The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has chosen TEMIS to assist in revamping their online content offering. ASM’s authoritative content, including journal titles dating back to 1916, a rapidly expanding image library, 240 book titles, its news magazine Microbe, and abstracts of meetings and educational publications, is at stake. Their goal is to enhance the search and navigation for true findability.
ChartWise Medical Systems’s flagship product now provides support for both the current ICD-9 and upcoming ICD-10 coding systems. The ICD-10 transition deadline is scheduled for October 2013 and becoming more and more the subject of much discussion in the healthcare technology industry.
The ICD-10 transition is underway in preparation for the October 2013 deadline. Many healthcare providers have begun the training process of the transition, which is very important.
Index Engines has launched a new custodian-based pricing model for qualified e-discovery Service Providers (ESP) and their clients. This enables the ESP access to high-speed indexing, de-duplication and other features.
Hitachi Data Systems has aligned their product and portfolio around a three-tiered strategy that focuses on the cloud. This consists of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud to provide a single virtualization platform for all data.
HCPro, Inc. will be bringing together leading industry experts on coding and ICD-10 for three days of presentations and discussion, from February 29-March 2nd, 2012. The JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is an online event and features two educational tracks: one for HIM Directors and Coding Supervisors, and one for Inpatient and Outpatient Coders.
One blogger compared the impending ICD-10 coding classification transition to the movie, The Perfect Storm. As challenging as the process is, I don’t know that it will be as tragic and dramatic as that. It will, however, be one of the most important milestones in healthcare technology.
Health Language, Inc has launched a new version of its provider friendly terminology (PFT) to include clinician friendly synonyms and more than 100,000 attributes for ICD-10-CM.
Cook Memorial Library in La Grande, Oregon are gaining two new databases of interest to family history researchers and genealogists — HeritageQuest Online available from home or office with a library card, and Ancestry Library Edition, available only in the library.
There has been a lot written about the unpreparedness of healthcare providers for the October 2013 deadline of the ICD-10 coding transition. I admit it, some of that has been here and by me. However, the closer we get to the deadline the more the news and surveys are reporting that healthcare IT departments are making preparations.