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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…
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…
The American Hospital Association’ Central Office on ICD-10-CM/PCS and American Health Information Management Association answer commonly asked questions about ICD-10-CM coding for COVID-19. Click the link to see their answers:
CONCORD, Ohio, March 3, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Dolbey is a leading provider of medical coding and billing software that drives greater accuracy and higher productivity in medical coding by using artificial intelligence and machine learning. KLAS Research announced that Dolbey was awarded the 2020 Category Leader designation for Computer-Assisted Coding for the fourth year in…
Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review As the U.S. responds to a growing threat of the 2019 novel coronavirus, CMS and other organizations are clarifying how to code for testing and treatment of the disease. Six things to know: CMS created a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code for providers and labs testing patients…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review The amount of time family physicians spend working in the EHR after hours can vary widely, ranging from zero to 33 hours each month, according to a study published in the Family Medicine February 2020 journal issue. University of Arizona College of Medicine researchers analyzed EHR use of 24 family…
By Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP and Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Clinical validation is a process in which diagnoses already written in the chart are reviewed by a clinical documentation specialist to ensure the corresponding clinical indicators and treatment exist alongside them, thereby “validating” the diagnoses. It is…
By Andrea Park for Becker’s Hospital Review Six days before the CDC’s Jan. 6 alert of a flulike outbreak in China, and nine days before the World Health Organization’s Jan. 9 notice, an artificial intelligence-powered platform had already detected and sent warning of the coronavirus outbreak, Wired reports. BlueDot, a global health monitoring platform based in Canada,…
By Johanne Brautigam, RN, BSN, CCDS and Mindy Davis, RHIT, CDIP, CCS, CCDS for ACDIS Blog There are a few key strategies for communication between CDI and coding. Most important, communicate to coding leadership and the coding staff that having a strong working relationship between CDI and coding is a priority. Back this statement up…
Andrea Park for Becker’s Hospital Review Each patient encounter requires an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds in EHR use for physicians, including time spent outside of normal working hours, according to a study of data from Cerner’s analytics platform, the Lights On Network. Here are three key takeaways from the study, which analyzed…