The Pressure is On

December 5, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Pressure is On

With two deadlines looming, can healthcare organizations be fully prepared? The Office for Civil Rights is randomly auditing for HIPAA compliance and this will continue through December 31, 2012. Right behind that is the October 2013 deadline for ICD-10 implementation. A recent survey showed most healthcare organizations charged with HIPAA compliance are not fully prepared for a privacy and security audit by federal regulators.

We found this interesting information on Health Leader Media in their article, “Most Providers Unprepared for HIPAA Audit.” The new ICD-10 classification system has five times more codes. Medical coding requires specialized expertise and systems tailored to the regulatory requirements in which health care providers, hospitals, and doctors deliver their services. Training staff is a key component of the transition.

Many widely used tagging systems lack the user friendly interface and may not implement a rigorous ANSI compliant coding subsystem. Access Innovations’ solutions are ANSI compliant and implement state-of-the-art technology to speed tagging and reduce errors.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.