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By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces from disparate systems and people. Many patients coming in with COVID-19 related pneumonia are demonstrating…
By Lauran Neergaard for AP News Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it’s a vexing decision. “Not everybody’s going to like the answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National…
By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review West Virginia had the highest percentage of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the last week of June, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The data is from the Household Pulse Survey 2020, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Finding, accessing, and paying for healthcare in America requires so much work that half of consumers have avoided seeking care altogether, a new survey has found. More than two-thirds of consumers said every step of the healthcare process is a chore. Most said they don’t know how much a…
By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review Northwell Health rapidly developed a care program to treat more than 150 severely ill COVID-19 patients at home in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases in New York this spring, reports The New York Times. The home care program relies on a team of specialists who use telehealth…
CONCORD, Ohio, July 9, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Dolbey is a leading provider of medical coding and billing software that drives greater accuracy and high productivity in medical coding by using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. KLAS Research has awarded Dolbey the Category Leader designation for Computer-Assisted Coding for four straight years. Prior to COVID-19, the…
By Jackie Drees, Laura Dyrda and Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The need for technology and digital capabilities accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the importance of data and virtual monitoring to care for all patients while hospitals focused on patients with the virus. Since March, Becker’s health IT team has spoken with several…
By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review U.S. News & World Report named Boston Children’s Hospital the best hospital in the nation for its 2020-21 pediatric rankings. To create the 2020-21 list, U.S. News & World Report gathered clinical survey data from nearly 200 medical centers. Patient safety, infection prevention and nurse staffing are among the measures U.S. News evaluates. The…
Dolbey is a leading provider of cloud- and premise-based speech recognition solutions for healthcare, with two premier speech recognition products – Fusion Narrate® powered by nVoq™ and Fusion SpeechEMR® powered by SpeechMagic™. In the Speech Recognition: Front-End EMR Segment Highlight report, Fusion Narrate received the highest overall score. KLAS Research is a healthcare information technology…
Marty Stempniak for Radiology Business When a patient with possible COVID-19 presents at the radiology department, it can trigger a number of urgent steps that include isolation, testing, strict cleaning protocols and the use of scarce personal protective equipment. Wanting to provide physicians with a clear process to report and launch these next steps, Harvard…