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Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review In the past decade or so, researchers have piloted more and more studies exploring artificial intelligence’s potential to transform healthcare for the better, including reducing workflow inefficiencies, predicting future health outcomes and speeding up…
By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine will most likely bring about the most rapidly developed vaccine in history, but uncertainties still abound when it comes to a potential vaccine’s effectiveness, safety and ability to…
Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s ASC Review compiled a timeline of significant medical coding updates that have been proposed or implemented so far this year: January CMS began paying for certain angioplasty and stenting procedures in ASCs on Jan. 1, under…
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA for For the Record When COVID-19 hit, Joe Naretto, MHA, RHIA, senior director of HIM at Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, was faced with the task of transitioning 80 full-time employees anchored onsite at…
By Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News It’s been a stressful time, to say the least, for hospital chief information officers and other IT professionals across industry. The COVID-19 crisis has put immense pressure on the need to optimize systems and…
By Staff at Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review compiled 40 large health systems by number of hospitals and 60 large hospitals by bed count. This list was developed based on information as of September 2020. Note: Hospitals and health…
Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a prediction model to help clinicians forecast if a coronavirus patient’s conditions are likely to worsen. To develop the model, the researchers used data collected from 827 COVID-19…
From Advisory Board Los Alamos County, New Mexico is the healthiest community in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report‘s 2020 Healthiest Communities Rankings, which lists counties and county equivalents that score highly on 10 health-related criteria. Methodology For…
By Selena Chavis for For the Record Is it time for health care organizations to start thinking about it? On the ICD-11 front, two significant milestones occurred last year: The World Health Organization (WHO) officially released the 11th edition of…
From For the Record The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published an update to the CPT code set that includes two code additions for reporting medical services sparked by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The update to…