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By Laura Landro for The Wall Street Journal The days of the hospital as we know it may be numbered. In a shift away from their traditional inpatient facilities, health-care providers are investing in outpatient clinics, same-day surgery centers, free-standing emergency rooms and microhospitals, which offer as few as eight beds for overnight stays. They…
By Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer for ICD10 Monitor The World Health Organization (WHO) will be releasing the 11th Revision to the International Classification of Diseases, or ICD-11, this May. The WHO and many of its 194-member countries have been working on this since 2007. As with ICD-10,…
By Terry Fletcher BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMCSC, CMCS, ACS-CA, SCP-CA for ICD10 Monitor For cardiology, the focus of ICD-10 is generally on increased specificity and documenting the downstream effects of the patient’s condition. Acute myocardial infarction, or what is more commonly known as AMI, had a definition change when the nation’s healthcare system…
By Steve Kraus for CNBC Apple made a big splash in health care circles this past week when it announced that the company is entering the personal health record space with Apple Health, a new feature that will interface with electronic health records at a dozen hospitals. For the past two years, Apple has been…
By Deborah Grider, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-I, CPC-P, CPMA, CEMC, CCS-P, CDIP, Certified Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner for ICD10 Monitor Questions abound when reporting critical care services. Reporting Adult Critical care can be complicated. It is not only the coding but the rules and that go along with critical care. Many questions come up when reporting…
KLAS Research is a healthcare information technology data and insights company providing the industry with accurate, honest and impartial research on the software and services used by providers and payers worldwide. Every year, KLAS collects evaluations from healthcare providers to rank vendors across several categories. This year, Dolbey is honored to announce that KLAS has…
Three questions to consider when evaluating a clinical documentation improvement program. By Lisa A. Eramo, MA for For the Record Review the record. Query the physician. Obtain the diagnosis. Repeat. Does this clinical documentation improvement (CDI) workflow sound familiar? Productivity is the hallmark of a good program. Or is it? On the surface, CDI specialists…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare Finance News Natural language processing technology is being integrated with electronic health records and finding its way into the big data and analytics realms, often focusing on enhancing provider workflow and clinical documentation. And for the last few years, tech vendors including 3M, Apixio, Dolbey Systems, Health Fidelity, Linguamatics and…
For HIM and CDI professionals, 2018 looks to offer a gift of the tremendous opportunity for success. By Bonnie S. Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS for ICD10 Monitor For movie buffs, the film Darkest Hour offers a tremendous view into the early days of World War II, when the fate of Western Europe hangs on…
By Naseem S. Miller for Orlando Sentinel The number of babies who were exposed to opioids in the womb jumped by 200 percent in Florida between 2015 and 2016 — to more than 2,500 cases — the biggest spike in the past decade, according to state data. But the number of newborns statewide who were…