Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.
Many healthcare professionals are in scrambling mode to beat the October 2013 deadline to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical coding system. This has an upside for the economy. Anthelio, a healthcare technology company based in Dallas, plans to hire 200 people in Michigan, mostly medical insurance billers and coders. If there is a state that needs an economical boost, Michigan would fit that bill.
In the continual race to beat the deadline of the ICD 10-transition has various companies scrambling for assistance. Elsevier/MC Strategies will be working with Care Communications to develop an ICD-10 transition resource, and Anthelio has formed a strategic partnership with MedQuist Holdings. Health insurance giant, Humana is incorporating Interactions Corporation's voice portal technology into its Medicare Part D benefits enrollment program.
During the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Salt Lake City this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official urged health care organizations to move forward with the transition to ICD-10 code sets.
To prepare for the ICD-10 and ANSI 5010 regulations, Indiana University Health (IU Health) Bloomington and Paoli Hospital are looking to McKesson’s Horizon Patient Folder electronic documentation management system to make the transition.
With right at a year left on the deadline, 85% of respondents to a recent American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) survey indicated they had begun work on ICD-10 planning and implementation. This is up from 62% reported a year ago and 55% from a similar survey done in April 2010.
The Office of Inspector General has estimated that Medicare contractors nationwide overpaid physicians roughly $28.8 million combined in 2008 and 2009 for incorrectly coded services. This news makes it a little easier to understand the need for a new medical coding system.
Quite possibly, the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 represents one of the most wide-ranging impacts to a healthcare provider’s business. Everything they do will […]
3M, the designers of the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System, will help the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prep its computer systems for ICD-10 coding.