MANILA, Philippines - The Medical Transcription Industry Association of the Philippines Inc. (MTIAPI) recently concluded its first short but intensive course in Basic Medical Coding and Billing held at the Philippine Trade Training Center.

The training was a result of collaborative efforts by the MTIAPI, CITEM-DTI and Media Focus.

“The Medical Coding and Billing Training is only the first of MTIAPI’s series of seminars and workshops in order to beef up the Philippines’ new generation of workforce that is now expanding into servicing the entire health information management sector,” said Myla Rose Mundo-Reyes, MTIAPI president.

Various medical careers relating to health information management are opening new avenues of challenging career growth and great earning potentials. 

Reyes said that with the increasing demand in US health care documentation, the MTIAPI is now looking at opening these opportunities to provide employment to thousands of displaced medical and nursing graduates in the Philippines. 

Reyes said, “There’s a huge opportunity for the Philippines to carve out a substantial share of outsourced services in the US health care documentation sector such as medical transcription, coding, billing, patient education, electronic health record, digital archiving, medical claims recovery and management and so much more.”

Participants were highly satisfied with the conduct of the training and requested for more sessions similar to this. 

“This seminar was an eye-opener to possible business opportunities in the medical billing and coding industry,” said Aileen Ced of the Medserve Healthcare Services Corp.

The MTIAPI will also offer retooling programs to raise the level of competitiveness of medical transcriptionists in the country through continuing education, certification and speech recognition editing training. 

These programs will be offered to medical transcription companies and schools, as well as to independent or home-based MT practitioners.

For more information on the succeeding activities and programs of MTIAPI for the year, visit www.mtiapi.com or e-mail at info@mtiapi.com.