ISO Certification

ISO Training : International Organisation for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization, known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. International Standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, can be a useful tool to add credibility, by demonstrating that your product or service meets the expectations of your customers. The certificate is issued from a premium certification body and it can be verified from its accreditation body website. Every certificate comes with a unique certification number.

International Standards are developed by ISO technical committees (TC) and subcommittees (SC) by a process with six steps :

Stage 1: Proposal stage

Stage 2: Preparatory stage

Stage 3: Committee stage

Stage 4: Enquiry stage

Stage 5: Approval stage

Stage 6: Publication stage

As business becomes ever more competitive, ISO 9001 Certification can be a cost - effective means to demonstrate to customers that quality assurance is of paramount importance to your organisation. A recent study of various organisations with ISO 9001 Certification revealed an increase in turnover, sales, customer satisfaction and savings.

ICD-10-AM Certification –

The HIMAA Introductory ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS clinical coding course has been designed for students who have no prior coding knowledge or who have limited coding experience and begins with the basics of disease and procedure classification and coding from medical record information. After sucessfully completing this course students will have the skills and concepts to code from medical records generated by an episode of care such as day surgery, planned surgery or simple medical problems. Health Information Managers (HIMs) are skilled in information technology, health sciences, ht management, systems and data analysis, health law, classification systems, clinical research, and health services funding.

CLINICAL CODER CERTIFICATION : Clinical coders convert information from patients' medical records into alphanumeric codes according to a health classification system. These codes form part of data collection which is used for research, funding and health care planning. Clinical coders must have an excellent attention to detail in order to produce high levels of accuracy. To be eligible to sit for the HIMAA Clinical Coder Certification (CCC) examination candidates must hold a HIMAA Certificate of Achievement for Advanced ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS clinical coding.

Course objectives : After completing the HIMAA Introductory ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS clinical coding course you should:

- Be familiar with the structure and organisation of the five volumes of ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS

- Understand the conventions and instructions used in ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS

- Be able to apply the Australian Coding Standards to clinical coding

- Be able to select appropriate conditions and procedures for coding from medical records generated by an episode of care such as day surgery, planned surgery or simple medical problems

- Be able to identify the principal diagnosis and principal procedure for an admission

- Be able to assign complete and accurate codes from ICD-10-AM, ACHI and ACS for diseases, conditions, injuries and procedures.