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Opinion: It’s Your Right To See Your Medical Records. It Shouldn’t Be This Hard To Do

Harlan Krumholz from NPR At a time when many insurers and health information technology companies are busily assembling databases of hundreds of millions of medical records, Americans find it difficult to get access to their own. If you try to get yours, be prepared for confusing policies, ill-informed staff, wasted time and high costs. Even…

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6 Expectations Millennials Have For Their Healthcare

By Joe Harpaz for Forbes You may have seen recent news headlines proclaiming that millennials are killing napkins. Or that they’re ending plastic drinking straws, the beer industry or even homeownership. While these stories may be a bit extreme, there’s no doubt millennials are shaking things up, considering they make up nearly 23% of the…

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Surprise medical bills becoming more frequent and costly

By Shelby Livingston for Modern Healthcare Surprise out-of-network billing and related patients’ costs are increasing among inpatient admissions and emergency department visits to in-network hospitals, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Stanford University researchers found that from 2010 through 2016, 39% of 13.6 million trips to the ED at an in-network…

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3 steps to prepare for the transition to ICD-11

By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review The 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases was presented at the World Health Assembly in May and is slated to take effect in January 2022. To prepare for the transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11, softwareadvice.com recommended that healthcare providers: Become familiar with new ICD-11 codes and chapters,…

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Dolbey Mentioned in Journal of AHIMA’s June 2019 Issue

The Journal of AHIMA published an article in the June 2019 issue called “Computer-Assisted Coding Reality Check” by Mary Butler. The article takes a closer look at the impact of Computer Assisted- Coding (CAC) by examining studies, interviewing HIM professionals and Dolbey’s Product Manager, Heather Eminger-Gladden, CCS. What is CAC? How does Computer- Assisted Coding…

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Physician burnout costs industry $4.6B annually

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Physician burnout costs the healthcare industry between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion each year, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers calculated a baseline of about $4.6 billion in costs from turnover, reduced productivity and other burnout-related factors. The study…

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Nearly half of physicians think EHRs have decreased quality of care, survey finds

By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review More physicians (44 percent) believe that EHRs have hurt quality of care in their workplace than the 40 percent who said the technology has improved it, according to a recent Medscape poll released May 1. Medscape surveyed 273 U.S. clinicians — 207 physicians and 66 nurses and advanced practice…

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