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by Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review The state where you live can significantly impact the duration of your life, suggests a new study conducted by the U.S. Burden of Disease Collaborators published in JAMA. For the study, called “The…
By Jessica Kim for Becker’s Hospital Review The majority of patients who access their medical record online use it to view test results, according to an ONC data brief released this month. For the data brief, officials at the ONC analyzed…
Article by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCS, CCDS, CRC. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on March 29, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Is documentation improvement and proper use of ICD-10-CM critical to the nation’s healthcare…
By Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, COPC, CPMA, CPCI, CHPSE, CRC, CDEO, CGSC, CPEDC, CENTC by ICD10 Monitor As coders, we often struggle with assigning the correct codes. There are many gray areas in the guidelines and instructional notes, and sometimes even conflicting…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance The usability of electronic health records may be associated with some safety events in which patients were possibly harmed, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And while…
By Les Masterson for Healthcare Dive Brief: Healthcare prices grew 2.2% in February 2018 compared to the previous February. That was the highest rate increase since January 2012, according to Altarum’s latest Health Sector Economic Indicators. Year-over-year hospital prices increased…
By Michelle M. Wieczorek RN RHIT CPHQ for ICD10 Monitor In this article, the author examines the implications for the capture of Hierarchical Condition Codes (HCCs) in the inpatient setting. By now, most clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs have an…
By Robert C. Pendleton for Harvard Business Review Some health care leaders view with trepidation the new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. But I’m excited because disruption is all about delivering a new…
By Laura Landro for The Wall Street Journal The days of the hospital as we know it may be numbered. In a shift away from their traditional inpatient facilities, health-care providers are investing in outpatient clinics, same-day surgery centers, free-standing…
Written by Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review Nearly one in five healthcare employees would be willing to sell confidential data to unauthorized parties for as little as $500, according to a survey from Accenture. For the report title…