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By Carl Natale, Editor, for ICD10Watch Are you worried that ICD-10’s granularity will take a hefty toll on productivity? Then you’re not alone. One of the major issues with ICD-10 implementation is the concern that the increased specificity will create more work for medical practices and damage productivity. To document that increased specificity, physicians are…
By Reuters at MSN News Community Health Systems Inc , one of the biggest U.S. hospital groups, said on Monday it was the victim of a cyber attack from China, resulting in the theft of Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to 4.5 million patients That would make the attack the largest of…
By Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times The Smithsonian Institution has followed the crowdsourcing crowd, with the opening of an online transcription center allowing members of the public to help decipher thousands of digitized pages of Civil War diaries, botanical labels, correspondence and other documents that cannot be easily read by a computer. Over…
By Dani Gordon for Becker’s Hospital Review Here are the 100 largest hospitals in the United States, listed by number of beds. Note: Data was accessed August 4. The hospital bed counts reported include all medical/surgical and special care beds in children’s, critical access and short-term acute care facilities as reported to CMS by the…
From the University of Michigan on ScienceDaily Many of the nation’s hospitals struggled to meet a federally mandated electronic health records deadline, and as a result could collectively face millions of dollars in reduced Medicare payments this year, a University of Michigan study shows. More than half of U.S. hospitals were on the hook to…
By: Bonnie S. Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, for ICD10 monitor As you prepare for the newly announced Oct. 1, 2015, ICD-10 compliance date, now is the time to evaluate and redefine your clinical documentation value chain. A value chain is a series of activities that are performed in order to deliver a valuable product…
By John DeGaspari for Healthcare Informatics Two healthcare leaders share strategies for clinical documentation improvement at AHIMA CDI Summit There is significant value in Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) in and of itself, according to Sue Bowman, senior director, coding policy and compliance at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and Nelly Leon-Chisen, director of…
BY Christina Farr, for Reuters.com (Reuters) – Apple Inc has been discussing how its “HealthKit” service will work with health providers at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins as well as with Allscripts, a competitor to electronic health records provider Epic Systems, people familiar with the discussions said. While the talks may not…
By Dan Cook for benefitspro A large-scale review of data related to hospital compliance with federal electronic health records mandates reveals that most U.S. hospitals have made substantial progress toward EHR adoption. Nonetheless, because considerable federal dollars are tied to complete adoption, many hospitals — especially small rural ones — could forfeit millions as key…
By Shannon Pettypiece and Jordan Robertson for BloombergBusinessweek Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership lapse, make a habit of buying candy bars at the checkout counter, or begin shopping at plus-size clothing stores. For patients of Carolinas HealthCare System, which operates the largest group of medical centers in…