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• Documentation Improvement Helps Value-Based Purchasing

  8/11/2016

  I don’t believe it has ever been acceptable to simply look at Case Mix Index (CMI) alone as a measure of the impact of a Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program. By Dr. Jon Elion, MD, FACC and Founder/President, ChartWise Medical Systems

• Adaptation: The Key To Future HIM Success

  9/16/2015

  It’s a known fact in the animal kingdom that all organisms need to adapt to their habitat to survive. Take the camel, for example. Their long eyelashes, ability to open and close their nostrils, wide feet, fluctuating body temperature, storage of fat (not water) in their humps, plus their sandy color allow them to successfully survive in the harshest of desert conditions. Given the evolving healthcare landscape, it should come as no surprise that HIM professionals will need to adapt and refine their skill sets if they too want to meet the future challenges of the profession. The seismic shifts that are occurring across the healthcare industry are causing significant disruption to the status quo—but this massive change is also creating significant opportunity for HIM professionals. By Karen Snyder, Director of Healthcare Consulting, Iron Mountain

• Finding Comfort In An EHR Switch

  3/28/2014

  Lisa McChesney, director of information systems at UPMC Hamot discusses her role in the “Big Bang” and the support UPMC facilities offer one another when EHR switches take place in sister facilities.

• Applying The Concept Of Preventative Care To Your Virtualized Application Services

  1/10/2018

  Healthcare invented the concept of preventative care – the regular analysis of patient health indicators and diagnostics to stay ahead of issues. Practitioners aim to discover health related anomalies in their earliest stages of development in order to treat them quickly before they become life threatening and catastrophic. If we were to extend this principle to the digital services doctors and clinical staff need and use in treating patients, wouldn’t it also make sense to monitor and analyse the application services and underlying networks to stay ahead of slowdowns that could wreak havoc throughout the patient care delivery network?

• Tablet PC Enables Doctor To Succeed In The Field

  3/19/2012

  When a physician is “out in the field,” mobile technology is a great enabler, as long as it works. Dr. R. Dale Walker from One Sky Center in Oregon finds a tablet PC enables him to accomplish more and provide greater patient care. By Motion Computing
• Let's Improve Revenue Cycle Management Through Better Communication

  12/28/2015

  Revenue cycle management is the process of managing claims, payments and revenue generation, and the use of the technology to track the claims process at every point of its life so the physician performing the billing can follow (view) the process from start to finish and address any issues as they arise. A soundly managed RCM process allows for a steady stream of revenue for a healthcare organization. By Lindy Benton, president and CEO, MEA|NEA|TWSG