EDCO Group has been awarded a patent for its medical record scanning and indexing technology, called Solarity. This technology enables the classification and separation of documents based on content. These automated steps in the scanning and indexing process minimize human intervention, which results in reduced cost and expedited processes.
Access Integrity and Find-A-Code have joined force to revolutionize the medical coding industry. The application — named IntegraCoder — will combine Access Integrity’s semantic enrichment, rule-based taxonomy tool with Find-A-Code’s comprehensive medical coding datasets and search applications into a single user-friendly interface.
One of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry in addition to the ICD-10 transition, is coordination among their many business partners. Providers, payers, and vendors all need to be on the same page at the same point, and that point is October 1, 2014.
Medical imagery can be as helpful as medical information. Searching for them may be a little different though. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH are building a large-scale medical image retrieval system for consumers using a medical ontology.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has announced that the DSM-5 diagnostic manual project will not be the focus of their work. With only weeks before the launch, the NIMH said, it will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”. Those familiar with this project find this move somewhat surprising.
With the October 2014 date looming, many providers are fearful they will need to memorize each and every one of the 68,000 new medical codes to be in compliance.
As health care providers are going through the process of preparing for the ICD-10 coding classification transition, it is a good opportunity to evaluate other areas related to the process. One practical way to prepare for the ICD-10 transition is to look at areas in which you can improve how you document your clinical services. This will also provide a learning opportunity for staff.
Serials Solutions is working with Teton Data Systems (TDS) to make the premier healthcare e-resource STAT!Ref discoverable via the Summon service.
After years of planning and complaining, healthcare organizations are beyond knee-deep in preparing for the ICD-10 coding classification transition due by October 1, 2014. Ironically, there is now legislation introduced in the U.S. House would prohibit the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) from mandating that physicians use ICD-10 diagnosis codes.