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Clinical Documentation Integrity: Overcoming Query Challenges

By By Susan Chapman, MA, MFA, PGYT for For The Record A dozen best practices to help coding and CDI professionals create effective queries for accurate and comprehensive medical documentation. Coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) professionals use queries to ensure diagnoses and procedures documented in the health record accurately reflect patient care. However, there…

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AI Adoption in Healthcare: ‘You Need to Trust But Verify’ Says CIO

By Christopher Cheney for HealthLeadersMedia “If you do not have the right clinical champion, I don’t care if it is the best AI in the world, it will be dead on arrival.” KEY TAKEAWAYS When it comes to adoption of AI tools, health systems and hospitals need to be cautiously optimistic, says Doug King, MBA, senior…

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The Most Common Career Change for Nurses

By Barry Bottino for Nurse.com Many nurses, whether after years of dedicated service or newly into the profession, find themselves considering a career change.  Despite the rewards of patient care and professional achievements, nursing can be physically and emotionally demanding.  Whether driven by burnout, the desire for new challenges, or the pursuit of a better…

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Nurse Burnout: Supporting Your Colleagues

By Zelda Meeker for Nurse.com In nursing, burnout is a common yet often overlooked issue. The Nurse.com 2024 Nurse Salary and Work-Life Report highlighted the prevalence of this condition with 59% of nurses sharing they’ve experienced burnout in the last two years.  Research shows that nurse burnout can manifest in physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms, impacting…

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CMS updates annual Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings

From CDI Strategies CMS recently updated the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings on its Care Compare website and Provider Data Catalog. These ratings are assigned annually based on safety of care, readmission rates, patient experience, timeliness of care and mortality rates by CMS, the American Hospital Association (AHA) reported. Hospitals are judged on 46 measures…

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What Epic’s new feature means for hospitals

By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review Epic Systems has introduced a new data-sharing feature aimed at enhancing patient access to health information and improving interoperability for healthcare providers. Launched on August 1 for Epic clients, the feature allows patients using applications such as health coaching or medication reminder apps to import their health records…

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How UC Davis Health Is Bolstering Neurodivergent Talent With Pilot Program

By Jasmyne Ray for HealthLeaders The program offers a career path for neurodivergent individuals, enabling them to be more independent. KEY TAKEAWAYS Medical coders are an integral part of revenue cycle operations. But with the ongoing workforce shortage and the level of expertise needed for the role, the talent pool of qualified candidates is small.…

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The biggest issue for CFOs in 2024

By Madeline Ashley for Becker’s Hospital Review From operating margins still causing challenges for many health systems to consistent worries about healthcare workforce shortages, the current economy has trumped cost reduction concerns for CFOs in 2024, according to a new Deloitte annual survey. Deloitte’s annual survey of healthcare financial leaders has been conducted since 2020 by the Deloitte Center…

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