ICD-10 Transition: How to engage, not scare, physicians
Date: Feb 13, 2012 Hospitals need to get their physicians more involved with ICD-10 transitions.
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ICD-10 Education: HIM students learning more than medical codes
Date: Jan 25, 2012 There's more to ICD-10 training than learning medical codes, anatomy and physiology.
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CAC & ICD-10: How to evaluate what CAC can do for healthcare providers
Date: Sep 07, 2011 There is a real concern that ICD-10 will create strong productivity losses and increases in claim denial. I say claim denial is a real concern not because of a conscious effort by payers to reduce reimbursements.
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Precyse unwraps ICD-10-ready HIM platform
Date: May 05, 2011 Precyse on Thursday detailed a healthcare information management (HIM) platform that, it says, is ready for ICD-10.
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University health group to offer 3M ICD-10 tools
Date: Apr 28, 2011 ICD10Watch sponsor 3M Health Information Systems announced that University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) will make the vendor’s ICD-10 wares available.
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AHIMA's Top 10 ICD-10 documentation problems
Date: Apr 26, 2011 The new code sets promise challenges across the spectrum of uses and users, coding documentation being no exception.
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MedQuist shows off ICD-10-ready CodeRunner
Date: Apr 21, 2011 Health vendor MedQuist last week unwrapped an ICD-10-ready version of CodeRunner.
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ZyDoc adds CAC to its offerings
Date: Apr 14, 2011 With ICD-10 predicted to spike the use of computer-assisted coding software, a stream of vendors is bringing CAC tools to market. This week, ZyDoc introduced one such offering.
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3M summit to focus on ICD-10, CAC, CDI
Date: Apr 06, 2011 3M Health Information Systems this week shared details of its upcoming conference geared for coders.
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After ICD-10, will coders ever regain ICD-9 efficiency levels?
Date: Mar 21, 2011 If anyone is suggesting that ICD-10 will not create a productivity drop in the days after compliance, they must be practicing silent protest. Most experts agree that come the flip-switch October 1, 2013 compliance deadline even seasoned, well-trained coders will take longer with the ICD-10 than they did with ICD-9. The overarching question is whether or not coders will master ICD-10 and, in so doing, resume ICD-9-era productivity?
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