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		<title>Good News for Medical Administrative Assistants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Labor Statistics has some pretty exciting statistics for medical administrative assistants: they’re earning about $2.00 more than the national hourly average for healthcare support occupations and about $4,500 over the national average for yearly salary within the same category1. The medical administrative assistant career also stacks up well against other careers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Practice Consultants Help Build the Demand for Medical Administrative Assistants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Healthcare Management Consultants was founded in Ohio back in 1949, it was one of very few healthcare management consulting companies in America. Today, members of two professional organizations for healthcare consultants (The American Association of Healthcare Consultants and The National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants) can be found in every state in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maa.blog.ultimatemedical.edu/2010/07/medical-practice-consultants-help-build-the-demand-for-medical-administrative-assistants/</link>
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		<title>Simple Steps to Conflict Resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Getting to Yes, his classic book on negotiating, Roger Fisher writes: “Like it or not, you are a negotiator. Negotiation is a fact of life. You discuss a raise with your boss. You try to agree with a stranger on a price for his house. . . . Everyone negotiates something every day.” Fisher, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maa.blog.ultimatemedical.edu/2010/06/simple-steps-to-conflict-resolution/</link>
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		<title>Quick Strategies to Break Procrastination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to get down to work. You have to sit down to study. But instead, you make another a cup of tea, chat with a friend, or shop online. We all do it, because procrastination is one of life’s guilty little pleasures. But if procrastination becomes a habitual pattern, it can add a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIPPA Safeguards: What is it and why do we do it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the field of Medical Assisting we talk a lot about HIPAA.  Many call it “the privacy act” or “security rule”.  Its true intention is the portability of the insurance coverage in order to provide continuity of coverage for workers and their families when they lose or change jobs. The law covers several items related to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maa.blog.ultimatemedical.edu/2010/05/hippa-safeguards-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Can &#8220;Cold Calling&#8221; Potential Employers Help You Get a Job?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Randall S. Hansen, founder of QuintCareers, cold calling potential employers can be a highly effective way to discover unadvertised jobs and get interviews with employers. “Cold calling, or uninvited job-hunting, is a proven method of finding employment,” writes Hansen on his blog. “When you consider that four-fifths of the job market is `closed,’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Ways to Backup Your Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you currently working or planning to work from home? Are you concerned about the huge amounts of data that are piling up on your home computer? Here are a few of the best ways to backup your work: Mozy – This is an online backup service that takes your data and stores it somewhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Manage Workflow from Above</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: This post was originally posted on our Medical Billing and Coding Blog. Check it out for more information! “I&#8217;ve learned that you shouldn&#8217;t go through life with a catcher&#8217;s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back&#8230;” - Maya Angelou, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Is it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maa.blog.ultimatemedical.edu/2010/04/5-ways-to-manage-workflow-from-above/</link>
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		<title>Direct Your Own Learning While Working From Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to find ourselves stuck in the grind of everyday, especially when working or taking classes from home. We get into the same weekly routine and take little time to think about what we are actually doing. Are you growing? Are you pushing yourself? There is a question that I ask myself at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maa.blog.ultimatemedical.edu/2010/04/direct-your-own-learning-while-working-from-home/</link>
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		<title>Interviewing? Don’t Overlook the Small Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Top 10 Unbelievable Interview Blunders,” an article on CareerBuilder.com, tells some really funny stories about blunders that job-seekers have committed in interviews. There was the man who asked his interviewer to leave her own office so he could have a “private” conversation on his cell phone.  And the candidate who asked his interviewer for a [...]]]></description>
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