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Document for Success |
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Physician documentation is the foundational element to so many areas in the patient life cycle. From patient safety and outcomes to compliance and the revenue cycle, it's the one piece that can set the stage for success or failure. READ MORE |
| Preserving the patient story as we progress to EHRs |
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How best to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs)? How best to enable the transformations in healthcare that we know are possible, that we know require consistent and reliable health information? I'd like to suggest that an effective strategy, one which is minimally disruptive to well-established clinician workflow, is to leverage and incrementally build upon our enormous investment in clinical documents.
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Overcoming ICD-10 Hurdles |
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According to surveys conducted by HIMSS and WEDI, many organizations are behind schedule in planning for the ICD-10 transition, which is going to smack against any number of clinical, billing and reporting information systems. However, those who have jumped head-first into planning for the transition do share common lessons. High-level executive sponsorship of the effort is a given.
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| Documentation training uncovers $1.5 M in revenue |
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Coding is essential to helping gain proper reimbursement during the billing process; however, proper documentation may actually be the key to optimizing revenue and capturing patients' acuity and severity of disease.
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HHS inspector general says push for electronic medical records overlooks some security gaps |
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The nation's push to computerize medical records has failed to fully address longstanding security gaps that expose patients' most sensitive information to hackers and snoops, government investigators warn. READ MORE |
