Technology Changes Physician’s Roles

I am sure most physicians didn’t decide to go to medical school because they liked technology. Granted and especially recently, younger medical students are entering the field already assimilated to using technology in every aspect of their life so applying it in their daily professional life is no stretch. However, with the many advances in semantic technology and now the shift to ICD 10 coding, which will require more specific coding for reimbursements, physicians can no longer hide in the clinic and let the office manager fend for their selves.

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Indexing Your Cookbooks

Though it may seem trivial in comparison to indexing millions of books in libraries, hundreds of thousands documents for publishers, and the endless financial data being indexed continuously, a new technology is indexing personal cookbook libraries for ease in searching for a specific recipe, ingredient or theme.

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Indexing the Social Health Web

Treato is a new source of medical information based on real life experiences of patients published over the social web. This new semantic-based technology was unveiled at the Health2.0 conference.

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IU Health Preparing for Transition

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.

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ICD-10 Conversion Deadline Looming

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.

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Overpaying/Underpaying – It Always Costs

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.

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