Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall (MSLC) announced today that MSLC is live on Artifact Health's mobile physician query solution to improve workflow for its clinicians and expedite the accurate coding of patient records. Artifact was able to accommodate the hospital’s requirement to implement, integrate with Meditech’s EHR system and go live within four weeks.Optimizing the Physician Query Process for PhysiciansTraditionally, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians, clinical
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AHIMA, AHCA Partner to Train Skilled Nursing Facilities in ICD-10 Coding to Prepare for New Patient Driven Payment Model
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced a collaboration with the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to provide in-depth coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) training programs. The goal of the collaboration is to help professionals in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) prepare for the upcoming payment reimbursement change.New, Value-based Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) Beginning October 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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LifeBridge Health Taps Artifact Health to Streamline Physician Queries
Artifact Health, a Boulder, CO-based mobile platform that streamlines the physician query process, announced today that LifeBridge Health has selected Artifact’s solution to improve workflow for its clinicians and expedite the accurate coding of patient records. Artifact’s solution will be deployed in early spring 2019 starting at Sinai Hospital and Northwest Hospital.Transforming Time-Consuming Physician Query ProcessTraditionally, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians,
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AHIMA, Artifact Health Team Up for Standardized Physician Query Templates
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is teaming up with Artifact Health to provide and maintain a comprehensive library of compliant physician query templates. The physician query templates will be utilized within Artifact’s HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform. Time Consuming Query Process for PhysiciansTypically, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians. With Artifact Health’s mobile platform, physicians respond to a query compliantly in
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Nuance Debuts AI-Driven, Cloud-Based Clinical Documentation Solution
Today at the AHIMA conference, Nuance introduced Nuance CDE One, a cloud-based workflow management, collaboration and insight system designed for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams. Driven by AI-powered capabilities, CDE One enables smarter workflows, and its powerful analytics provide health system executives with key insights into the staff, physician and program performance. CDE One works seamlessly with CDE Triage, Nuance’s cloud-based solution that prioritizes cases requiring
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M*Modal, Enjoin Partner to Enable Physician-Led CDI Consulting Services
M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, and Enjoin, a physician-led clinical documentation integrity solution, today announced a technology-driven CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) advisory solution to help healthcare organizations succeed in risk-based population health. Putting providers at the heart of every HCC (Hierarchical Condition Category) CDI program, this clinically-focused solution provides a holistic view of the patient by combining
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Western Maryland Health Taps Artifact Health to Streamline Physician Query Process
Western Maryland Health System has selected Artifact Health, a mobile platform that streamlines the physician query process to make it fast and easy for physicians to answer queries that improve the quality of patient records, ensure full reimbursement for services, and increase collaboration between clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and coding staff.With the implementation of Artifact Health’s mobile query platform, WMHS physicians can respond to a query compliantly in under a minute
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Nuance Study Reveals Rework Is Root Cause of Staff Burnout in Hospitals
Nuance has unveiled new study data in an infographic about the importance of reducing rework. The healthcare system is built on the premise of rework with clinical documentation specialists and coders going back to the care team for specifications and clarity on clinical documentation, causing physicians to relive their day and rework documentation done previously. Rework is a root cause of staff burnout in hospitals and healthcare systems.As physicians and care teams face mounting pressure and
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Nuance Integrates with Epic EHR to Provide Real-Time Clinical Documentation to Physicians At Point of Care
Nuance Communications and Epic recently announced that they have partnered to deliver computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) capabilities embedded within Epic to provide real-time clinical documentation improvement (CDI) feedback to physicians at the point of care.Nuance-Epic Integration DetailsBy electronically analyzing all relevant patient notes with AI technologies such as deep learning and natural language understanding, Nuance’s CAPD technology automatically identifies clinical
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Video:Optum & UPMC Collaborate to Launch CDI Module Within Enterprise Computer-Assisted Coding Platform
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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