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Four Reasons Healthcare Organizations Need To Simplify The Documentation Of The Clinician Diagnosis Process

Finding and selecting the right diagnosis code is critical to revenue cycle management, decision support and reporting. Thus it’s important for healthcare organization to streamline the process, but it is not without challenges with the following reasons: The number of clinical codes is increasing Unspecified codes can lead to inaccurate reimbursement Getting it right the… Continue reading Four Reasons Healthcare Organizations Need To Simplify The Documentation Of The Clinician Diagnosis Process

Is Health Care Ready for Big Data?

Is Health Care ready to use Big Data? It is making some progress but it is still early days. As the following article from Harvard Business Review points out, there are a few elements that are crucial: Integrating Data – we’ll need standardization of health care data in order to capture meaningful data Generating New… Continue reading Is Health Care Ready for Big Data?

Tips To Improve EHR Clinical Documentation

The primary goal of clinical documentation should provide physicians a track record of patient’s conditions in order to provide appropriate diagnostic and/or treatment plan for the patient. But over time, other additional requirements on the clinical documentation process might cause deviation from the primary goal of direct care for the patient. The Medical Informatics Committee of… Continue reading Tips To Improve EHR Clinical Documentation