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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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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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 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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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