Emerging Fields of Employment – September 04, 2013 Occupation Spotlight: Medical Coding & Billing Positions Future Potential: 21% Growth – US Department of Labor estimates
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The Medical Technicians field is expanding rapidly.
There are three primary reasons for this.
1. An increasingly aging population.
2. Quantity of treatments being preformed by medical facilities is on the rise.
3. Federal legislation requiring all records be transferred from paper to digital by 10/1/14.
The US Department of Labor website states:
Prospects will be best for those with a certification in health information.
There are certificate programs that allow you to become certified in just 6 months.
Find out about the programs available in your area by visiting:
http://www.gibbam.com/medilearn/index.php
From the site, follow these steps
1 – Review the programs available in your area
2 – Find the one with the most suitable schedule
3 – Evaluate Curriculum
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Position Benefits
1. Quick Training: as short as 6-months to cert.
2. Flexible “work from home” schedules are sometimes provided 3. The Medical Field has staying power.
4. Low interaction with patients.
5. Professional work environments.
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Productivity and Costs: Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, Food Services, and Drinking Places Industries News Release
For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Thursday, August 29, 2013 USDL-13-1773
Technical Information:www.bls.gov/lpc
PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS BY INDUSTRY: WHOLESALE TRADE, RETAIL TRADE, AND
FOOD SERVICES AND DRINKING PLACES INDUSTRIES, 2012
Labor productivity – defined as output per hour – rose in wholesale trade and in retail trade but fell slightly in food services and drinking places in 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Productivity changes were as follows:
2.5 percent in wholesale trade,
2.4 percent in retail trade, and
-0.1 percent in food services and drinking places.
Productivity grew faster in wholesale trade and retail trade in 2012 than in 2011, as output increased at the same rate as in the previous year for wholesale trade and more rapidly for retail trade, while hours rose more slowly in both sectors than in 2011. In food services and drinking places, output and hours both rose more rapidly in 2012 than in 2011, but hours rose faster than output.
Unit labor costs, which reflect the total labor costs required to produce a unit of output, fell in retail trade but rose in wholesale trade and in food services and drinking places in 2012.
Productivity increased in 33 of the 50 detailed 4-digit NAICS industries in 2012. Output grew in 41 industries and hours increased in 33 industries. Unit labor costs fell in 22 industries in 2012.
In wholesale trade, labor productivity rose 2.5 percent as output grew 3.9 percent and hours increased
1.4 percent. Productivity grew 5.0 percent in durable goods wholesalers and 0.1 percent in nondurable goods wholesalers. Output per hour increased in 11 of the 19 wholesale trade industries, while output rose in 15 industries and hours grew in 14. Productivity increased most rapidly in motor vehicles and parts wholesalers, lumber and construction supplies wholesalers, and metals and minerals wholesalers, as output rose substantially in each. Unit labor costs declined in 7 industries.
In retail trade, labor productivity grew 2.4 percent as output increased 3.7 percent and hours rose 1.2 percent. Output per hour increased in 19 of the 27 detailed retail trade industries in 2012, as output grew in 22 industries and hours rose in 16. The largest productivity increases were in home furnishing stores, where output rose considerably more than hours, in furniture stores, where output rose despite a decline in hours, and in book, periodical, and music stores, where output fell but hours declined even more. Unit labor costs fell in 14 industries.
In food services and drinking places, labor productivity declined 0.1 percent, as output grew 4.6 percent and hours rose 4.7 percent. Productivity increased in three of the four detailed industries in this sector, as output grew in four industries and hours increased in three. Productivity rose most in drinking places, alcoholic beverages, where output increased and hours fell. Productivity fell in limited-service eating places, where hours rose more rapidly than output. Unit labor costs rose in three of the industries.
Over the longer term (1987 to 2012), productivity in the wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places sectors advanced more rapidly than in 2012. From 1987 to 2012, output per hour increased at an average annual rate of 3.0 percent in wholesale trade, 2.8 percent in retail trade, and 0.6 percent in food services and drinking places. During this period unit labor costs rose in wholesale trade and in food services and drinking places, but were unchanged in retail trade.
Productivity also increased in more trade and food services and drinking places industries over the longer term than in 2012, with output per hour rising in 47 of the 50 detailed industries from 1987 to 2012. Unit labor costs fell in 18 of the detailed industries over the period.
Year-to-year movements in industry productivity may be erratic, particularly in smaller industries. The annual measures based on sample data may differ from measures generated by a census of establishments in the industry. Annual changes in an industrys output and use of labor may reflect cyclical changes in the economy as well as long-term trends. As a result, long-term productivity trends tend to be more reliable indicators of industry performance than year-to-year changes.
Industry labor productivity measures are updated and revised as new data become available. The latest industry productivity data for trade and food services and drinking places industries and industries in other sectors are available on the BLS Labor Productivity and Costs website at www.bls.gov/lpc.
The measures in this news release incorporate preliminary data from the Census Bureaus Annual Wholesale Trade Report (March 2013), Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (May 2013), Annual Retail Trade Survey (April 2013), and the Annual Revision of the Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories (May 2013), as well as data from the Census Bureaus Nonemployer Statistics (May 2013).
The labor productivity and output series for all industries have been revised for 2011 and earlier years as a result. This news release also incorporates the annual benchmark revision of the BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey published in February 2013. In addition, the unit labor cost measures incorporate preliminary data from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (June 2013). All of the measures for 2012 in this release are preliminary and subject to revision.
The industries included in this release are classified according to the 2007 NAICS. While the rates of change reported by BLS in this news release are rounded to one decimal place, all industry productivity percent changes are calculated using index numbers rounded to three decimal places.
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