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By Terry Fletcher BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMCSC, CMCS, ACS-CA, SCP-CA for ICD10 Monitor Physician documentation issues during an audit go beyond CDI. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a four-part series that examines physician documentation…
By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare IT News Last month, LexisNexis brought together 30 high-level executives, most of whom were CIOs from hospitals, nursing homes and health plans of all sizes from across the county to find out what data-related…
By Chuck Buck for ICD10 Monitor EDITOR’S NOTE: Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Following the sea of knitted pink hats worn by some of the hundreds of thousands of women who took to the streets in cities across…
by Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review The state where you live can significantly impact the duration of your life, suggests a new study conducted by the U.S. Burden of Disease Collaborators published in JAMA. For the study, called “The…
Article by Elena Miller, MPH, RHIA, CCS. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on April 11, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Thinking back on the days when it became clear that the ICD-10 classification system was definitely…
By Jessica Kim for Becker’s Hospital Review The majority of patients who access their medical record online use it to view test results, according to an ONC data brief released this month. For the data brief, officials at the ONC analyzed…
Article by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCS, CCDS, CRC. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on March 29, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Is documentation improvement and proper use of ICD-10-CM critical to the nation’s healthcare…
By Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, COPC, CPMA, CPCI, CHPSE, CRC, CDEO, CGSC, CPEDC, CENTC by ICD10 Monitor As coders, we often struggle with assigning the correct codes. There are many gray areas in the guidelines and instructional notes, and sometimes even conflicting…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance The usability of electronic health records may be associated with some safety events in which patients were possibly harmed, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And while…
By Christina Farr for CNBC Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc., takes part in an education-focused event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 27, 2018. Apple wants to bring consumers’ medical information,…