Latest News

6 recent studies exploring AI in healthcare

Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review In the past decade or so, researchers have piloted more and more studies exploring artificial intelligence’s potential to transform healthcare for the better, including reducing workflow inefficiencies, predicting future health outcomes and speeding up diagnoses. Here are six key AI studies that have been published recently: “Whose morality? Which…

Read More6 recent studies exploring AI in healthcare

7 key uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine race

By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine will most likely bring about the most rapidly developed vaccine in history, but uncertainties still abound when it comes to a potential vaccine’s effectiveness, safety and ability to be administered to the world’s population. STAT compiled a list of seven key quandaries that scientists,…

Read More7 key uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine race

6 must-know coding updates in 2020

Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s ASC Review compiled a timeline of significant medical coding updates that have been proposed or implemented so far this year: January  CMS began paying for certain angioplasty and stenting procedures in ASCs on Jan. 1, under its 2020 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule. Here…

Read More6 must-know coding updates in 2020

HIM Homebodies — Ignited by COVID-19, More Operations Go Remote

By Lisa A. Eramo, MA for For the Record When COVID-19 hit, Joe Naretto, MHA, RHIA, senior director of HIM at Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, was faced with the task of transitioning 80 full-time employees anchored onsite at various corporate locations across the state to remote work arrangements. “Our direction from leadership was:…

Read MoreHIM Homebodies — Ignited by COVID-19, More Operations Go Remote

CIOs spill the beans on the phrases they hate to hear

By Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News It’s been a stressful time, to say the least, for hospital chief information officers and other IT professionals across industry. The COVID-19 crisis has put immense pressure on the need to optimize systems and enable clinicians to provide patients care in the most efficient ways possible. Even as the…

Read MoreCIOs spill the beans on the phrases they hate to hear

100 of the largest hospitals and health systems in America | 2020

By Staff at Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review compiled 40 large health systems by number of hospitals and 60 large hospitals by bed count. This list was developed based on information as of September 2020. Note: Hospitals and health systems do not pay and cannot pay for inclusion on this list. Largest Health Systems…

Read More100 of the largest hospitals and health systems in America | 2020

New COVID-19 prediction model can help determine disease progression

Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a prediction model to help clinicians forecast if a coronavirus patient’s conditions are likely to worsen. To develop the model, the researchers used data collected from 827 COVID-19 patients admitted to five Johns Hopkins hospitals between March 4 and April 24. They wrote about the…

Read MoreNew COVID-19 prediction model can help determine disease progression

The 10 healthiest communities in America, according to US News

From Advisory Board Los Alamos County, New Mexico is the healthiest community in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report‘s 2020 Healthiest Communities Rankings, which lists counties and county equivalents that score highly on 10 health-related criteria. Methodology For the rankings, U.S. News and the Aetna Foundation evaluated and scored around 3,000 U.S. counties and county equivalents in…

Read MoreThe 10 healthiest communities in America, according to US News

The ICD-11 Clock Is Ticking

By Selena Chavis for For the Record Is it time for health care organizations to start thinking about it? On the ICD-11 front, two significant milestones occurred last year: The World Health Organization (WHO) officially released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the World Health Assembly formally adopted ICD-11. Now…

Read MoreThe ICD-11 Clock Is Ticking

AMA Announces New CPT Codes as COVID-19 Advancements Expand

From For the Record The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published an update to the CPT code set that includes two code additions for reporting medical services sparked by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The update to the CPT code set was approved by the CPT Editorial Panel, the independent body convened…

Read MoreAMA Announces New CPT Codes as COVID-19 Advancements Expand
Dolbey Systems, Inc.