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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…