Tag Archives: AHIMA

VitalHealth Software to Participate in Health Story Demonstration at HIMSS 2013 Interoperability Showcase

VitalHealth Software to Showcase Cloud-based EHR Designed with Mayo Clinic in Collaborative Demo Minneapolis, MN — February 19, 2013 —VitalHealth Software, a leading global provider of web-based solutions for health management founded by the Mayo Clinic and Noaber Foundation, today … Continue reading

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HIMSS, AHIMA Release Results of HIE Staffing Environmental Scan

CHICAGO, (February 11, 2013) – Healthcare information exchange (HIE) organizations have become prime employers for both aspiring and experienced health information technology (IT) and healthcare information management (HIM) professionals, with the escalation of healthcare reform initiatives, such as HITECH and … Continue reading

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Coding Compliance Policy A Must Have

AHIMA Examines as Part of Thought Leadership Series CHICAGO – October 31, 2012– Does your organization’s coding compliance policy address upcoming challenges in clinical documentation? AHIMA explains why a coding compliance policy, updated at least once a year, is essential … Continue reading

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Just Associates Launches Data Integrity Optimization Service for Epic Identity Users

Epic Identity Optimization, featured by Just Associates during AHIMA, enhances system configurations to increase true duplicate identification, reduce false positive rates and improve overall data integrity. CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Sept. 28, 2012 – Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing … Continue reading

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Health Fidelity Releases REVEAL Version 2.0, a Next Generation Natural Language Processing Service Offering Rapid and Powerful Integration of Unstructured Data

Technology is being used in the EMR/EHR to get crucial information from the big data found in doctor’s notes, nurses notes, HIE information, comments, and other hospital data feeds to help better patient care and to automate the revenue cycle … Continue reading

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A2iA Enters into Partnership with World-Leading Diagnostic Testing Organization to Modernize Operations within its Primary Business Unit

NEW YORK, September 19, 2012 – A2iA (AHIMA Convention Booth 446), the worldwide leading developer of cursive handwriting and complex data recognition, and intelligent document classification software, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with one of the … Continue reading

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Sampling of opinions on meaningful use Stage 2

I’ve been an absentee blogger yet again the last few weeks. Here’s something to chew on while I get caught up, a sampling of all the statements I received regarding the Stage 2 final rules for meaningful use, in the … Continue reading

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Health IT Conferences 2012

The good people over at Search Health IT have put together a calendar of Healthcare IT related conferences happening in 2012. Just going through the list is a bit overwhelming and I’m sure they haven’t gotten each and every healthcare … Continue reading

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Hyperbole doesn’t work in health IT

I’m still rather slammed with work, but I might as well take a few minutes to post on a Friday afternoon to call out someone else who’s pumping up the health IT hype beyond reasonable levels. A publicist for UnitedHealth … Continue reading

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Hospital IT and Meaningful Use at AHIMA

When I was at AHIMA I didn’t have too much time to attend many sessions. However, I did drop in for 10 minutes here and there for a session. I wrote about the healthcare social media session over on EMR … Continue reading

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