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By David Lim and Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive For one week in sunny Orlando, Florida, more than 43,000 health IT professionals converged in the mammoth Orange Country Convention Center to showcase technological innovations, argue about interoperability, network and pour creativity into their #HealthPolicyValentines tweets. Health IT’s biggest conference of the year ended Friday. As the…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Medical coding is a key component of revenue cycle management. When done efficiently and accurately, it helps ensure hospitals are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 15 things to know about medical coding: AAPC, formerly known as the American Academy of Professional Coders, describes medical coding as “the…
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC for ACDIS CDI Blog If your organization has an inpatient CDI team, decide if outpatient CDI will share the same reporting structure or if the teams should be separate. A shared reporting structure can allow the new outpatient CDI specialists…
By by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog People are human. This goes for clinicians, coders, and for CDI personnel. Mistakes happen. If left unchecked, however, mistakes become habits. Effective CDI programs understand this and take appropriate steps to ensure occasional mistakes don’t become recurring bad habits. Since the structure and…
By Andis Robeznieks for American Medical Association Speech-recognition software is a tool that any size health care organization can use as part of their systematic efforts to improve the quality of the care they deliver and the experience of an office visit for patient and clinician alike. So say two physicians who helped to implement…
By Angie Stewart for Becker’s ASC Review Insurers may wrongly deny a claim and hope providers don’t notice it’s actually a covered service, according to medical coding and billing specialist Steven Verno. Mr. Verno shared the following tip for appealing a non-covered service on LinkedIn: “You need proof that the insurance company is wrong. The…
By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News AI is already having a big impact, but strategic planning is not keeping pace and healthcare organizations need to be proactive about developing tools now. Healthcare executives expect artificial intelligence to be among the most impactful technologies fueling innovation, but few are crafting strategies to advance emerging AI…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review Vishal Bhatia, MD, chief medical information officer at RCCH HealthCare Partners in Brentwood, Tenn., discusses the evolution of his role as CMIO and how artificial intelligence, natural language processing and voice recognition technologies can improve healthcare. Responses are lightly edited for clarity and length. Question: How has your role…
By Greg Slabodkin for Health Data Management While healthcare is experiencing an explosion of interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, medical schools must do a better job of educating future clinicians about the technology. That’s the contention of researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, who published a perspective article on Thursday in…
By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance While a majority of patients say they would consider the technologies to diagnose cancer and recommend treatment, they still fear costs. What Happened A new survey from McKesson and Ipsos revealed widespread openness toward AI and genetic testing as a solution for cancer diagnosis, but concern about cost…