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Covenant Health Selects Dolbey for Computer-Assisted Coding and ICD-10 Readiness

Cincinnati, OH, November 19, 2013 – Dolbey today announced that Covenant Health, East Tennessee’s leading provider of healthcare, has selected the Fusion CAC solution for each of their seven hospitals. Increased coder productivity and improved financial performance were driving factors in making this decision while preparing for the dramatic healthcare change to ICD-10. Covenant’s physicians…

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The 7 Hottest Jobs Of The Health Care Boom

The health care and social-assistance sector has been rapidly growing in recent years and is expected to generate the largest number of jobs, a total of 5.6 million, and grow at an annual rate of 3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the most dramatic growth of any sector in the country,…

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Retail Clinics: Threat or opportunity?

By Marty Stempniak for Hospital & Health Networks The explosion of retail clinics worries some traditional health care providers. But clinic leaders say far from competing with hospitals are physicians, they’re helping to build a care continuum. Framing the issue The number of retail health clinics could double to 2,400 locations in the next three…

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HIPAA breach is bad news for 729,000

Health system now to ‘expedite’ encryption By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News Despite the revamped federal HIPAA Omnibus Rule which holds covered entities and business associates more accountable for failing to adequately protect patients’ health information, some groups continue to make the same old avoidable mistakes. AHMC Healthcare, a six-hospital health system in Alhambra,…

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UPMC: City of Pittsburgh Cannot Identify a Single Person Employed by UPMC

By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review Pittsburgh-based UPMC has maintained its claim it has zero employees and said the city of Pittsburgh “has not, and cannot, identify a single person who is employed by or on the payroll of UPMC, the parent holding company,” according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. Instead, in a filing…

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Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare

Americans who sign up for insurance on the state exchanges may not have access to the nation’s top hospitals, Watchdog.org reports. By Tori Richards for Watchdog.org The Obama Administration has been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven’t surveyed the nation’s top hospitals.…

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ChartWise and Dolbey Announce “Best-of-Breed” Technology Alliance to Link Computer-Assisted Documentation Improvement and Coding

Organizations Join Forces to Improve Revenue Capture Through Improved Clinical Documentation CONCORD, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2013 — Dolbey Systems, a leading provider of Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC), and ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc., the leader in Computer-Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement (CACDI), have formed a technology alliance enabling ChartWise:CDI and the recently announced second-generation ChartWise 2.0 software to…

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Dolbey and HRS Announce Strategic Alliance Partnership

Organizations join forces to help hospitals prepare for the challenges of ICD-10 CONCORD, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2013 — Dolbey Systems, a leading provider of Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC), has joined with HRS to deliver expanded ICD-10 consulting and coding services to their fast-growing client base.  Dolbey will offer HRS’s expert staff as a value-added service during the CAC…

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What to do (and what not to do) when your $1B system-wide EHR fails

By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News ‘There really wasn’t any support from management on what was going on.’ The 24-hospital Sutter Health system in Northern California was the talk of the town late August after a software glitch rendered its $1 billion Epic electronic health record system inaccessible to nurses and clinical staff throughout…

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Avoiding the ICD-10 claims backlog

By Tammy Worth for Healthcare Finance News Hospitals must strategize now to keep their revenue cycle from stalling The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recommended that hospitals start testing for ICD-10 in 2013, but so far, many hospitals have not heeded that recommendation. That mistake could ultimately hit hospitals in the wallet. Business…

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