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Physician pay stagnates and women report lower salaries, PracticeMatch says

By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance The largest increase from 2016 to 2017 attributed to Emergency Medicine, a specialty that saw nearly five percent growth. What Happened  PracticeMatch’s annual physician survey showed physician pay has stagnated, female doctors are still being paid less than their male colleagues. That said, among both genders overall job…

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Physician Advisors’ Role in CDI

By James P. Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer for ACDIS Blog Risk is the new buzzword in healthcare, right up there with denial. In fact, CDI programs often deploy physician advisors to assist with shared risk payment models, denial prevention, and improved outcome performance. However, a CDI physician advisor without proper training and…

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Artificial intelligence gaining trust for cancer diagnosis and treatment, study finds

By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance While a majority of patients say they would consider the technologies to diagnose cancer and recommend treatment, they still fear costs. What Happened A new survey from McKesson and Ipsos revealed widespread openness toward AI and genetic testing as a solution for cancer diagnosis, but concern about cost…

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Healthcare Professional Burnout: Spot It, Stop It

By Rachel Tirabassi It’s about time the burnout syndrome is making headlines in healthcare. But what exactly is it? An article published by JAMA, defines burnout as “an individual losing enthusiasm for work (emotional exhaustion), treating people as if they were objects (depersonalization), and having a sense that their work is no longer meaningful (low…

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How hospitals can prepare for new ICD-10 codes on human trafficking

By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review In June, the CDC published 29 ICD-10 codes to help providers document sex and labor exploitation. The human-trafficking-related codes are a collaboration between Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative and clinicians at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital’s Freedom Clinic. They will take effect in…

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Hurricane Florence: Lessons from hospitals that survived recent natural disasters

By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance Here are some of the things hospitals should be working to put in place and resources available during storm season. Hurricane season is kicking into high gear. State and local governments in some areas are recommending that citizens evacuate certain areas. People are packing up. And hospitals are…

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Summer just ended, but CDC officials are already urging people to prepare for another potentially nasty flu season

By Angelica LaVito for CNBC Summer may still be lingering, but federal health officials are already urging people to start prepping for another potentially nasty flu season after last year’s was particularly deadly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 700,000 people were hospitalized with the flu during last season, with…

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AI predicts risk of death from heart disease more accurately than experts

Leontina Postelnicu for Healthcare IT News The machine learning model uses 600 variables with patient’s data whereas human-constructed models made predictions based on 27, researchers say. Scientists have designed a model using Artificial Intelligence that can predict risk of death in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) better than expert-constructed models. According to a new…

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Can Technology Solve the Technology Problem?

By Sarah Elkins for For the Record Following a study which noted front-end speech recognition’s failure to increase physician satisfaction with their jobs, experts contemplate how to rectify the situation. In May, KLAS Research published the findings of a 12-month evaluation of organizations with high adoption rates of front-end speech recognition tools. The study focused…

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Guest Blog: Clinical Validation

By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog I think we’re all familiar with the Law of Unintended Consequences. That’s the concept that something begun with the best of intentions can wind up going horribly awry. Examples include “New Coke” and anything ending in the word “Kardashian.” (Although I’m not sure anything the…

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