Indexing

Delay or Change Direction?

By |April 9th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Delay or Change Direction?

The announcement made by the CMS and HHS last month to delay the compliance deadline for the ICD-10 transitions has created a lot of concerns and discussion. Many wonder what is next, should they stop their progress or continue on?

Access Innovations, Inc. Creates Taxonomy For Iowa Code, Administrative Code and Acts

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.

Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested

By |April 5th, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested

The Lake County Genealogical Society now is seeking volunteers to help index the census for Lake County when it is released in April. Once the indexing is complete, users will be able to locate a person of interest among the 132 million names in the census. Once the indexing work is completed, its contents will be available for free for anyone wishing to access it.

Take Advantage of the Extra Time

By |April 4th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Take Advantage of the Extra Time

Many healthcare organization are going forward with their conversion plans, even with the Health and Human Services’ delay of the ICD-10 compliance to be ready by October 1, 2013.

Predictions Positive for the Publishing World

By |April 3rd, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Predictions Positive for the Publishing World

Simba Information predicts publishing products and services will grow in 2012 by at least 3%. This increase will be led by the legal, science/technical and medical segments. The leading delivery method is print and electronic books closely followed by online services and abstracting/indexing.

New Website Emphasizes Concerns in the Healthcare World

ZirMed has made their mark as a provider of revenue cycle and information solutions for healthcare and now have launched www.StartStopICD10.com in response to the February 14th announcement by the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of a re-examination of the ICD-10 timeline.

Mapping for ICD-10 Proceeding, Even if the Transition Isn’t

By |March 30th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Mapping for ICD-10 Proceeding, Even if the Transition Isn’t

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a preview version of a SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM map to automatically generate ICD-10-CM codes from clinical data entered into electronic health records (EHRs).

Preparing for the Deadline

By |March 28th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Preparing for the Deadline

Many are concerned about the delay in the ICD-10 compliance deadline and worry that in actuality, it won't improve readiness and could even harm other health reform efforts.

Take Advantage of the Delay

By |March 27th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Take Advantage of the Delay

Gateway EDI is continuing their training and credentialing in the medical coding industry regardless of the delay of the October 2013 deadline for complete ICD-10 transition.

The Impact of Additional Delay

By |March 26th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Impact of Additional Delay

The Medical Group Management Association wants the Department of Health and Human Services to do more than delay ICD-10 implementation, they believe additional steps should be included in the ICD-10 timeline for what they call “due diligence.”