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ICD-10| Impact of ICD-10 in Healthcare | Policy, News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant

Medical Transcription & EHRs: Remaining Atop Technology and Industry Changes

by Fred Pennic 07/02/2012 1 Comment

A vital aspect of health care, medical transcription is a multi-billion-dollar industry, which is undergoing significant changes. Medical transcription has been a fundamental and necessary aspect of the healthcare industry for a long time. However, the continuing development of transcription-related technology is changing the way medical transcription works. To adapt and remain efficient, healthcare-affiliated institutions must adopt these new technologies as they come. Medical transcription
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Interview: Understanding Clinical Language Understanding with Carina Edwards, VP Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare

by Fred Pennic 06/14/2012 Leave a Comment

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There is a growing demand to extract structured, "actionable" information from unstructured (dictated) medical documents. Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology allows a computer to read and understand electronic free text and extract data for use in countless applications across the healthcare spectrum.  To understand and learn more about CLU technology, HIT Consultant spoke with Carina Edwards, VP, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare for a deep dive into: CLU
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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary

by Fred Pennic 06/12/2012 Leave a Comment

Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient
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Video: How to Fill Coding Documentation Gaps When Converting to ICD-10

by Fred Pennic 06/11/2012 Leave a Comment

Here is a recent ICD-10 Summit Wrap up video interview with Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, vice president of HIM consulting services at UASI talks about coding documentation gaps and the best ways to fill them in converting to ICD-10. Stanfill provides the following tips on addressing coding documentation gaps: Identifying high risk areas suchas surgical procedures for amputations must be coded as mid, high, or low in order code the case Improve physician/clinician
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Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) and MAC: Failure and Success in 2012

by Fred Pennic 06/07/2012 Leave a Comment

 By Lori Brocato, Audit Product Manager, HealthPort  Lori Brocato, Audit Product Manager, HealthPort writes about the failures and successes of  Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) The latest CMS figures report nearly $600 million was recouped from healthcare providers in the first quarter of 2012 alone. Added to earlier overpayments, providers have “given back” over $1B since the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program began. The success
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7 Tips to Get Physicians On Board with ICD-10

by Fred Pennic 05/25/2012 1 Comment

Written by Deborah Robb, BSHA, CPC, Physician Management Consultant for TrustHCS: The American Medical Association, not satisfied with HHS’s push-back of the ICD-10 deadline to October 1, 2014, has protested again. Perhaps one of the reasons for their continued dissent is lack of guidance and support. While much has been published about the implementation of ICD-10 for hospitals,
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Video: 99 Problems… and ICD-10 is one!

by Fred Pennic 05/14/2012 5 Comments

nuesoft

Making the transition to the ICD-10 code set is a massive undertaking. It will be costly, time consuming, and hardest on small practices. Doctors have to keep up with running their practice while trying to figure out all the government regulations. With frustrations mounting over the issues caused by ANSI 5010 transition and the impending ICD-10 transition, Nuesoft wanted to give a fun outlet for doctors. In the following video parody, Nuesoft employees rap about frustrations over ICD-10
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Video:Optum & UPMC Collaborate to Launch CDI Module Within Enterprise Computer-Assisted Coding Platform

by Fred Pennic 05/12/2012 Leave a Comment

With high payer scrutiny on healthcare costs, hospitals need to improve care management, coding, quality of care, and documentation efforts. A Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program is an essential component to be competitive in today's environment.
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Understanding SNOMED CT – the What and Why?

by Fred Pennic 04/23/2012 Leave a Comment

Written by Dr. Peter Johnson, Co-Founder/Chief Terminology Director from Clinithink Statisticians have been collecting and classifying causes of disease for hundreds of years. In fact, the well-known ICD system started as a classification of causes of death in 1855. Since then, the focus has shifted to include classifying all aspects of care for many different purposes – from billing to early disease warnings, epidemiology, health care planning and point-of-care decision support.
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Video:3M Discusses Partnership with Nuance Healthcare Solutions

by Fred Pennic 04/19/2012 2 Comments

Video interview with Richard Woliniewicz, Ph.D, Director NLP Advanced Technology at 3M HIS speaking during HIMSS12 about 3M's strategic partnership with Nuance Healthcare solutions
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