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By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review The San Jose (Calif.) Police Department used heart rate data from a murder victim’s Fitbit to determine when she died and ultimately capture the man charged with killing her, The New York Times reports. A co-worker found 67-year-old Karen Navarra dead in her home on Sept. 13. Ms.…
By Chris Simons MS, RHIA for ACDIS Blog As the coder or CDI specialist reviews the documentation, he or she will identify opportunities to clarify diagnoses or even to identify conditions that were not previously documented but may be possible given the patient’s presentation. By querying the physician while the patient is still in the…
By Rachel Tirabassi It’s about time the burnout syndrome is making headlines in healthcare. But what exactly is it? An article published by JAMA, defines burnout as “an individual losing enthusiasm for work (emotional exhaustion), treating people as if they were objects (depersonalization), and having a sense that their work is no longer meaningful (low…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review In June, the CDC published 29 ICD-10 codes to help providers document sex and labor exploitation. The human-trafficking-related codes are a collaboration between Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative and clinicians at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital’s Freedom Clinic. They will take effect in…
By Sarah Elkins for For the Record Following a study which noted front-end speech recognition’s failure to increase physician satisfaction with their jobs, experts contemplate how to rectify the situation. In May, KLAS Research published the findings of a 12-month evaluation of organizations with high adoption rates of front-end speech recognition tools. The study focused…
Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Almost a quarter of healthcare security directors at hospitals think their facilities are unprepared for incidents involving a shooter. More than twice as many hospitals have experienced physical violence incidents as compared to hacking and cyberattacks, according to a research study among top security directors at healthcare facilities. The report shows 47…
By Susan Morse for Healthcare IT News Apple is looking to hire engineers to develop a custom chip for more sophisticated health information tracking and applications, according to a CNBC report. CNBC said it got the information from a job posting from Apple’s Health Sensing hardware team. The July 10 job summary is for sensor ASIC architects to design,…
By Marshall Allen for CNBC To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren’t very compelling. A handful of companies pitching “lifestyle” data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like “social determinants of health.” But dig deeper and the implications of what they’re selling might give many patients…
By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review Vermont is the best state for healthcare, according to an analysis by WalletHub. To identify the best and worst states for healthcare, WalletHub analysts compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia on 40 key metrics of healthcare cost, accessibility and outcomes. The metrics range from physicians…
Jayne O’Donnell and Ken Alltucker for CNBC Retired Air Force Colonel David Antoon agreed to pay $100 to settle what were once felony charges for emailing his former Cleveland Clinic surgeon articles the doctor found threatening and posting a list on Yelp of all the surgeries the urologist had scheduled at the same time as the one that left…