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Cleveland Clinic creating center for AI in healthcare

By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Cleveland Clinic has launched a new center to advance applications for artificial intelligence in healthcare. An initiative of Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Analytics, the Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence will bring together doctors, researchers, data scientists and others to develop clinical use cases for AI and machine learning…

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Book excerpt: Hiring and training new CDI specialists

By Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS for ACDIS CDI Blog Hiring the best possible CDI specialists is undoubtedly the most crucial piece of the puzzle when forming a new CDI program or expanding an existing one. A CDI specialist is a uniquely qualified individual—this is not a career path for the faint of…

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Diagnostic errors compounded by EHRs still No. 1 patient safety concern

By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: For the second year in a row, diagnostic errors and improper management of test results in EHRs top ECRI Institute’s list of patient safety concerns facing healthcare leaders. The list is intended as a starting point for organizations to review their patient safety records and set priorities…

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Can AI help prevent physician burnout?

By Jordan Rosenfeld for Modern Economics So much of a physician’s workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and regulatory burdens and EHR hassles, it’s no wonder physicians are burning out in record numbers. Experts in artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of…

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CMS updates hospital star ratings for the first time since 2017

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: For the first time in more than a year, CMS updated its hospital star ratings. The agency collects the data from its Hospital Quality Initiative programs and the public can view the star ratings on the Hospital Compare website. The American Hospital Association, which has requested a complete termination of the star…

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ICD-11 contains nearly 4x as many codes as ICD-10: Here’s what WHO has to say

By Angie Stewart for Becker’s ASC Review The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. Thirty-one countries played a role in field testing ICD-11. Here are five takeaways and quotes from WHO’s press briefing announcing the launch: 1. ICD-11…

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Hospitals now employ more than 40% of physicians, analysis finds

By Les Masterson for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Hospitals acquired 8,000 medical practices and 14,000 physicians left private practice and entered into employment arrangements with hospitals between July 2016 and January 2018, according to a new report by Avalere Health and the Physicians Advisory Institute (PAI). The number of hospital-acquired physician practices grew from 35,700…

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Guest post: What is clinical validation

By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog What is clinical validation and why is it important right now? The following quote from the June 2014 edition of Perspectives on Health Information Management sums it up in a nutshell: “Documentation is an important aspect of medical care. In addition to clinical communication,…

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Healthgrades Names America’s Best Hospitals for 2019

By Healthgrades Media Staff for Healthgrades Media This year is the first time two awards have been consolidated into a single list that includes the top 250, 100, and 50 hospitals. Healthgrades released its annual list Tuesday of “America’s Best Hospitals,” using clinical outcomes to identify the top 5% of hospitals nationwide. In years past,…

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Move Beyond Coding with CAC

By Chris Casto Many healthcare organizations implemented computer-assisted coding (CAC) to supplement coding operations. The use of natural language processing to pre-read patient charts to suggest ICD-10-CM-PCS and CPT codes to the coding staff resulted in higher productivity, greater accuracy or both. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, some organizations have moved beyond code suggestions…

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