Financial Impact of ICD 10 Implementation
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 […]
Finding New Among the Old
Indexing is becoming one of the key information management methods. That is not new news. The fascination of categorizing and putting vast information in a findable form is what drives good taxonomy building.
ROI During Coding Migration
In the healthcare world, the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is one of the most impactful change to a healthcare provider’s business. With the dramatic increase in codes from roughly 18,000 to more than 140,000, processes for scheduling, care delivery, diagnostics, billing, and analytics will all change in one way or another.
PostgreSQL 9.1 Released
The PostgreSQL 9.1 open source database offers users new features including some that are not duplicated with any other vendor.
Large Data Sets and Ever Changing Terminology
Indexing enables accurate, consistent retrieval to the full depth and breadth of the collection. This does not mean that the statistics-based systems the government loves so much, will go away but, they are learning to embrace the addition of taxonomy terms as indexing.
ICD-10 System Has 5x the Codes
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.
Solving Information Puzzles
All the talk is about big data, but what about changing data? If a knowledge domain doesn’t change, it becomes stagnant. Even the Dead Sea Scrolls are changing as more and more is discovered about them by different scientists and researchers. Change was the topic recently when, Access Innovations’ president, Margie Hlava, sat down with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst, owner of ArnoldIT and writer of Beyond Search.
Cost Reduction Options for Hospitals
Many are concerned about the cost of healthcare, patients and hospitals alike. Cuts in Medicare funding, increases in insurance premiums, and new federal requirements […]
ICD-10 Projects Increasing
IT management and healthcare professionals across the country are ramping up projects to create their ICD-10 plan as the December 13, 2013 deadline date nears. Everyone is facing common challenges of budget, bandwidth, staffing, training and of course, technical issues.
Changing Search Into Found
With the volume of data doubling every four to six months, findability within that data has never been more important. Many are looking to indexing as the solution to this problem.