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Is Upcoding a Problem? Not Quite Say Researchers

By Gabriel Perna for healthcare-informatics.com Last December, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) painted an ugly picture of fraudulent use of electronic health records (EHRs) by hospitals and healthcare provider settings. HHS OIG said that a good chunk of provider organizations they studied were not protecting patient data from potential misuse…

Posted on:Jul 30, 2014
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Little-known Medicare lawsuit can help clear path to recovery

Medicare patients can’t lose treatment even if they ‘show no improvement,’ says oft-ignored Jimmo v. Sebelius By Gabe Quintanilla for the Houston Chronicle Several days after Christmas last year, my 91-year-old mother suffered a stroke. Up until that time, I had paid very little attention to the topic of Medicare. But in the days that…

Posted on:Jul 30, 2014
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More than 750 hospitals face Medicare penalties for patient injuries

By Jordan Rau for Healthcare Finance News Publicly owned hospitals and those that treat large portions of low-income patients are more likely to be assessed penalties During a hernia operation, Dorothea Handron’s surgeon unknowingly pierced her bowel. It took five days for doctors to determine she had an infection. By the time they operated on…

Posted on:Jul 2, 2014
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AHIMA: Revenue, readiness remain among top ICD-10 concerns

By Jennifer Bresnick for ehrintelligence.com Despite the extra year of prep time granted by the ICD-10 delay, a significant number of providers remain worried about how they will meet the demands of the transition to the new code set, now slated for October 1, 2015, and how ICD-10 will impact their practices in the aftermath.…

Posted on:Jul 2, 2014
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9 Of 10 Hospitals Plan Expanded Speech Recognition Programs

By Katie Wike, contributing writer Health IT Outcomes A KLAS survey reveals 9 of 10 hospitals plan to expand the use of front-end speech deployment. Speech recognition technology has been called an “aggressively” growing market by HIMSS, and already has shown a growth rate of more than 20 percent per year, as Health IT Outcomes…

Posted on:Jul 2, 2014
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The voice recognition revolution is almost here

By Pooja Bhatia, Ozy.com for usatoday.com Feel like breaking your keyboard? Maybe, in a few years, you could. For years, voice recognition was mainly a novelty for nerds or a pain-in-the-neck substitute for people unable to type. That’s changed, and fast — even in the three short years since Apple unleashed Siri onto a gazillion…

Posted on:Jul 1, 2014
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Exploring the Benefits of Dual Coding and CDI

By: Angela Carmichael for icd10monitor.com The primary benefit of the latest delay in the implementation of ICD-10 is that it allows ample time for additional preparation and testing. One element of preparation that should be on each provider’s to-do list is dual coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI). The process and scope of any dual…

Posted on:Jul 1, 2014
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Survey Reveals Heavy Spending on EHR in Coming Year

The only way forward now on EHRs is ahead, into uncharted territory By Mark Hagland for Healthcare Informatics As we reported here on June 2, the Premier healthcare alliance on that date released the results of a new survey that found both that “Nearly half (49 percent) of c-suite healthcare executives plan to make their…

Posted on:Jun 12, 2014
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Cleveland Clinic Chief Out of Running for V.A.

By ROBERT PEAR for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Dr. Delos M. Cosgrove, the chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic, said Saturday he had been considered by President Obama for the job of secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, but had withdrawn his name and would stay at the clinic. The statement by…

Posted on:Jun 11, 2014
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10 Disruptive Forces in Healthcare

By Shideh Sedgh Bina for Becker’s Hospital Review Through extensive research into the thought-leading literature on the industry, as well as interviews with executives, physicians, policy makers and other stakeholders at the heart of the matter, Insigniam has distinguished ten disruptive forces in healthcare, which healthcare leaders will need to address in their strategies if…

Posted on:Jun 11, 2014
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