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Executives expect AI to transform healthcare within 3 years

By Nick Paul Taylor for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: More than two-thirds of healthcare executives think artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies will extensively impact their organizations over the next three years. The new Accenture survey suggests executives will expand quickly beyond the experiments that make up most of the engagement with new digital…

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CMS unveils ICD-10-CM code changes — 273 added, 21 deleted

By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS posted changes to the ICD-10-CM codes for fiscal year 2020. Five key points: There were 71,932 ICD-10-CM codes for fiscal year 2019. The update includes 72,184 codes. CMS added 273 codes, deleted 21 codes and made 30 revisions to codes pertaining to various treatments. Additions included codes related to orbital wall…

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Physician viewpoint: Hospitals exploit the goodwill of physicians, nurses

Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review As healthcare becomes increasingly corporatized, administrators lean on the good faith of clinicians to get the job done — and they may be leaning too hard, according to an op-ed published in The New York Times by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New…

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Healthcare better for women than other industries, but C-suite rep lags

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Healthcare has less gender disparity than other U.S. industries, but still has room for improvement at executive levels. A new McKinsey report found healthcare is one of the best industries for working women in several dimensions. Women are better represented at all levels than in other sectors,…

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Dolbey Mentioned in Journal of AHIMA’s June 2019 Issue

The Journal of AHIMA published an article in the June 2019 issue called “Computer-Assisted Coding Reality Check” by Mary Butler. The article takes a closer look at the impact of Computer Assisted- Coding (CAC) by examining studies, interviewing HIM professionals and Dolbey’s Product Manager, Heather Eminger-Gladden, CCS. What is CAC? How does Computer- Assisted Coding…

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From cleaners to the top exec, the average salary for 30 hospital jobs

By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review Across the nation’s more than 6,000 hospitals, chief executives made an average annual salary of $242,550, compared to phlebotomists, who made an average of $34,750 per year, according to Business Insider. Here is the average annual salary of 30 key hospital jobs, presented in ascending order of compensation:…

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Highest-paid CEOs in 2018: Who made the list from healthcare

By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review Thirty-two healthcare CEOs made The New York Times and Equilar’s 2018 ranking of highest-paid CEOs in 2018. Of those 32, three executives led some of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital systems: King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. The full…

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Physician burnout costs industry $4.6B annually

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Physician burnout costs the healthcare industry between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion each year, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers calculated a baseline of about $4.6 billion in costs from turnover, reduced productivity and other burnout-related factors. The study…

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CMS home-based primary care model yields mixed results

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: A CMS innovation center demonstration that pairs payment incentives with a home-based primary care delivery model showed mixed results in terms of Medicare cost savings for chronically ill beneficiaries, according to data from the first four years of the test. The reward payment structure had some success…

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