Clinical Documentation

Dolbey to Offer Physician Query Mobile App for CAC and CDI with Artifact Health

Dolbey’s award winning Computer-Assisted Coding application and new Clinical Documentation Improvement offering will now include the power and convenience of mobile physician queries and enhanced query management and reporting through Artifact Health. Dolbey’s Fusion CAC™ is deployed in the medical coding process.  Fusion CAC evaluates the patient chart documentation to suggest diagnostic and procedure codes…

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To Query or Not to Query? That Is the Question

Article byHarvey Bair, RN, PhD, CCDS, CRC. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on April 28, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Do you find yourself wondering what to focus on when querying for ICD-10 specificity? Are you concerned that your organization’s query process may overwhelm providers? You are not alone; the…

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Leapfrog Group Releases 2017 Hospital Grades

By Staff for HealthLeaders Media The five states with the highest percentage of “A” hospitals this spring are Maine, Hawaii, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Idaho. The Leapfrog Group  released its latest “safety grades” Wednesday for the 2,639 hospitals participating in the group’s annual survey. Of that group, 31% (823) earned an “A” and 27% (706) earned a…

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Ransomware and Hacking Attempts against Healthcare Expected to Increase in Severity, Scope

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on November 21, 2016 and is republished here with permission. If it seems like news reports about hacking and ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations are on an uptick. The infamous Department of Health and Human Service’s “wall of shame” confirms this trend.…

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Specialty Societies Say EHR Vendors Are Blocking Their Registry Work

By Darius Tahir for POLITICO Electronic health record companies are obstructing efforts by specialty societies to gather data that are crucial to the Obama administration’s goal of improving health care quality, leaders of the physician groups tell POLITICO. The data are collected in registries, which are organized to track patients and their conditions and procedures…

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1 in 2 Physicians Demoralized, Dissatisfied

By Staff for HealthLeaders Media News Medical doctors are largely overwhelmed by their work and disengaged from key healthcare reform measures such as value-based payments, accountable care organizations, and electronic health records, survey data shows. Half of physicians are disengaged, burned out, and demoralized and plan to either retire, cut back on work hours, or seek…

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EHR-Enabled Fraud Remains a Concern

By Cheryl Branche for Medical Economics Imagine, in an effort to bill a higher fee, a colleague cuts and pastes a complete history and physical examination you wrote in the electronic health record (EHR) of your patient, but forgets to make adjustments based on his/her findings. This is happening with EHRs in hospitals and practices nationwide. While…

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AHIMA Identifies 5 Recurrent Mistakes in ICD-10 Coding

By Brooke Murphy for Becker’s Hospital CFO As coders grow and mature in their knowledge of and experience with ICD-10, it’s critical hospital administrators recognize best practices and pinpoint coding deficiencies for continued improvement. H.I.M. ON CALL chairman and CEO Manny Peña and CIOX Health coder Tammy Ree shared with the American Health Information Management…

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CMS Eases Meaningful Use Requirements in Proposed Rule

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on July 12, 2016 and is republished here with permission. A new proposed rule would reduce the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program reporting period for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals. The new reporting period would…

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