Training Needed to Stay the Course
Health information managers are scrambling to put in place the new coding classification system that will change everything they do in medical coding. The one-year delay may have helped, but time goes quickly – whether you are having fun or not.
This topic was inspired by an article found on Search Health IT titled, “AHIMA 2012 convention buzz: ICD-10 delay hurts some, helps others.” Medical coding is something that requires specialized expertise and systems tailored to regulatory requirements. Access Innovations, developer of the M.A.I. machine-assisted indexing system and specializing in complex coding, tagging, and indexing, provides a range of services that deliver tag integrity. Access Innovations provides training to a client’s staff and then offers quality assurance and validation services that can assist in minimizing the risk of a coding error and identify inappropriately applied tags.
Many widely used tagging systems lack a 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
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.