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By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Pay is rising for chief information officers and other high-level health IT executives, according to a College of Healthcare Information Management Executives survey. Top IT executives drew on average a base salary of almost $235,806 in 2018, up 13% increase from 2012’s average of $208,417. Female CIOs made…
By John Commins for Health Leaders KEY TAKEAWAYS Diagnostic errors that led to death or permanent disability were linked with misdiagnosed cancers (37.8%), vascular events (22.8%) and infections (13.5%) — which led the researchers to refer to them as the ‘big three.’ Half of the most-severe harm cases ended in patient death and the other…
By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review Routine medical practices are not always supported by sound research, according to the New York Times. NYT outlined 10 common medical myths researchers disproved in a recent published in eLife. Researchers looked at more than 3,000 peer-reviewed studies published between 2003 and 2017. They found more than 1…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Solutions that have been proposed to resolve the problem of surprise medical bills are a growing social risk for the healthcare industry, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new report. Unexpected bills are generally received by insured patients who inadvertently receive care from out-of-network providers, mainly in emergency situations.…
By Lesley Kadlec, MA, RHIA, CHDA for For the Record HIM professionals from across the country recently brought their many years of skills and expertise to Capitol Hill during AHIMA’s 2019 Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C. The Advocacy Summit is an opportunity for AHIMA members to advocate for the interests of HIM professionals. The summit…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS has provided ICD-10-CM coding updates for fiscal year 2020 that include 273 additions 21 deletions and 30 revisions, according to the American Health Information Management Association. The 21 deletions for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2019, and ending Sept. 30: D813 Adenosine deaminase [ADA] deficiency H8141…
By Galyna Komives, RN, CCS, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Officially, the CDI specialist’s role is to facilitate accurate, complete, and consistent clinical documentation within the health record to demonstrate the quality of the care provided and to support coding and reporting of high-quality healthcare data. In reality, “accurate, complete, and consistent clinical documentation” means multiple questions…
By Ben Harder for MSN The annual U.S. News Best Children’s Hospitals rankings, now in their 13th year, offer guidance to parents seeking the best place for their very sick child. The top 50 medical centers are ranked in 10 specialties, including pediatric cardiology & heart surgery, pediatric cancer and pediatric orthopedics. In the 2019-20 rankings, 84 hospitals ranked among the…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance For health professionals, posting a single negative comment to their Facebook profiles may hinder their credibility with current or potential clients, a new University of Guelph study reveals. The findings have reimbursement implications, as the healthcare industry is becoming ever more consumer-centric, and prospective patients increasingly use the internet…
By Nick Paul Taylor for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: More than two-thirds of healthcare executives think artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies will extensively impact their organizations over the next three years. The new Accenture survey suggests executives will expand quickly beyond the experiments that make up most of the engagement with new digital…