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By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance News While the healthcare industry has been much-lauded for continued job growth, adding jobs on a consistent basis, experts say that economic boost may be a double-edged sword, bolstering one of the most…
By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare IT News Last month, LexisNexis brought together 30 high-level executives, most of whom were CIOs from hospitals, nursing homes and health plans of all sizes from across the county to find out what data-related…
Article by Elena Miller, MPH, RHIA, CCS. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on April 11, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Thinking back on the days when it became clear that the ICD-10 classification system was definitely…
By Christina Farr for CNBC Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc., takes part in an education-focused event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 27, 2018. Apple wants to bring consumers’ medical information,…
Article by Ron Hedges. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on March 27, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Can texting get a healthcare provider in trouble? The answer to that question, like many other legal ones,…
By Glenn Krauss, RHIA, BBA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, CCDS, C-CDI, PCS, FCS, C-CDAM for ICD10 Monitor Moving beyond CDI to optimize reimbursement requires returning to an optimal and sustainable level of achievable excellence. A well-guided, thought-out, directed mission is paramount…
By Alyssa Rege for Becker’s Hospital Review Boston-based Harvard Medical School took the top spot among U.S. News & World Report‘s “Best Medical Schools” for research for 2019. U.S. News‘ rankings for the top medical schools for research and primary…
By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance Healthgrades revealed the hospitals which have earned it’s America’s 50 and 100 Best Hospitals for 2018. The award winners represent the top 1 and 2 percent of hospitals in the country, and have…
By Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer for ICD10 Monitor The World Health Organization (WHO) will be releasing the 11th Revision to the International Classification of Diseases, or ICD-11, this May. The WHO and…
By Angie Comfort, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P for For the Record In October 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency to focus on the opioid crisis. Analyzing data from 2000 to 2015, HHS…