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June 2020

3 most common primary care billing codes haven’t changed in recent months

Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review From January to April, the three most common primary care services didn’t change, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Fair Health, a healthcare cost data organization. Here are the three most common primary care billing codes, and their ranking, for January through April 2020: Office outpatient visit, 15 minutes…

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10 best children’s hospitals, ranked by US News

By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review U.S. News & World Report named Boston Children’s Hospital the best hospital in the nation for its 2020-21 pediatric rankings. To create the 2020-21 list, U.S. News & World Report gathered clinical survey data from nearly 200 medical centers. Patient safety, infection prevention and nurse staffing are among the measures U.S. News evaluates. The…

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Dolbey Fusion Narrate receives the highest user score for front-end speech recognition for EMRs in new KLAS 2020 report.

Dolbey is a leading provider of cloud- and premise-based speech recognition solutions for healthcare, with two premier speech recognition products – Fusion Narrate® powered by nVoq™ and Fusion SpeechEMR® powered by SpeechMagic™. In the Speech Recognition: Front-End EMR Segment Highlight report, Fusion Narrate received the highest overall score. KLAS Research is a healthcare information technology…

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How Harvard radiologists rapidly adopted a new reporting structure for possible COVID-19 patients

Marty Stempniak for Radiology Business When a patient with possible COVID-19 presents at the radiology department, it can trigger a number of urgent steps that include isolation, testing, strict cleaning protocols and the use of scarce personal protective equipment. Wanting to provide physicians with a clear process to report and launch these next steps, Harvard…

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Nearly 40% of Americans misused cleaning products trying to kill COVID-19, CDC finds

By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review About 39 percent of Americans report misusing cleaning supplies to prevent coronavirus transmission, including using bleach on food, a new survey shows. The survey, conducted by the CDC, polled 502 U.S. adults in May. Thirty-nine percent of respondents reported intentionally engaging in at least one high-risk practice not recommended…

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