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By Angie Dibble, RHIT for For the Record Remember when we thought of medical charts as inanimate objects, safely tucked away on a dusty shelf in a paper mill known as “Medical Records”? In my prior life, the one I…
By Angie Dibble, RHIT for For The Record Sepsis, encephalopathy, malnutrition, and acute renal failure are examples of diagnoses that often prove vexing for coders and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists. What if the sepsis diagnosis is based on “technically meets…
As health systems work to get the most from their physicians’ EHR charting, experts say it’s important to focus on the right metrics while working toward greater buy-in from doctors. By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News Hospitals and health…
By Robert Pearl, M.D. for Forbes Over the past seven seasons, Game of Thrones fans have demonstrated the ability to spot an emerging threat early on – a quality more leaders in healthcare need to possess. If you’ve tuned into…
Article by Marina Kravtsova. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on Sep 29, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Over the past nine months, the clinical documentation improvement (CDI) team that I represent has been recruited to perform so-called…
By Jim Keener for Health IT Outcomes A recent survey of healthcare executives revealed employee awareness as their greatest cybersecurity concern. Even if comprehensive educational programs are already in place, it can be difficult for hospital administrators to stay on top of…
By Avery Comarow and Ben Harder for U.S. News and World Report U.S. News ranks the top 20 hospitals in the nation, plus the best hospitals in each state and metro area. Somewhere in America, at a pace of about…
By David Pittman, With help from Darius Tahir for Politico BIDEN, EPIC TALK MEANING OF ‘EASY TO UNDERSTAND’: Former Vice President Joe Biden took to task an Epic executive who questioned during a January meeting of the Cancer Moonshot why patients…
Article by Steven Robinson, MS, PA, RN, CDIP. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on April 26, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be…
By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality Federal health officials withdrew a proposal to require healthcare facility accreditors to publicly release details on safety issues they encounter during inspections of hospitals and other healthcare facilities, according to…