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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…
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,…
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…
By Austin Cameron for Healthcare Finance News It is now official: you must wait until 2015 to use ICD-10 code W6112XA – struck by macaw. President Barack Obama has indeed signed the SGR patch legislation – which includes another delay of ICD-10 implementation, to Oct. 1, 2015. Reactions within the healthcare community to news of…
By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News Some 5,100 patients treated at Kaiser Permanente were sent HIPAA breach notification letters Friday after a KP research computer was found to have been infected with malicious software. Officials say the computer was infected with the malware for more than two and a half years before being discovered…
By Joe Carlson, Joseph Conn and Andis Robeznieks for Modern Healthcare Executives at Catholic Health Initiatives had to roll out new electronic health-record systems across 89 hospitals nationwide while meeting the Oct. 1 federal deadline for implementing the complex new ICD-10 coding system. They knew the two big health information technology tasks couldn’t both be…
Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on March 31, 2014 and is republished here with permission. The Senate voted today to approve a bill that will delay the implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS by at least one year. The bill now moves to…
By Greg Slabodkin for HealthData Management By a voice vote, the House of Representatives today approved legislation that includes a provision to delay the ICD-10 implementation deadline by one year to Oct. 1, 2015. Introduced on the House floor this morning, H.R. 4302, Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, also amends the Social Security…
Written by Helen Gregg for Becker’s Hospital Review Lying on blankets at an outdoor concert in Madison, Wis., last July, a group of health IT professionals were on their smartphones, finding and laughing at some of the more unusual and seemingly unnecessary ICD-10 codes. The idea of making an illustrated children’s book using the codes…
By Katie Wike for Health IT Outcomes Another in a long list of studies shows most doctors are dissatisfied with their EHR, but they don’t want to return to paper records either According to a RAND survey, 80 percent of doctors say they are dissatisfied with EHRs. No surprise really, since in November a survey…