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Hundreds of patient records found burning across from Atlanta hospital

By Mackenzie Garrity for Becker’s Hospital Review Piles of patient records were found burning in a dumpster across the street from Atlanta-based Southside Medical Clinic, according to WSBTV. Southside Medical Clinic is unsure how hundreds of patients’ medical records were found burning in the dumpster and stacked outside in shipping crates. A WSBTV representative who…

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4 main takeaways from HIMSS19

By David Lim and Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive For one week in sunny Orlando, Florida, more than 43,000 health IT professionals converged in the mammoth Orange Country Convention Center to showcase technological innovations, argue about interoperability, network and pour creativity into their #HealthPolicyValentines tweets. Health IT’s biggest conference of the year ended Friday. As the…

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Guest post: Clinical validation prioritization efforts

By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog A typical day for a CDI specialist entails obtaining an assignment, whether it’s all payer or Medicare only, and determining the action course for the day. Best practice would be to perform follow ups on any previously queried charts to allow clinicians to have…

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15 things to know about medical coding

By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Medical coding is a key component of revenue cycle management. When done efficiently and accurately, it helps ensure hospitals are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 15 things to know about medical coding: AAPC, formerly known as the American Academy of Professional Coders, describes medical coding as “the…

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HIMSS names the 2019 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award recipients

By Laura Lovett for Healthcare IT News HIMSS on Tuesday unveiled the recipients of its HIMSS 2019 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, including a diverse list of industry players representing Silicon Valley tech giants to major hospitals and academia to the public sector. This year’s awards honor women for their accomplishments advancing and…

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Burnout could cause 51% of healthcare executives to leave current role — 5 findings

By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review Most healthcare executives believe burnout is negatively impacting their organization and don’t think enough is being done about it, according to a Witt/Kieffer survey. Witt/Kieffer surveyed nearly 350 healthcare executives to evaluate how burnout affects healthcare leader retainment and advancement. Key findings: Overall, 79 percent of respondents said…

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Just 13% of hospital CFOs ready for new payment models

By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Confidence among the country’s hospital CFOs is low, with just 13% saying their organization is “very prepared” to handle new healthcare payment and delivery models with current financial planning tools, according to Kaufman Hall’s 2019 CFO Outlook: Healthcare report. That’s down from 15% in 2018. Less than a quarter of…

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KLAS Names Dolbey as #1 Computer-Assisted Coding and #1 Speech Recognition for Front-End Imaging in the 2019 Best in KLAS Report

Dolbey delivers solutions to healthcare that support the entire cycle of a patient’s chart. Its solutions specialize in physician-facing applications for speech recognition and dictation as well as solutions for document creation and transcription, clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and computer-assisted coding (CAC). KLAS Research is a healthcare information technology data and insights company providing the…

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Healthcare added more jobs than other sectors in 2018, and the growth outlook is strong

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance By the end of the year, there were about 16 million people working in healthcare — about 11 percent of all jobs in the overall economy. A lot of jobs were created in the U.S. in 2018, and healthcare accounted for 346,000 of them, for an average of 29,000…

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Book Excerpt: Outpatient CDI reporting structure

By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC for ACDIS CDI Blog If your organization has an inpatient CDI team, decide if outpatient CDI will share the same reporting structure or if the teams should be separate. A shared reporting structure can allow the new outpatient CDI specialists…

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