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Simon Bramhall pleads guilty to two counts of assault after using argon gas to sign ‘SB’ on patients’ organs By Frances Perraudin for The Guardian A surgeon has pleaded guilty to marking his initials on the livers of two patients while performing transplant surgery. In a hearing at Birmingham crown court on Wednesday, Simon Bramhall…
by Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review On average, Milwaukee has the most expensive hospitals in the nation, while Buffalo, N.Y. has the least expensive hospitals, according to the Amino Facility Cost Rating analysis. The Amino Cost Rating is built on the Amino Facility Cost Index, which measures the expensiveness of a facility based on…
By Julie Spitzer Becker’s Hospital Review The Emergency Care Research Institute ranked ransomware and other cybersecurity threats as the No. 1 health technology hazard for 2018, according to its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2018 list. The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research group, compiled the list based on its judgment of which risks should…
By Naseem S. Miller for Orlando Sentinel The number of babies who were exposed to opioids in the womb jumped by 200 percent in Florida between 2015 and 2016 — to more than 2,500 cases — the biggest spike in the past decade, according to state data. But the number of newborns statewide who were…
By Angie Dibble, RHIT for For The Record Sepsis, encephalopathy, malnutrition, and acute renal failure are examples of diagnoses that often prove vexing for coders and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists. What if the sepsis diagnosis is based on “technically meets sepsis criteria” because a patient with a urinary tract infection has an elevated white blood…
As health systems work to get the most from their physicians’ EHR charting, experts say it’s important to focus on the right metrics while working toward greater buy-in from doctors. By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News Hospitals and health systems trying to survive and thrive under value-based reimbursement realize that optimal clinical documentation is…
By Robert Pearl, M.D. for Forbes Over the past seven seasons, Game of Thrones fans have demonstrated the ability to spot an emerging threat early on – a quality more leaders in healthcare need to possess. If you’ve tuned into the popular HBO series from the beginning, you likely recall Ned Stark (Lord of Winterfell)…
By Selena Chavis for For the Record Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) processes have made significant inroads in recent years. Now a mainstream strategy within any forward-looking hospital, CDI teams are critical players in the greater quality management picture as it relates to successfully positioning for value-based care. Not all CDI workflows and processes are created…
By Mary Rechtoris for Becker’s Hospital Review There is a shortage of nurses throughout the U.S., with Hawaii having the fewest nurses per 1,000 residents. Using U.S. Census Bureau, FBI crime and Kaiser Family Foundation data, Medicare Health Plans compiled a list of states and U.S. regions boasting the highest percentage of overworked nurses. Here…
Article by Marina Kravtsova. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on Sep 29, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Over the past nine months, the clinical documentation improvement (CDI) team that I represent has been recruited to perform so-called second level reviews. All cases presented to the CDI team for second level review thus…