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Physicians Group Protects PHI While Experiencing Rapid Growth
Alyssa Nole, manager of EMR operations for the Lehigh Valley Physician Group, attended AHIMA to explain how MRO helped manage LVPG's rapid growth, increasing in size to include more than 1,000 physicians at 160 practice locations. Due to this fast-paced growth, the numerous practices had variations in both PHI disclosure management processes and timelines for fulfilling patient information requests. After implementation of MRO's outsourced staff model, LVPG reduced the turnaround for ROI requests to a maximum of five days - with the team nearly always beating this timeframe - and realized cost savings through offloading ROI processes from the practices to a single on-site location. In addition, since January, MRO has begun staffing an additional 20 practices and will continue to do so until all of LVPG has transitioned to the staffed model.
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The Two Most Important Tasks To Complete To Successfully Transition To ICD-10
In this video, Summer Scott Humphreys, executive consultant at Beacon Partners, offers the top two most important tasks to complete for successful ICD-10 project completion, explains the value of dual coding and undertaking a financial impact analysis, and offers ways to keep ICD-10 a top priority during the delay.
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How Banner Health Standardized Transcription And Saved $1.7 Million
Christine Steigerwald, senior director, HIMS operations at Banner Health discusses in this video how Banner has been able to reduce transcription expenses and improve efficiency by standardizing dictation and transcription technology and processes.
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Clinical Documentation Integrity And Its Impact On Information Governance
In the following video, Bonnie Cassidy, senior director of HIM innovation at Nuance Communications and recipient of the 2014 AHIMA Distinguished Member Triumph Award, discusses the runaway train of clinical documentation and how, when records are wrong, clinicians miss out on the whole picture of the patient, leading to imperfect diagnosis.
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Data Governance And Best Practices To Building A Complete Legal Health Record
Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, president, HIMentors and Karla Sartori, marketing director, ChartMaxx from Quest Diagnostics shared their conversation on the floor of AHIMA in this video. Grzybowski discussed how the lessons from her book, Strategies For Electronic Document And Health Record Managment, can be used to improve data governance and build legal health record while Sartori relayed how those concepts are being applied today.
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MD Anderson Cancer Center Gains Freedom By Outsourcing Release Of Information
Ikae Barnett, who serves as the liaison between HIM/Legal/Risk/Compliance at MD Anderson Cancer Center and focuses on regulatory compliance, privacy, and general process improvement attended AHIMA to speak on behalf of HealthPort. Barnett shared the benefits of the relationship, including how HealthPort has helped MD Anderson release information, freeing its staff for other tasks.
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Simplifying ICD-10 For Outpatient Coding
In this video, Deborah Neville, director, revenue cycle, coding and compliance at Elsevier, looks at the similarities and differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM, reveals what ICD-10-CM chapters will be most challenging or have the most changes for outpatient coders, and offers activities, including educational planning, that should be considered for a successful transition.
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Benefits Of A Direct Exchange To Your Organization
Sheldon Wolf, the ND Health Information Technology director for the North Dakota Health Information Department, shared his thoughts on how a direct exchange functions, how one is incorporated into a healthcare facility, and the benefits of incorporating one. Wolf also defined scalable trust and the requirements for adopting them into an organization, as well as provided practical examples and best practices learned from the use of Direct in North Dakota.
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Practical Methodologies To Achieve Favorable EHR Implementation Results
John Dickey, manager consulting services for Parallon, shared highlights from his AHIMA presentation "Leveraging EHR Implementation Hindsight." Dickey spoke about the hot-button HIM issues related to generating documentation in a completely electronic environment, how to grasp practical methodologies and tools specific to HIM used to achieve favorable EHR implementation results, and how to better understand the wide variety of subjects that must be categorized, prioritized, and immediately addressed or mitigated with involvement from HIM to realize the optimal state of the EHR.
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Accurate Clinical Documentation Ensures Appropriate Reimbursement, Drives Better Outcomes
Debbie Schrubb, RHIA, HIM director for Kettering Health Network, was at AHIMA on behalf of 3M Health Information Systems to discuss the importance of accurate and complete clinical documentation to ensure appropriate reimbursement and accurate quality outcomes data - both significant concerns for healthcare organizations given the move towards value-based purchasing. Schrubb relayed how Kettering has launched an initiative to help physicians capture the full patient story in their documentation using automated tools and technology from 3M.