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By Dave Baumgardner, Director of Information Management, Union Hospital, for Health Management Technology Speech technology improves productivity and reduces costs for community hospital. Union Hospital’s investments in digital dictation and transcription over the years have not only improved its documentation productivity and reduced costs, but have also helped prepare our hospital for the upcoming ICD-10…

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CAC & the Coder’s Transition

By Becky DeGrosky, Product Manager at TruCode & Chris Casto, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Dolbey for Advance for Health Information Professionals Computer-assisted coding and encoder technology are changing workflow for ICD-10 readiness. The medical coding career has not experienced a significant change event since the introduction of DRGs in 1984. For decades,…

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Poll shows frustration over ICD-10 delay

By: Bernie Monegain, Editor for HealthcareITNews.com The American Health Information Management Association’s 2014 ICD-10 and Computer Assisted Coding Summit April 22-23 in the nation’s capital featured the latest industry reaction to the ICD-10 delay. Summit participants had the chance to share opinions in a real-time poll conducted via text that addressed a variety of key…

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Exclusive: FBI warns healthcare sector vulnerable to cyber attacks

By Jim Finkle for Reuters UK (Reuters) – The FBI has warned healthcare providers their cybersecurity systems are lax compared to other sectors, making them vulnerable to attacks by hackers searching for Americans’ personal medical records and health insurance data. Health data is far more valuable to hackers on the black market than credit card…

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5 ways to use the ICD-10 delay wisely

By Jeff Tennant and Kenneth Fody, Esq. for Government Health IT The delay in ICD-10 implementation was met last week with equal parts relief and frustration. Health plans and healthcare providers who were ready are understandably frustrated by the delay; those that were seriously behind in preparations breathed a deep sigh of relief. While the…

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Misdiagnosed: Docs’ Mistakes Affect 12 Million a Year

By Jonel Aleccia for nbcnews.com At least one in every 20 adults who seeks medical care in a U.S. emergency room or community health clinic may walk away with the wrong diagnosis, according to a new analysis that estimates that 12 million Americans a year could be affected by such errors. Of those misdiagnosis mistakes,…

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UPMC: As many as 27,000 employees affected in data breach

By Adam Smeltz & Luis Fabregas for Triblive.com The scope of an identity theft scheme at UPMC widened on Thursday as the health care giant confirmed personal information for as many as 27,000 workers might have been compromised. New estimates released by UPMC show at least 788 workers fell victim to tax fraud in the…

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ICD-10 Delay: What’s Next For Healthcare Organizations?

By Kaveh Safavi, M.D., J.D. for InformationWeek-HealthCare Healthcare organizations have at least four options for dealing with the delayed implementation of new diagnostic codes. Many of the complexities of medicine are distilled down to a vocabulary of diagnostic codes, called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which are used by doctors, insurers, and hospitals. Today’s…

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Boston Children’s Leads Effort to Create iTunes-Like Store for Health Apps

By Helen Gregg, for Becker’s Hospital CIO More than 43,000 healthcare apps are currently available for download in the Apple iTunes store. However, physicians are hesitant to recommend them, the most vulnerable populations (especially patients aged 65 or over) are the least likely to use them and many have very limited functionality, according to a…

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Hospitals Get Into Doctor Rating Business

By Phil Galewitz for Capsules, the Kaiser Health Blog After some doctors at University of Utah Health Care noticed scathing online reviews about themselves in 2012, the hospital system decided the best way to respond was by posting its patients’ ratings of physicians on the hospital’s own website. The hospital was already randomly surveying patients…

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