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By Lisa A. Eramo, MA for For the Record Why Your Hospital’s Reputation Depends—at Least Partially—on Accurate Pneumonia Coding These days, it takes seconds for patients to view mortality and readmissions data on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare website (www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare). With a few clicks of the mouse, they can—and frequently do—draw…
By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Ethics. My favorite topic! Being a hopelessly optimistic and naïve person, I am often surprised by unethical behavior. I have seen it in management and employees alike, and it always comes as a shock. Once I have identified this behavior in an individual, they…
By Susan Chapman for For The Record For aspiring coders, landing that first position can be intimidating. But never fear, industry experts are here to offer advice. Landing that all-important first job can seem daunting for a coder who is just entering the field. However, incorporating sound advice from seasoned experts can help job seekers…
By Anahad O’Connor for The New York Times Last month, President Trump signed an executive order making the development and regulation of artificial intelligence a federal priority. But one area where artificial intelligence is already taking hold is health care. Doctors are already using A.I. to spot potentially lethal lesions on mammograms. Scientists are also…
By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Cleveland Clinic has launched a new center to advance applications for artificial intelligence in healthcare. An initiative of Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Analytics, the Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence will bring together doctors, researchers, data scientists and others to develop clinical use cases for AI and machine learning…
By Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS for ACDIS CDI Blog Hiring the best possible CDI specialists is undoubtedly the most crucial piece of the puzzle when forming a new CDI program or expanding an existing one. A CDI specialist is a uniquely qualified individual—this is not a career path for the faint of…
By Jordan Rosenfeld for Modern Economics So much of a physician’s workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and regulatory burdens and EHR hassles, it’s no wonder physicians are burning out in record numbers. Experts in artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of…
By Angie Stewart for Becker’s ASC Review The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. Thirty-one countries played a role in field testing ICD-11. Here are five takeaways and quotes from WHO’s press briefing announcing the launch: 1. ICD-11…
By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog What is clinical validation and why is it important right now? The following quote from the June 2014 edition of Perspectives on Health Information Management sums it up in a nutshell: “Documentation is an important aspect of medical care. In addition to clinical communication,…
By Chris Casto Many healthcare organizations implemented computer-assisted coding (CAC) to supplement coding operations. The use of natural language processing to pre-read patient charts to suggest ICD-10-CM-PCS and CPT codes to the coding staff resulted in higher productivity, greater accuracy or both. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, some organizations have moved beyond code suggestions…