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By Carl Natale, Editor, for ICD10Watch Are you worried that ICD-10’s granularity will take a hefty toll on productivity? Then you’re not alone. One of the major issues with ICD-10 implementation is the concern that the increased specificity will create more work for medical practices and damage productivity. To document that increased specificity, physicians are…
By Reuters at MSN News Community Health Systems Inc , one of the biggest U.S. hospital groups, said on Monday it was the victim of a cyber attack from China, resulting in the theft of Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to 4.5 million patients That would make the attack the largest of…
By: Bonnie S. Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, for ICD10 monitor As you prepare for the newly announced Oct. 1, 2015, ICD-10 compliance date, now is the time to evaluate and redefine your clinical documentation value chain. A value chain is a series of activities that are performed in order to deliver a valuable product…
By Gabriel Perna for healthcare-informatics.com Last December, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) painted an ugly picture of fraudulent use of electronic health records (EHRs) by hospitals and healthcare provider settings. HHS OIG said that a good chunk of provider organizations they studied were not protecting patient data from potential misuse…
By Katie Wike, contributing writer Health IT Outcomes A KLAS survey reveals 9 of 10 hospitals plan to expand the use of front-end speech deployment. Speech recognition technology has been called an “aggressively” growing market by HIMSS, and already has shown a growth rate of more than 20 percent per year, as Health IT Outcomes…
By: Angela Carmichael for icd10monitor.com The primary benefit of the latest delay in the implementation of ICD-10 is that it allows ample time for additional preparation and testing. One element of preparation that should be on each provider’s to-do list is dual coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI). The process and scope of any dual…
By Shideh Sedgh Bina for Becker’s Hospital Review Through extensive research into the thought-leading literature on the industry, as well as interviews with executives, physicians, policy makers and other stakeholders at the heart of the matter, Insigniam has distinguished ten disruptive forces in healthcare, which healthcare leaders will need to address in their strategies if…
By Gabriel Perna for Healthcare Informatics For many, the delay of the ICD-10 transition will require major revisions to their implementation plan. For others, the changes will be minor. Some won’t change a thing. A recent webinar, hosted by the Weymouth, Mass.-based consulting firm, Beacon Partners, articulated this discrepancy while providing tips to providers that…
A silver lining: a chance to re-energize efforts around broader strategic imperatives By Bonnie S. Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS for Advance for Health Information Professionals While some are relieved, the majority of hospital organizations are frustrated with the continued delay of ICD-10 implementation, given all the time, energy and resources that have been devoted…
By Robert Anglen for azcentral.com Eileen Schraan’s doctor told her to call 911. The 86-year-old woman had complained of shortness of breath and pain in her jaw, classic heart-attack symptoms. She was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the emergency room. Schraan was kept under observation for three days last year at Banner Baywood…