The updated ICD-10 coding system has brought clinicians very interesting (and, admittedly, slightly humorous) diagnostics entries. As the weather cools, the last leaves fall off the trees and tables get packed with food and family for Thanksgiving, it’s a good time to take a look at some of those codes that will have doctors and patients prepared (for anything) this year.
The following infographic created by PatientKeeper compiles 10 Thanksgiving-themed ICD-10 codes that physicians’ should
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Archives for 2015
4 Ways Samsung Is Leveraging Mobility to Streamline Healthcare
Over the past few years, Mobile health solutions has become an essential part of healthcare – making it easier to engage with patients, streamlining the clinician workflow, improving regulatory compliance and improving healthcare delivery.
In fact, 90 percent of healthcare professionals are utilizing mobile devices within their organizations to engage patients in their healthcare, according to a 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey. For IT departments in healthcare organizations, the biggest
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Pfizer Acquires Allergan for $160B, Biggest Merger in 15 Years
On Monday, drug maker giant Pfizer Inc. announced it would acquire Botox maker Allergan Pic for $160 billion that would create the world's largest drugmaker. The combined company will be known as Pfizer Plc and move its headquarters to Ireland led by current Pfizer CEO Ian Read. With the addition of Botox to its portfolio, Pfizer expects the deal to greatly enhance its branded products business.
The announcement marks the biggest merger in 15 years and has receive heavy criticism from Hilary
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Report: Health Insurers Fueling Digital Health Transformation
Health insurers are actively deploying new types of digital health as a lever for needed transformation in operational efficiency and transformation to more consumer-focused business models, according to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan. As health insurers pivot to new market realities, digital health will be at the center of enabling their transition to new business models dependent upon maximizing consumer engagement and containing financial risk.
While total health IT spending
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5 Hospital Considerations for Implementing an E-Prescribing Solution
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.
On the face of it, the use of computers to order prescriptions seems like a no-brainer. Who, after all, is capable of reading a physician’s handwriting?
But
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Health Crowd Pulls in $2.1M for Secure Messaging to Health Plan Members
HealthCrowd, a unified, end-to-end engagement platform for healthcare has closed $2.1M in additional seed funding led by Startup Capital Ventures, Herlitz Capital, Healthy Ventures, Band of Angels, Berkeley Angel Network, and 37 Angels. The capital will be utilized to accelerate operations to support its increasing demand for enterprise healthcare communications platform for payers.
Founded in 2011, HealthCrowd's unified communications for payers uses text messaging, interactive voice
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Aetna Inks First Pediatric ACO Collaboration
Aetna and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have announced a new accountable care organization (ACO) collaboration designed to improve the quality of care and lower health care costs through more coordinated care. This is Aetna’s first pediatric ACO arrangement.
ACO Agreement Details
Under the contract, members of Aetna commercial plans (up to age 19) in the five-county Philadelphia area and Burlington County, N.J., and who receive care from CHOP physicians, became part of the
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Importance of Secure Messaging in Patient Communication (Infographic)
Secure text messaging solutions, when designed to address the needs of the healthcare organization, its providers and staff, can be an excellent communication mechanism to streamline conversations around patient care. The expected result is shortened response times, less emails and phone tag, improved workflows and overall improved patient care.
For patients, secure text mesaging can help improve patient engagement as well as strengthen the doctor-patient relationship. The infographic
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Hospital Cyber-Attacks Could Be Mitigated through Higher Education
Editor's Note: J.A. Eve Krahe, Ph.D. is the dean of graduate programs for University of Phoenix School of Health Services Administration. Prior to joining University of Phoenix, she served as the director of health care innovation programs at Arizona State University.
In his comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2015, Brian Dishman of Intel Corporation described the “constellation” of health data that surrounds each of us. From diagnostic,
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PwC: Hispanics Are Pioneers in Mobile Health Adoption
Hispanics are pioneers in mobile health adoption and will become primary care’s consumer mavericks, according to a new report from PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI). In the report, "Primary Care in the New Health Economy: Time for a Makeover," HRI finds Hispanics have adopted mobile health at a faster rate than non- Hispanics, as many other patients are still slow to e-mail their physician or refill a prescription by text message.
Hispanics: Primary care’s consumer mavericks
Hispanics
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