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  • Advance Your Documentation Quality and Accuracy Now While Preparing For ICD-10

    (This sponsored blog was written by Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStream.) Many think ICD-10 is only a coding problem, but the true challenge of ICD-10 is the need for increasing specificity and granularity in documentation in order to receive optimal reimbursement, meet all reporting requirements, and most accurately reflect ...
    Posted to Preparing a Successful ICD-10 Transition (Weblog) on May 1, 2013

  • Helping Physicians Succeed in an ICD-10 World

    By Stephen McClure, marketing manager-content, HealthStream As the healthcare industry draws closer to the go-live date, ICD-10 remains a polarizing topic among healthcare professionals. While some healthcare organizations are actively preparing for a strategic rollout, others are, more or less, bracing for impact. In April 2012, CMS extended ...
    Posted to Preparing a Successful ICD-10 Transition (Weblog) on March 21, 2013

  • HIMSS 2013: Tips and Can't Miss Events From a Veteran Attendee

    In anticipation of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition to be held March 3 to 7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, ADVANCE interviewed Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, senior director of HIM Innovation at Nuance and AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer. Cassidy spent the majority of her career on the ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on February 8, 2013

  • Chopra Inspires in AHIMA Convention Closing Address

    (Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, who is AHIMA director of HIM Solutions.) Aneesh Chopra, the former first American federal chief technology officer of the U.S., described President Obama's overall vision for innovation, or ''how will this country get its mojo back?'' within the context of ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on October 4, 2012

  • Physician groups asks CMS to re-evaluate deadlines

    A press release issued by the American Medical Association states that the AMA and state and national medical specialty societies sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing serious concern about an onslaught of overlapping regulations that affect physicians. The AMA cited the value-based ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on March 29, 2012

  • What's the Top Barrier to IT Implementation?

    For the first time in years, information technology (IT) leaders at healthcare organizations did not identify a lack of financial support for IT as an obstacle to implementation. So what's the problem? According to the 23rd Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, released on Tuesday, one-quarter of respondents said adequate staffing resources within their ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on February 24, 2012