2020

11 medical record snooping cases in 2020

Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review Eleven hospitals and health systems reported instances of EHR snooping by their employees this year, resulting in terminations and other disciplinary actions. HHS’ HIPAA privacy and security rules require hospitals and health systems to invoke sanctions against staff members who violate privacy and security policies such as EHR snooping. However, the…

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Guest post: Counting COVID-19 cases

By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog I sometimes drift through our office space—often deserted now in the era of COVID-19—and think about how the cubicles represent our spot in the healthcare industry. CDI occupies a single cubicle somewhere on the Revenue Cycle’s floor. It’s our own little niche, a “boutique practice”…

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Cover the Revenue Cycle From All Corners

By Susan Chapman for For the Record Health care organizations are increasingly adopting revenue integrity (RI) programs, which, as defined by the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity, are valuable to “prevent recurrence of issues that can cause revenue leakage and/or compliance risks through effective, efficient, replicable processes and internal controls across the continuum of…

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Mayo Clinic CIO says AI has been key to understanding COVID-19

By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News In his opening keynote Tuesday at the HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare Digital Summit, Mayo Clinic CIO Cris Ross enumerated some of the many ways artificial intelligence has been crucial to our evolving understanding of COVID-19. Way back in March, for instance, researchers were already using…

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15 innovation leaders’ most interesting thoughts on health IT in 2020

By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The pandemic has spurred innovation in the health IT space during 2020, as hospitals and health systems find new ways to optimize workflows, use data to improve care delivery and connect patients to healthcare providers virtually. Below are 15 quotes about innovation in health IT that hospital and…

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Guest post: A letter to physicians from their CDI team

by Christine Donnamiller, RN, ACDIS-Approved CDI Apprentice for ACDIS CDI Blog I know it’s not easy. I see you documenting early in the morning, afternoon, and late in the evening. Somewhere in the middle you are holding that patient’s heart by speaking your words to him, speaking with the dying woman’s daughter, setting up home…

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A Tangled Mess

By Monique Griffin for For the Record From sequencing to recognizing manifestations, coding  for COVID-19 is no easy task. When the pandemic emerged, the World Health Organization (WHO), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) scrambled to update codes for the diagnosis, testing, and tracking of COVID-19. Prior…

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‘IT needs to run like magic’: How 3 CIOs expect department collaboration to change over the next year

By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review Healthcare has entered a period of rapid innovation spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving functions such as IT department collaboration taking on new virtual approaches and increased responsibilities among other divisions and executives. Here, three CIOs from hospitals and health systems across the country share their predictions for…

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MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect Covid-19 in asymptomatic individuals

By Cohen Coberly for TechSpot In brief: Though global economies have begun to open up, the Covid-19 virus is still spreading throughout the world, infecting thousands of new people every day. To help curb the spread of the disease, MIT researchers have developed an AI model that can detect the virus’ presence in even asymptomatic…

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The average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 ranges from $51,000 to $78,000, based on age

By Mallory Hackett for Healthcare Finance The average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 patients without insurance or who receive out-of-network care varies greatly by age – from $51,389 for patients between 21- and 40-years-old to $78,569 for patients between 41 and 60 years old, according to updated cost analysis data from FAIR Health. Hospitalization…

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