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US News ranks ‘Best Medical Schools 2019’

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 care are part of the publication’s annual “2019 Best Graduate Schools” lists, which recognize the…

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We Won’t Get Value-Based Health Care Until We Agree on What “Value” Means

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 level of value for consumers. If this trio can disrupt the United States’ health care…

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List: Healthgrades reveals America’s Best Hospitals for 2018

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 demonstrated “superior clinical outcomes across the majority of common inpatient conditions and procedures,” the organization…

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1 in 5 health employees willing to sell confidential data: 7 survey insights

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 “Losing the Cyber Culture War in Healthcare,” Accenture surveyed 912 provider and payer organizations across…

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Apple is launching medical clinics to deliver the ‘world’s best health care experience’ to its employees

By Christina Farr for CNBC Apple is launching a group of health clinics called AC Wellness for its employees and their families this spring, according to several sources familiar with the company’s plans. The company quietly published a website, acwellness.com, with more details about its initiative and a careers page listing jobs including primary care doctor, exercise…

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16 healthcare companies named to ‘Fortune 100 Best Places to Work 2018’

By Alyssa Rege and Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review Fortune named 16 healthcare companies to its 21st annual list of the best companies to work for in the U.S. To compile the list, Fortune gathered feedback from over 315,000 employees across the country. To be considered, companies needed to have at least 1,000 employees…

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Fax machines are still common in medicine — and med students are puzzled when forced to use this ancient technology

Christina Farr for CNBC Amol Utrankar was in his second year of medical school and working a shift at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, when a supervisor asked him to obtain a new patient’s medical records. Utrankar, who was 22 at the time, needed to get the records from a smaller community hospital, where…

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How 2018 Impacts ICD-10-CM Cardiology Diagnosis Coding

By Terry Fletcher BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMCSC, CMCS, ACS-CA, SCP-CA for ICD10 Monitor  For cardiology, the focus of ICD-10 is generally on increased specificity and documenting the downstream effects of the patient’s condition. Acute myocardial infarction, or what is more commonly known as AMI, had a definition change when the nation’s healthcare system…

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