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Chart Conundrums: Desperately Seeking Clinical Validation

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 sepsis criteria” because a patient with a urinary tract infection has an elevated white blood…

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How to Improve Clinical Documentation

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 systems trying to survive and thrive under value-based reimbursement realize that optimal clinical documentation is…

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Discussing Second Level Reviews in CDI

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 second level reviews. All cases presented to the CDI team for second level review thus…

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Bridging the Gap between HIM Coding and CDI Professionals

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 achieved. —Mattie Stepanek Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professionals have a worthy task to help identify…

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Has CAC Lived Up to Its Promise? Providers, Vendors Weigh In

Article by Lisa A. Eramo, MA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 1, 2017 and is republished here with permission. In the months leading up to the ICD-10 go-live, many hospitals implemented computer-assisted coding (CAC) in the hopes that it would offset anticipated productivity losses and boost coding accuracy. Now…

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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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Dolbey, Maxim Partner to Offer RCM Services: 3 Things to Know

By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital CFO Computer software company Dolbey partnered with health information management and revenue cycle management services provider Maxim Healthcare Services. Here are three things to know about the partnership. 1. Through the partnership, Dolbey customers will be able to access Maxim’s staff for auditing, clinical documentation improvement, coding and other…

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Dolbey Earns 2017 KLAS Category Leader for Computer-Assisted Coding

CONCORD, OH – February 7, 2017 CONCORD, Ohio — Dolbey has earned the 2017 Category Leader award from KLAS, the leading health care research company. Every year, KLAS collects evaluations from health care providers regarding the technology and services they use. From those evaluations, KLAS ranks the best of the best across many categories. Dolbey’s…

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Dolbey’s Fusion CAC Delivers Fastest Speed-To-Value in ICD-10

CONCORD, OH – OCTOBER 13, 2016 In the recently published study, “Computer-Assisted Coding 2016, Who is Delivering Promised Value in ICD-10” by KLAS Research, Dolbey customers reported the fastest ICD-10 speed-to-value. With the implementation of ICD-10, most healthcare organizations experienced a decline in coding productivity which results in higher unbilled accounts receivables. Dolbey customers, using…

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Survey: Coding Productivity Dipped After ICD-10 Implementation

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 13, 2016 and is republished here with permission. The implementation of ICD-10 did result in a perceived loss of coding productivity, with a minimal dip in coding accuracy, according to a recent coding productivity and accuracy survey. The survey was…

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