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By ACDIS for CDI Blog In addition to your normal travel essentials, there are a couple more items you should plan to bring with you to the ACDIS conference in Kissimmee, Florida. Business cards: Networking is one of the most important aspects of the conference. Be sure to bring plenty of business cards so you…
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA for For the Record Why Your Hospital’s Reputation Depends—at Least Partially—on Accurate Pneumonia Coding These days, it takes seconds for patients to view mortality and readmissions data on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare website (www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare). With a few clicks of the mouse, they can—and frequently do—draw…
By Charles Corfield for nVoq For many physicians alternative/complementary medicine is a sore point, where magical thinking on the part of patients and unproven/false claims by practitioners lead to significant harm (people die or are severely injured). When it comes to AI, physicians, too, may risk succumbing to magical thinking and could benefit from some…
By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Ethics. My favorite topic! Being a hopelessly optimistic and naïve person, I am often surprised by unethical behavior. I have seen it in management and employees alike, and it always comes as a shock. Once I have identified this behavior in an individual, they…
Kamalika Some by Analytics Insights Speech recognition is the newest technology fad empowered to recognize spoken words, which can further be converted into text. Speech Recognition encapsulates voice recognition, a technology deployed to identify a person based on their voice. AI-powered Speech Recognition has been the toast of offerings among major tech giants. The top-performing…
By Rachel Popa for Becker’s Hospital Review A report from the Commonwealth Fund outlines where healthcare costs are the cheapest and most expensive. The Commonwealth Fund analyzed trends in private-sector health insurance premiums and deductibles for the under 65 population from 2008 to 2017 with data from the federal government’s annual Agency for Healthcare Research…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review asked healthcare leaders to share the factors they believe will pressure hospital finances the most in 2019. Here are their responses, presented alphabetically. Editor’s Note: Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity. Dawn Bulgarella CFO of the UAB Health System (Birmingham, Ala.) Hospital…
By Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS for ACDIS CDI Blog Hiring the best possible CDI specialists is undoubtedly the most crucial piece of the puzzle when forming a new CDI program or expanding an existing one. A CDI specialist is a uniquely qualified individual—this is not a career path for the faint of…
By Jordan Rosenfeld for Modern Economics So much of a physician’s workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and regulatory burdens and EHR hassles, it’s no wonder physicians are burning out in record numbers. Experts in artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: For the first time in more than a year, CMS updated its hospital star ratings. The agency collects the data from its Hospital Quality Initiative programs and the public can view the star ratings on the Hospital Compare website. The American Hospital Association, which has requested a complete termination of the star…