Category Archives: ICD-10

ICD-10

Cool is Great, but ICD-10 Is About Payment

Posted on May 8, 2013 by John

I got the following email from a practice manager: But here is a monster of a question for EMR/EHRs: In 510 days, ICD-10 and its 70,000 plus codes (as opposed to ICD-9′s 14,000 codes) will be on the necks of … Continue reading →

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H.I.M. ON CALL Launches Dual Coding Service to Help Hospitals Prepare for ICD-10

Posted on March 26, 2013 by John

ICD-10 Testing Requirement Now Supported by Outsourced Coding Firm Allentown, PA, March 26, 2013: H.I.M. ON CALL, a technology-driven outsourced services company for health information management (HIM), coding and revenue cycle, announces the availability of its dual coding services for … Continue reading →

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HIMSS CIO survey visualized

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Neil Versel

I already reported the results of the annual HIMSS healthcare CIO survey in a story I wrote for InformationWeek the other day. Since everybody seems to love infographics these days, HIMSS produced one visualizing some of the highlights, including the … Continue reading →

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ZyDoc Expands NIH SBIR NLP Grant for EHR Usability Research Study to Other Facilities

Posted on February 15, 2013 by John

Islandia, NY February 8, 2013 – ZyDoc, an Islandia, NY-based medical informatics company, has been awarded Phase I SBIR grant funding by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health for a study involving ZyDoc’s NLP-powered MediSapien™ … Continue reading →

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My HIMSS will be all about quality and patient safety

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Neil Versel

As regular readers might already know, 2012 was a transformative year in my life, and mostly not in a good way. I ended the year on a high note, taking a character-building six-day, 400-mile bike tour through the mountains, desert … Continue reading →

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Leading Healthcare IT Solutions Firm Sees Dramatic Increase in Outsourced Helpdesk Utilization

Posted on February 8, 2013 by John

CareTech Solutions reports 75% spike in use of Service Desk™ in 2012; cites EHR learning curve and diversion of IT resources to strategic initiatives as likely causes (TROY, Mich., Jan. 31, 2013) CareTech Solutions, an information technology (IT) and Web … Continue reading →

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GE Healthcare Announces Centricity Practice Solution 11

Posted on January 24, 2013 by John

New Ambulatory EMR Offering Simplifies ICD-10 Readiness with One-click Problem Entry and Mapping to ICD-9 Codes BARRINGTON, Ill. – Jan 24, 2013 – GE Healthcare today announced the release of Centricity* Practice Solution 11, the next generation of its fully … Continue reading →

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UCare Selects Edifecs as Strategic Partner for ICD-10 Migration

Posted on December 31, 2012 by David

Today Edifecs announced a new ICD-10 customer partnership with non-profit Minnesota health plan, UCare. Edifecs will support the healthcare system’s transition to ICD-10 through its solution which will ensure operational and financial neutrality. Edifecs’ ICD-10 Solution will prepare the health … Continue reading →

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ICD-10 explained in a minute and a half

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Neil Versel

It’s Sunday, so it’s time for something light. University of Utah Health Care put together this handy little video that explains ICD-10 to physicians as well as their role in making the transition. There is one footnote I’d like to … Continue reading →

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ICD-10 Delay Finalized with New Unique Plan Identifier

Posted on August 24, 2012 by John

Another big week for healthcare IT and HHS. First, we got the meaningful use stage 2 final rule and now we have the official ICD-10 delay (See our previous post about the proposed ICD-10 delay). Here’s a quote from the … Continue reading →

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