The End Result Will Help

October 9, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The End Result Will Help

Sometimes with all the anxiety and business around the ICD-10 coding classification transition, we forget that this will undoubtedly result in better insight into individual patient conditions, and that the wealth of data that will be available will improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery. In addition, this data will improve disease control and treatment.

This popular topic was brought to our attention by Government Health IT in their article, “5 benefits automated coding tools bring to ICD-10 transition.”

The medical coding that will get us there requires specialized expertise. Training is very important. That is why Access Innovations, Inc. provides training to a client’s staff and then offers quality assurance and validation services that can:

  • Minimize the risk of a coding error
  • Identify inappropriate or inadvertently applied tags
  • Display a “map” of coding distributions to allow management to get a bird’s-eye view of the coding assignment flow.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

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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.