ICD-10 Preperation, ICD-10 Strategies, ICD-10 News, and ICD-10 Implementation Resources
FEATURED ARTICLES: ICD-10
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4 Ways AI Is The Future Of HospitalsHospitals are often caught in a tug-of-war choosing between time-tested methods and the razor’s edge of new research when it comes to adopting new treatments, processes, and technology. Venturing into the uncharted waters of advanced technologies and innovative techniques can be unsettling, but the payoff for hospital systems and patients can lead to improved patient experience, quality, and outcomes.
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Improving Patient Outcomes & Driving Revenue In An Era Of Value-Based Care11/29/2021
Healthcare costs per capita in the United States are increasing at an alarming rate. Overall spending reached $3.8 trillion in 2019. Between $760-$935 billion of the overall cost of healthcare is attributed to waste, overtreatment, low-value care, and failure of care coordination.
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Changed For The Better: A Shared Digital Communication Solution8/31/2021
Fortunately for humans, we’re masters at adaptation. Whether it’s encountering different climates, environments, cultures, or even pandemics, homo sapiens have a knack for being able to deal with just about anything that Mother Nature throws at us. Though cultural anthropology dubs this ability to acclimate “biological plasticity,” actor Clint Eastwood, as a Marine in a 1980s war film, puts it more succinctly: “You adapt. You overcome. You improvise.”
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Consumer-Oriented Patients Expect A Better Technology Experience7/28/2021
Feeling much like an Olympic gymnast’s acrobatic routine, patients’ healthcare experience over the past 18 months has endured a dizzying series of twists, turns, and somersaults—albeit without the benefit of Dramamine. Patients found themselves caught up in COVID-induced disruptions and often didn’t know if or when they could safely access care. Thankfully now, things are returning to some semblance of normalcy as the vaccine proliferates and cases plunge.
- Changing Patient Communications Preferences And The Race For Providers To Adapt
- Keeping Patients Top Of Mind: Connected, Informed, And Educated
- Making Strides Toward Greater Success In Virtual Care
- Bridging The Digital Divide: Virtual Care Accessibility Options For Everyone
- Eye-Tracking In Healthcare: Medical Diagnostics, Health Equity, And The COVID-19 Response
- COVID-19 Communications: Meeting Patients Where They Are
CASE STUDIES & WHITE PAPERS
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Hometown Heroes: How Hutchinson Clinic Saved Their Patients And Their Bottom Line3/16/2022
Amid the sights and sounds of the annual Kansas State Fair, the buzz of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and the fanfare surrounding Hutchinson Community College basketball games, you’ll find the 40,000 locals who call Hutchinson home. “Hutch” as it’s affectionately known, is the largest city and county seat in Reno County, Kansas.
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Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Hospital Ensures High Availability In The AWS Cloud With SIOS DataKeeper5/6/2020
SIOS Chosen for its Ability to Deliver both High Availability and High Performance.
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How Payspan Conquered The Unique Challenges Of NAS Migrations In Healthcare4/16/2020
Complex unstructured data migration tests healthcare payments company.
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Healthcare's Unique Challenge: Managing Employee Spend9/12/2019
Healthcare facilities nationwide face increasing pressure to reduce costs across their organization. Providing patient care is the top priority. For that reason, healthcare executives take advantage of cost savings opportunities within administrative spend to reinvest in critical business areas. These reinvestment efforts enable them to provide better quality care.
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
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Is Big Data Fueling Breaches?
Data breaches continue to dominate healthcare headlines, leading one to wonder if the unprecedented growth of Big Data is to blame? Health Data Consortium CEO Chris Boone shares his thoughts on this subject and more.
ABOUT ICD-10
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health problems (ICD). ICD is a medical classification list created by the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD allows more than 14,400 different codes which can be expanded to over 16,000 codes with sub-classifications. ICD-10 was completed in 1992.
The health systems of some 25 countries use ICD-10 for reimbursement and resource allocation, while some countries also made modifications to ICD and use their modified versions. The standard international version of ICD-10 is used for statistics and cause of death reporting in about 110 countries.
In the United States, ICD-10 implementation has been pushed back repeatedly, and in January of 2009 was pushed back to October 1, 2013. ICD-10's basic structure consists of 7 characters, 1-3 are the category of the disease, 4 is the etiology of the disease, 5 is the body part affected, 6 is the severity of the illness, and 7 is a placeholder used for extension of the code to increase specificity.
The difficulty with implementing ICD-10 is the need to update and replace existing software that is incompatible and the large amount of time required to train physicians, staff members, and administrators on the new codes. Practices will also have to update their paperwork and forms while changing or modifying any ICD-related policies and guidelines.
FEATURED NEWS
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Will Robots Replace Healthcare Providers?6/8/2017
Automation has been making human workers superfluous for centuries, but until recently, workers whose jobs required high-level cognitive skills have been able to rest easy, confident no machine could possibly replace them when it came to making nuanced decisions based on the evaluation of complicated, sometimes contradictory data. By Khal Rai, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Operations, SRS Health
ICD-10 NEWS ARTICLES
- Guardian Medical Direction And Simpl Healthcare Team Up To Transform Provider Oversight With AI-Enhanced EHR Technology
- Avo Launches Ask Avo, A First-Of-Its-Kind EHR-Integrated AI Consult Tool That Answers Complex Clinical Questions And Automates Tasks
- GE HealthCare Introduces Elevated Venue Point Of Care Ultrasound Solutions And New Tablet-Based Venue Sprint
- Oracle Delivers New Electronic Health Record Innovations
- 21-Provider Knox Public Health Improves Revenue With eClinicalWorks EHR And Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Optimization Services