Executive Diploma in Medical Records Technology

IGMPI offers a comprehensive Post Graduate Diploma course in Medical Records Technology providing important skill set and knowledge to handle Medical Records in healthcare and hospital settings.

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

Medical Records Technology course is specially designed to suit personnel providing Medical Records Services and for personnel opting to take Medical Records Management as a career option in the field of life sciences and healthcare. This course is intended to fill the shortage of skilled professionals in the field of Medical Records in hospital and industry setting.

The main objective of the course is to upgrade technical skills/ work efficiency in the core areas of health facility management through educating manual and electronic records. It also covers management of Inpatient and outpatient Medical Records and department registration services. As the course 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 course covers legal issues related to Medical Records, audits by relevant agencies accuracy in filing, retrieving and keeping records.

Course Modules :

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 Record

Module 7: Difficulties Related to Medical Records

Module 8: Architecture of Medical Records.

Module 9: Archival and Deletion of Medical Records.

Module 10: Medical Claims and Processing

Module 11: Data Mining and Statistical Analysis

Module 12: Clinical Documentation Improvement

Module 13: Case Studies

Eligibility

Graduation in Pharma/Medical/Biomedical/Biotechnology/Microbiology/Science and Candidates appearing for the final year of Bachelor's degree/equivalent qualification exam or awaiting their results, are eligible to apply.

Programme Duration

The course will be completed over a period of six months which will include the tenure applicable for examinations as well as case studies completion.

Registration

The registration dates for this bi-annual programme run by the institute are updated timely on the webpage. The Training sessions and webinars are scheduled preferably on weekends depending on the availability of visiting faculty.. Effective E-learning tools incorporated into the design of the webpage make the course lectures, videos and study material easily accessible. This gives huge window of self-regulated and self-paced performance to the participants.

Examination & Certification

IGMPI follows a credit system based on all learning activities involved in studying for all PG Diploma, Executive 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 course, usually after every module) and appear for an online exam at the end of the course. After successful completion, the participants will be awarded Executive Diploma in Medical Records Technology by Faculty of Healthcare Administration, IGMPI. For all the above mentioned modules elaborate course material, self-assessment assignments and project work details would be provided by the Institute from time to time. Details get updated on the webpage as well.

Placement Assistance & Corporate Relations

The Institute has partnered with many organizations for providing with placement assistance to in its participants. Besides, it has a robust placement cell comprised of senior level Human Resources professionals and Talent Acquisition experts which 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.

The efforts of our placement cell also include helping with professional resume writing, interview skills & conducting mock interviews etc.

In recent months the Institute has witnessed more and more participation from professionals working with global pharmaceutical, healthcare and food giants like Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Aurobindo Pharma, Glenmark Generics, Cipla, Wockhardt, Pfizer, Abbott, Medtronic, Foster Corporation, Ipca Laboratories, Calyx, Mother Dairy, Bliss GVS Pharma, Al Rawabi, Almarai, Green Pastures, Accenture, Wipro, Fortis Clinical Research, Quintiles, SeQuent, PepsiCo India, Mankind, Beryl Drugs, CFTRI, Ciron, Sun Pharmaceutical, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Biocon, Apollo Hospitals, etc.

Future career prospects of Medical Records Training

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Pharmaceuticals | Food | Clinical Research | Healthcare | Medical Coding | Medical Device | Nanotechnology | IPR