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By Alyssa Rege and Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review Fortune named 16 healthcare companies to its 21st annual list of the best companies to work for in the U.S. To compile the list, Fortune gathered feedback from over 315,000 employees across the country. To be considered, companies needed to have at least 1,000 employees…
Christina Farr for CNBC Amol Utrankar was in his second year of medical school and working a shift at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, when a supervisor asked him to obtain a new patient’s medical records. Utrankar, who was 22 at the time, needed to get the records from a smaller community hospital, where…
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 Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News Google AI has made a breakthrough: successfully predicting cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and strokes simply from images of the retina, with no blood draws or other tests necessary. This is a big step forward scientifically, Google AI officials said, because it is not imitating an existing…
By Angie Comfort, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P for For the Record In October 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency to focus on the opioid crisis. Analyzing data from 2000 to 2015, HHS estimated that 91 Americans had died of opioid overdoses each day, and the numbers have…
Cincinnati, Ohio – Dolbey and Company, Inc. (Dolbey) Best in KLAS for Speech Recognition 2012-2016 and Category Leader – Front-end Speech Recognition for Imaging 2018 announces its new cloud-based speech recognition product – Fusion Narrate™ powered by nVoq™. Providers can dictate directly into any application, without the need for integration, and immediately benefit from many…
By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Hospital Review Healthgrades named the 250 recipients of its 2018 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence Jan. 23. Hospitals recognized with this award performed among the top 5 percent in the nation for at least 21 of 32 inpatient conditions and procedures analyzed by Healthgrades. “Consumers should prioritize hospitals and…
By Jessica Davis for Healthcare IT News Women innovators from CMS, NASA, IBM Global Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic and Health 2.0 — among a long list of others — will share insights from interoperability to patient engagement at the annual health IT conference in Las Vegas. This year’s CES Conference, one of the biggest technology conferences…
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…