Posts Tagged ‘Indexing’
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.
Read MoreMarkLogic Chosen by The Press Association
With data being created much faster than it can be indexed or archived, big data is overwhelming many organizations, most especially news organizations. MarkLogic Corporation has announced that the Press Association (PA), the UK’s leading multimedia news agency and information provider, has selected MarkLogic as the central content store, metadata repository, and syndication engine for all of its unstructured information.
Read MoreOverpaying/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.
Read MoreFinancial 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 change in some form or fashion. What will take the biggest hit is probably their revenue. PR Web brought this information to our attention in their article, “The Impact of ICD-10…
Read MoreFinding 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.
Read MoreROI 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.
Read MorePostgreSQL 9.1 Released
The PostgreSQL 9.1 open source database offers users new features including some that are not duplicated with any other vendor.
Read MoreLarge 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.
Read MoreICD-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.
Read MoreSolving 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.
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