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| Lower Audit Vulnerability With Key Documentation | |
When it comes to working with risk adjustment and providers, it is extremely important to make sure you have a good grasp on hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) to facilitate better communication with your providers as you relate risk adjustment factor (RAF) scores in conjunction with coding accuracy and documentation improvement. READ MORE
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ToC votes to use CDA as standard | |
The S&I Framework Transitions of Care Initiative was chartered to identify and recommend one or more standards to meet the following requirement for Meaningful Use: Exchange key clinical information among providers of care and with patients and other authorized entities electronically based on level of system capability, i.e., human readable, unstructured text or full interoperable structured data.
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ICD-10 Transition Checklist | |
The conversion from ICD-9, which has been the standard since the late 1980s, to ICD-10, will require even greater preparation since this conversion will impact both the business and clinical operations of every medical practice. Providers will require significant ramp-up time - the number of diagnostic procedure codes alone will increase fivefold.
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| Seeing promise and peril in digital records |
The matter of standards for electronic health records is raising similar concerns, prompting heated debate in recent meetings of representatives from medicine, industry, academia and government. The stakes, they say, could scarcely be higher. They agree that, when well designed and wisely used, digital records can deliver the power of better information to medicine, improving care and curbing costs. But computer forms, they add, can also be difficult to use, cluttered and distracting, causing more harm than good in health care.
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Medicare online documentation system to cut health care cost | |
Healthcare providers will have a new, less expensive way to send documents to Medicare review contractors starting in August. Instead of faxing or mailing documents requested to support claims, they will be able to transmit them online through an approved third party.
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Top 5 Security Threats In Healthcare | |
The increase of mobile devices, embedded devices, virtualization software, social media and the consumerization of IT are the top five security threats for healthcare organizations today, says one expert.
Frank Andrus, chief technology officer at Bradford Networks, a security solutions provider based in Concord, N.H., shared with Healthcare IT News what he believes healthcare organizations should consider their top risks - and his recommendations for minimizing them.
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