEC's CMT-RMT Review webinar series. Overall, nearly 2,500 MTs have graduated from M-TEC and now serve as medical transcription and clinical documentation professionals. The program reports additional success with their HIPAA Compliance Webinar Series, Increasing Productivity Through Technology Webinar Series, and soon-to-be-announced inclusion of Speech Recognition Editing.

"The importance of medical transcriptionists (MTs) and clinical documentation editors has never been greater as hospitals continue to report increases in physician dictation volumes alongside, not replaced by, EHR growth," mentions Kim Buchanan, CMT, AHDI-F, Director of Instructor Development and Industry Relations for M-TEC. Even in the most technologically advanced hospitals, 62% of physician reports are created using dictation and transcription.

Most importantly, M-TEC recognizes the success of several students and employers:

• Recent graduate receives RMT 30 days following graduation and her employer, MDinTouch of Miami, Florida, states she routinely outshines practitioners with many years of experience.
• Newly diagnosed with lymphoma, a current student has stayed on track and maintained a 96% average grade score.
• Adept, a medical billing and transcription company, recently hired several M-TEC graduates including one who states…"I wouldn't be working if it wasn't for M-TEC's help."
• Paragon Medical Transcription reports 80% of their workforce are M-TEC alumni and they now hire almost exclusively from M-TEC.
• Since January, 12 graduates reported passing the RMT exam and 9 reported passing the CMT exam.

About M-TEC

The Medical Transcription Education Center (M-TEC) was developed and founded in 1996 and is 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's academic purpose is to prepare students for productive careers in the dynamic, ever-changing, and challenging medical transcription profession. 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

SOURCE Medical Transcription Education Center