(This sponsored blog was written by Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStream.)If you work in any healthcare environment, you know how inundated we have become with information around ICD-10 - most of it leaning toward the negative end of the spectrum. Yes, there is a lot to learn. Yes, there are time and financial burdens involved. ...

(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 ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Angela Carmichael of Pyramid Healthcare Solutions) After a thorough assessment of one's current CDI program, health information managers (HIMs) then must address eight essential ''to-dos'' to ensure successful transition to ICD-10. Ensuring clinical data and revenue integrity under ICD-10 ...

(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 ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Karen Kostick, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P.)What happens when a HIM professional and physician share the same clinical documentation improvement (CDI) mission? Results.  Together, Dr. Jon Elion, CEO and founder, ChartWise Medical Systems Inc., and Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Jill S. Clark, MBA, RHIA, CHDA, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) Who wants to be a data mapping millionaire? This year's AHIMA booth featured a variety of theater presentations for the exhibit hall attendees, and a game based on the popular game show ''Who Wants to be a ...

  (Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Karen Kostick, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) How do you define coding? How do you define the present and future HIM coding professional? These are a few questions presenter Nancy Hirschl, CCS, of Hirschl and Associates, posed at the Clinical ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Jill S. Clark, MBA, RHIA, CHDA, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.)Have you ever been contacted by a credit card company inquiring about a recent large purchase and/or frequency of purchases?  If so, you are the product of a predictive model.  Predictive modeling applies ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Shelly Guffey and Dawn Duchek.) The comment period on the proposed rule to delay ICD-10 closed on May 17, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is still in the process of reviewing those comments and deciding how the industry will proceed. Providers are uncertain about when ICD-10 ...

The proposed rule to delay the compliance date for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014 is posted to the Federal Register, and there is only 1 week left in the 30-day comment period. When proposing the delay to ICD-10, HHS took into consideration feedback that some provider groups have concerns about their ability to meet the Oct. 1, 2013 ...