Exciting News: On January 7th, 2009, Career Step announced that it has incorporated the Interfix Knowledge Base (KB) www.interfix.biz into it's curriculum. This health information tool is designed to help students as well as practitioners with a robust search process to quickly find medical terminology, lab values, pharmaceutical words with dosing and diagnosis information, and information in the AHDI (Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity) Book of Style 3rd edition. It also contains a physician database that allows search methods based on different criteria. You can search by location, specialty, name, etc. This comprehensive tool provides state of the art search parameters including wild card searching and the one of the best things about the Interfix KB is that unlike random web searches, this information is validated and accurate.
One other significant advantage that this application provides is electronic-based membership to AHDI. This gives the user access to the professional association for healthcare documentation and opens the door to a great future through information, educational processes, credentialing opportunities and networking.
This research tool will assist medical transcriptionists verify the information they seek in a single step rather than having to search and check various locations for trustworthy information. This represents remarkable progress and revolutionizes previous lookup procedures.
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