September 2021

Battling misinformation on TikTok has become ‘2nd job’ for some physicians

By Hannah Mitchell for Becker’s Hospital Review Physicians are going beyond their job duties to get on TikTok to debunk COVID-19 misinformation, according to a Sept. 28 11 Alive report. TikTok is reaching 1 billion users each month, which can make disproving dangerous cures, treatments and myths critical for COVID-19 pandemic recovery. Jayne Morgan, MD, the executive…

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Kaiser Permanente researchers push the envelope with AI and NLP

By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News Although healthcare is squarely in the era of big data and data analytics, it remains difficult in clinical research to accurately identify patients with complex conditions like valvular heart disease through medical records. THE PROBLEM And if researchers cannot identify these patients, they cannot study them, track practice…

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7 ways hospitals are verifying employee vaccine cards to combat fakes

By Hannah Mitchell for Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals are implementing several procedures to verify COVID-19 vaccine cards submitted by employees, as some employees have been linked to using fake cards to bypass vaccine mandates. Several employees at Newark, N.J.-based University Hospital have been fired for submitting fake vaccine cards to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. New…

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Hospitals projected to lose $54 billion in net income this year

By Susan Morse for Healthcare News Higher expenses for labor, drugs and supplies as well as a continuation of delayed care during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is projected to cost hospitals an estimated $54 billion in net income over the course of this year, according to a new Kaufman Hall analysis released by the American Hospital Association. Hospitals…

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Provider team burnout: undoing the human and organizational damage

By Sam Hanna for Healthcare IT News  This is the third article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. As noted in the introduction to this series, each of these articles will define an issue, consider the problem and its implications to healthcare, and then present…

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Dolbey Expands Their #1 Best in KLAS Fusion CAC Solution with Single Path Coding

Dolbey adds Single Path Coding to their Fusion CAC solution that is already ranked #1 Best in KLAS for the 5th consecutive year. Single Path Coding is a consolidation of facility and professional fee coding to streamline processes, maximize coder output, and reduce costs by minimizing duplicated efforts. Some Dolbey Fusion CAC customers were looking…

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Northwell Health’s nurse choir in America’s Got Talent final

By Makenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review A choir of nurses from Northwell Health was one of five groups to compete in the America’s Got Talent finals Sept. 14. The Northwell Health Nurse Choir formed last year when nurses across the system’s 23 hospitals came together to perform virtually for a nonprofit initiative, Nurse Heroes. The choir made its…

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AMA Releases 2022 CPT Code Set

From For the Record Magazine Innovative work to meet the urgent public health need for streamlined reporting and tracking of COVID-19 vaccinations is presented in the release of the 2022 set published by the American Medical Association (AMA). The annual update to the CPT code set incorporates a series of 15 vaccine-specific codes that are…

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How do you monitor and demonstrate the efficacy of your CDI program?

[spb_row element_name=”Row” wrap_type=”content-width” parallax_image_height=”content-height” parallax_image_movement=”fixed” parallax_image_speed=”0.5″ bg_video_loop=”yes” parallax_video_height=”window-height” parallax_video_overlay=”none” row_overlay_opacity=”0″ row_col_pos=”default” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] How do you monitor and demonstrate the efficacy of your CDI program? Increased productivity Reduced DRG mis-matches Improved quality scores Increased review rate Reduced downstream denials In the white paper “Unleashing the Power of Your CDI Data” Dee Lang, RHIT, CCDS,…

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