Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Diploma in Medical Records Technology

IGMPI offers a comprehensive short term programme in Medical Records Technology that provides important skills and knowledge to handle Medical Records in healthcare and hospital settings.

Medical Records Technology is a distinctive programme offering information pertaining to the operations of a healthcare facility. It is a science of managing the entire patient’s information related to collecting, filing and storing of important data. The programme involves study of patient charts, scanning Medical Records, medical coding of diseases, thereby ensuring compliance to regulations and retention schedules. The programme also emphasizes on destruction of Medical Records after their retention.

Medical Records Technology programme is specially designed to suit personnel providing medical records services and for personnel opting to take Medical Record Management as a career option in the field of life sciences and healthcare. This programme is intended to fill the shortage of skilled professionals in the field of Medical Record in hospital and industry settings.

The main objective of the programme is to upgrade technical skills and work efficiency in the core areas of health facility management through educating with the help of manual and electronic records. It also covers management of Inpatient and outpatient medical records and department registration services. As the programme involves modules on medical coding and ICD-10, this also covers generating statistics on morbidity and mortality by ICD-10 coding of diseases and diagnostic indexing. Additionally, the programme covers the legal issues related to Medical Records, audits by relevant agencies accuracy in filing, retrieving and keeping records.

Programmme Structure :

Module 1: Medical Records- An Introduction

Module 2: Planning and Documentation: Medical Records

Module 3: Ethics and Legal Compliance

Module 4: Medical Coding

Module 5: International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)

Module 6: Electronic Medical Records & it’s Challenges

Module 7: Architecture of Medical Records.

Module 8: Archival and Deletion of Medical Records.

Module 9: Medical Claims and Processing

Module 10: Data Mining and Statistical Analysis

Module 11: Clinical Documentation Improvement

Module 12: Case Studies

Eligibility

Any Graduation/ B.tech/ B.Sc. in Microbiology/ Life Sciences/ Botany/ Zoology/ Food Science/ Food Technology/ BE/ B.Pharma/ MBBS/ BDS/ BHMS/ BUMS/ BAMS or any other discipline. Diploma holders are eligible for our Professional Diploma, Industry Certificate, and Certificate Programmes.

Programme Duration

The duration to complete this programme is 1 year (Post Graduate Diploma), 6 months (Professional Diploma).

Registration

The registration dates for this programme run by the Institute are updated timely on the webpage. Effective online learning tools incorporated into the design of the webpage make the programme lectures, online live classes and study material easily accessible. This gives a huge window of self-regulated and self-paced performance to the participants.

Programme Deliverables

A comprehensive study material for all the modules in hard copies ensuring the needs of the audience. The accompanying training material is appropriately aligned with the current Industry’s expectations.

• – Assignments for all the programme modules for continuous evaluation and guidance.
• – Interactive or online live sessions on all key areas of the programme giving all flexibility to the participants.
• – Online classes for all the modules will be conducted on the weekends. Moreover, a doubt clearing session will also be scheduled before the examination.
• – All the efforts are made by IGMPI faculty members to make the entire programme modules easily understandable.
• – Assessment and evaluation for all the programme modules in order to enhance the levels of competencies and skills of the participants leading towards the objective of application in the job.
• – At the end of each programme modules, the trainers shall obtain feedback from the participants using specially designed questionnaires.
• – All learning and training delivery initiatives shall be conducted in English.

Examination & Certification

IGMPI follows a credit system based on all learning activities involved in studying for all PG Diploma, Professional Diploma and Certificate Programmes. Each of your modules is equal to 4 credits. To successfully complete the programme, you will have to earn all the credits assigned to your programme.

All the participants are obliged to timely submit completed assessment assignments (during the programme, usually after every module) and appear for an online exam at the end of the programme. After successful completion, the participants will be awarded Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Diploma in Medical Records Technology by Centre for Health Management and Research (CHMR), IGMPI. For all the above-mentioned modules, Online Classes (Online mode) or face-to-face classes (Regular mode), elaborate programme material, self-assessment assignments would be provided by the Institute. Details get updated on the webpage as well.

Placement Assistance & Corporate Relations

The Institute has partnered with many organizations to provide placement assistance to in its participants. Besides, it has a robust placement cell comprised of senior-level human resources professionals and talent acquisition experts that maintains close links with business and industry. This cell is continuously engaged in promoting the employability of our participants and encouraging the concerned Human Resources department and hiring managers to recruit/hire our participants for their vacant positions. The efforts of our placement cell also include helping with professional resume writing & interview skills.

In recent months, the Institute has witnessed more and more participation from professionals working with global healthcare like Epic System Corporation, Meditech, AdvancedMD EHR, Binary Spectrum, Birlamedisoft Pvt. Ltd., NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, GE Healthcare, McKession, CureMD, Nextech, Kareo, Cerner Corporation, Epic Systems Corporation, Athenahealth, CareCloud Co., etc. The IGMPI’s Corporate Resource Division actively recommends our students and training participants for various job requirements and specialized roles to Human Resource, Talent Acquisition as well as the heads of various departments in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare industries on regular basis.

Future career prospects of Medical Records Training

India is projected to be ranked within the top three healthcare markets in terms of incremental growth by the year 2025. There are ample job opportunities in the field of medical science for the students of the medical records technician course. For those who want to work in the health-care medical records technology, the course can be a great choice for them. According to recent studies and statistics, a career in Medical Records Technology can be very rewarding. With the healthcare industry rising in significance, this programme can be very helpful in the current market scenario. This curriculum will assist you in becoming an efficient medical record manager. As a record manager, you will take care of maintaining patient’s medical records and perform statistical reporting and research. You'll learn how to use medical office software and billing strategies.

Medical Records Technicians are hired in both public and private hospitals and as well as in clinics, polyclinics, Diagnostic Centers, Medical Insurance Centers, Health Care Centers, Nursing Homes, Medical Colleges / Universities, Outpatient Care Centers etc. They are decently paid and they can anticipate good career growth. If you're looking to join a growing industry, you should consider a career in the field of medical record technology. The field is growing at a rapid pace. With more people spending more time in hospitals, more patients are using medical records for legal purposes. Health records are being scrutinized more and more by government agencies and insurance companies. As a result, this field is growing very fast and this will help you to find a job in the health care field that you'll love.

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