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Most healthcare organizations were pleased with the year delay for the ICD-10 implementation, but October 2014 is still coming fast. The transition efforts should not be relaxed.
Read MoreDon’t Lower Your Standards
Pingar recently introduced its beta Taxonomy Generator Service, which will enable enterprises to generate instant taxonomies from an analysis of the content on large internal document sets.
Read MoreStandards are Needed
MedTouch has launched two strategic websites: washington.providence.org and montana.providence.org. Both websites are powered by the MedTouch Healthcare Accelerator Package for Sitecore.
Read MoreIndexing Hullabaloo
If indexing is an art to you, then this event will be right up your alley. “The Art and Craft of Indexing” is the theme at the American Society for Indexing’s annual conference in San Antonio, TX on April 17-20, 2013.
Read MoreWhat is the Financial Burden?
Many are concerned about the financial burden that the ICD-10 implementation might create for healthcare providers. However, there are some ways the physicians can improve the clinical documentation and therefore the coding reimbursements. Being creatures of habit, they have tended to rely on memorized codes. If the reliance on memorization is minimized, reimbursements can improve. There are more anatomic specific codes in the new system, and that makes memorization even more difficult.
Read MoreSeeking Comprehensive Results
Daminion Software has released its digital asset management (DAM) system, appropriately named Daminion Server. This program is targeted to home users who want to create a centralized photo and video archive that could be accessible from all computers in a local network.
Read MoreGrowing Amount of Data
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters recently released a report affirming that global submission rates for academic journals have peaked higher than in the last six years.
Read MoreComputers Can’t Replace Training
Computer assisted indexing can be a huge help in building a solid information architecture. We know that. We live that. However, it doesn’t solve all the problems. You still need solid medical coding training to face the challenges that will come with the ICD-10 coding classification transition.
Read MoreGood Indexing Requires Solid Taxonomies
The Document Scanning is a scanning and indexing services provider that works to create efficient indexes for digital scanned images of documents, books, records, etc.
Read MoreAHIMA Recommends Preparation
In the middle of the AMA and other professional organizations still seeking to get the ICD-10 coding classification transition delayed or stopped completely, the Association for Health Information Management (AHIMA) is encouraging providers to not stop and wait, but to continue training and preparing.
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