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Certified Electronic Health Record Specialist is a certificate program that provides students with the knowledge and skills used in the modern medical office. This program is both instructor led, incorporates multi-media, and utilizes interactive on-line learning. Students learn skill sets that will ultimately enable them to complete tasks in a medical environment both efficiently and effectively. Students will learn essential skills for proper medical office procedures; medical terminology and human anatomy. Students completing this program successfully are prepared for the certification that is administered by National Healthcareer Association.

This course explores the roles and responsibilities associated with today's medical office environment. Various medical specialties of allied healthcare workers, physician specialties and hospitals will be explored.
 
Students will gain an understanding of the hospital environment, the physician office, clinics, and other medical facilities.

EHR Specialist's duties will vary with size and specialty of the facility in which they may work. Many can specialize in varying areas or one aspect of the EHR such as entry level coders, encoding within a hospital setting, abstractors and or coding specialist, HIPAA Compliance Officers or HIM (Health Information Managers) and be over entire departments within larger healthcare facilities. The duties an electronic health record specialist may perform include but not necessarily be limited to:

 Assemble patient's health information to ensure information is complete and accurate
Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures and treatment into computer
Statistical and Data Analysis for Quality Improvement Measures
Assist with special studies and research for public health agencies
Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, and use of hospital beds for clinical audits
Manage data backup, retention of records as well as maintain a variety of health record indexes, storage and retrieval systems
Work National Database Registries as a registrar, Contacts discharged patients, their families, and physicians to maintain registry with follow-up information, such as quality of life and length of survival of cancer patients
Work with department managers to review policies and develop new workflows for EHR, coordinates training resources and provides on-going end user training.