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150 great places to work in healthcare – 2015

By Staff at Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2015 edition of “150 great places to work in healthcare.” The 2015 list includes both healthcare providers — medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, home health providers and hospitals and health systems — along with other types of healthcare-specific companies, such as consulting…

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ICD-10’s five stages of grief

By Hannah Galvin, MD for Healthcare IT News As ICD-10 draws closer, you may feel like you’re stuck in one of the five stages of grief: Denial: “ICD-what? Excuse me, I have patients to see.” Anger: “I don’t have time for ICD-10! The government obviously doesn’t understand the practice of medicine. Why would anyone ever…

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The Medical Bill Mystery

By Elisabeth Rosenthal for The New York Times I CONFESS I filed this column several weeks late in large part because I had hoped first to figure out a medical bill whose serial iterations have been arriving monthly like clockwork for half a year. As medical bills go, it’s not very big: $225, from a…

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Technologies to Support Clinical Documentation Improvement

By Dr. Jonathan Elion, MD, FACC for HealthTECH Zone The Photographic Painting The value of a new technology is often not understood for many years after its invention. The first film cameras (remember those?) were initially used to capture landscapes, still life studies and portraits. In that regard, they were acting as a “photographic painting”,…

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WEDI: ICD-10 Delay Hurt Health Care Industry’s Preparedness

By iHealthBeat The ICD-10 implementation delay has negatively affected stakeholders’ progress preparing for the new code sets, according to a survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Healthcare IT News reports (McCann, Healthcare IT News, 4/6). Background U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets by Oct. 1…

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