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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs). Many community colleges in Connecticut offer training programs that can be completed in as little as six months to one year.

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Healthcare Administrative Assistant: Skills, Training, and Career Outlook in Connecticut

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Scheduling patient appointments and ensuring providers’ schedules are well-organized. Communicating with patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies to coordinate care. Managing accurate, up-to-date electronic health records while protecting patient confidentiality.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. even when maybe you’re not even thinking about your own health.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Consider creating a health folder containing this information that you update and bring to each appointment.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you.

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