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By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Over the pandemic, many patients have avoided going to the hospital unless absolutely necessary, citing fears of contracting COVID-19. But a new study suggests those fears may have been overblown. Rates of acquiring COVID-19 during a hospital stay are low, with only about 1.8% of patients contracting…
By Kat Jercich ofr Healthcare IT News A recent article in Health Affairs called the electronic health record an “underrated medium” for improving care and pushed for the standardization of structures for documenting disabilities. “In medical school, we spend a lot of time learning how to take a patient’s medical history. We practice asking specifically worded questions…
By Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance News Healthgrades has released its list of the 250, 100 and 50 best hospitals for clinical excellence. The list of 250 represents the top 5% in the nation for 2022. When culled down to lists of the top 100 and top 50, these hospitals represent the top 2% and 1%, respectively, of hospitals nationwide. The top…
By Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News The World Health Organization released a policy brief this past week aimed at combating age-related bias in health-related artificial intelligence tools. The brief, “Ageism in artificial intelligence for health,” proposes a wide range of measures to ensure older people are effectively engaged in the processes, technologies and services affecting…
The Dolbey Fusion CAC computer-assisted coding solution has been ranked Best in KLAS for the sixth year in a row. Dolbey’s Fusion CAC is utilized by hospitals and health systems to streamline the entire revenue cycle process. Fusion CAC uses a single engine that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced machine learning (ML) technologies to…
From the ACDIS CDI Blog Because every chart is coded before being sent to payers, it’s important that CDI specialists have a working knowledge of code sets and coding rules. The inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final ruling, traditionally updated annually, has been changed to update twice a year on April 1 and October 1 beginning…
By Sarah Sarvis Milla, M.D., FAAP, and Hansel J. Otero, M.D., FAAP for AAP News Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in many health care environments and even more so in technology-reliant subspecialties such as radiology. Most radiology departments already deploy complex software to manage increasingly large databases and a completely digital workflow. While…
By Gabrielle Masson for Becker’s Hospital Review Demand for N95s, KN95s and KF94s has skyrocketed, and, unfortunately, so have counterfeit masks. In 2020, ECRI reported 60 to 70 percent of KN95s it tested didn’t properly filter 95 percent of particles as they claimed, according to The New York Times. In the same year, U.S. agencies seized 21.2…
Adi Gaskell for Forbes A common concern surrounding automation in recent years is that it will result in widescale job losses as the work previously done by people is taken over by technology. Of course, the reality doesn’t really support this narrative, and indeed, companies that invest in technology often end up employing more people as…
By Alan Condon for Becker’s Hospital Review For more than a decade, family physicians have been the most heavily recruited physicians in the U.S., but specialist recruiting increased significantly last year as COVID-19 caused a decrease in office visits, according to Physicians Thrive. The advisory group compiled data from physicians across the U.S. and published…