Dallas Ebola Patient Sent Home Because of EHR Snag - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

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DALLAS EBOLA PATIENT SENT HOME BECAUSE OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SNAG



By Olga Khazan

The Atlantic

October 3, 2014



Thomas Eric Duncan has been in isolation for Ebola at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since September 28—but that wasn't his first trip to that hospital. After developing a fever and abdominal pain on the 24th, Duncan sought care at the hospital on the 25th, but he was sent home.



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Interoperability, Winning Hospital IT Departments, and ICD-10 Woes #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Interoperability, Winning Hospital IT Departments, and ICD-10 Woes | Phoenix Health Systems





INTEROPERABILITY, WINNING HOSPITAL IT DEPARTMENTS, AND ICD-10 WOESSHARE:  

By Andrea Steffes-Tuttle | Comment | Categories: HIT News, ICD-10

JASON task force emphasizes the importance of a focus on interoperability.



The JASON task force, an independent group of science and technology experts that often advises the federal government, is preparing recommendations for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). The recommendations focus on interoperability. The task force plans to suggest a narrower set of requirements for meaningful use Stage 3 that focuses on interoperability.



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Coalition for ICD-10 Convenes on Capitol Hill: Event Recap | Coalition for ICD-10

Coalition for ICD-10 Convenes on Capitol Hill: Event Recap

by Coalition for ICD-10 on October 3, 2014

The Coalition for ICD-10 hosted a Capitol Hill briefing for House and Senate Congressional healthcare staffers on September 23, 2014 that featured a panel of speakers representing a broad spectrum of the healthcare community.Physicians, hospital executives, physician office managers, researchers and health plans all urged the adoption of the ICD-10 coding update in October 2015.

Summarized below is the commentary from each speaker at the event, as well as questions from the audience and responses from the panel speakers.

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Using ICD-10-CM - Chapter 4 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Using ICD-10-CM - Chapter 4 by John Dickey on Prezi



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ICD-10-CM Outpatient Coding and Reporting Guidelines - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

ICD-10-CM Outpatient Coding and Reporting Guidelines - CH 3 by John Dickey on Prezi



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The Countdown Begins: One Year to ICD-10 : #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

The Countdown Begins: One Year to ICD-10 : AAFP Leader Voices

The Countdown Begins: One Year to ICD-10

One year. That's how long we have to get ready for the official implementation of ICD-10. Oct. 1, 2015, is the day we have been nervously awaiting since July, when CMS confirmed that as the revised compliance date for the new coding system.

Later this month, the Academy will offer CME courses related to ICD-10 to help us prepare during the AAFP Assembly in Washington. Will your practice be ready?

Every time I read an article about ICD-10, I wonder how small practices like mine will survive this new hurdle. A study conducted by Nachimson Advisors and published by the AMA estimated that small practices could suffer costs between $56,000 and more than $226,000. A large practice's financial impact is estimated to range from $2 million to $8 million. These figures are three times what was estimated by the same research group just five years ago.

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What Happens When There’s No Medical Code for Your Condition? | #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

What Happens When There’s No Medical Code for Your Condition? | Real Business



What Happens When There’s No Medical Code for Your Condition?

SHAREOCTOBER 3, 2014 BY SACHIN SHENOLIKAR



Doctors and insurance companies have a particular way of communicating, through strings of letters and numbers that make up medical codes. A revision of these codes, which inform insurers why you saw the doctor, has been postponed until next fall.



Known as ICD-10, the delay of this medical coding system upgrade might seem inconsequential. The current system, called ICD-9, has been in use for decades — what’s one more year?



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ICD-10 Survey: Procrastination Rules - InformationWeek

ICD-10 Survey: Procrastination Rules

Without deadline pressure, ICD-10 progress has halted, says Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange study. Is anyone really surprised?

A recent survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) shows that provider readiness progress towards ICD-10 has stalled due to the government delay of the deadline for implementing the updated diagnosis and insurance codes. In March, Congress pushed the deadline from October 1, 2014 to October 1, 2015.

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The Deadline for ICD-10 Implementation is NOW #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

The Deadline for ICD-10 Implementation is Now

The ICD-10 Deadline for Implementation is Now

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The ICD-10 deadline is not as far away as you may think.

The conversion from ICD-9 has become the most urgent need in today’s healthcare community. And although all formats of healthcare media are promoting how to get ready for ICD-10, too many practices and hospitals are behind in the implementation /conversion process. Why is that? Many practices are distracted by decisions about business models, valuations of their practices and retirement decisions of baby boomer physicians. The Affordable Care Act has practices struggling to understand their role in that legislation while payers re-configure healthcare plans to meet the ACA standards. No small distractions and of course not to be taken lightly. IT demands are reforming healthcare as the demands for collection, storage, retrievability and the sharing of secure patient records appropriately requires strategic planning and expense.

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LONG TERM CARE LEADER: ICD-10 Updates #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

LONG TERM CARE LEADER: ICD-10 Updates

ICD-10 Updates

Dianne De La Mare

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sponsoring a conference call with CMS subject matter experts to discuss ICD-10 implementation, opportunities for testing and other resources on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 from 1:30-3:00PM, ET.

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Report: WEDI Survey Shows Progress in Planning for ICD-10 |#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

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Report: WEDI Survey Shows Progress in Planning for ICD-10

October 3, 2014, by Scott Rupp

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), one the nation’s leading nonprofit authorities on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the results of its findings from its August 2014 ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey.

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Kennedy University Hospitalists Adopt MedAptus #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Kennedy University Hospitalists Adopt MedAptus for Inpatient Charge Capture Automation

Kennedy University Hospitalists Adopt MedAptus for Inpatient Charge Capture Automation

Press release date: September 24, 2014

Team Benefits from Streamlined Pro Fee Coding Processes Ahead of ICD-10

BOSTON, – MedAptus® today announced that Kennedy University Hospitalists recently completed implementation of the company's Professional (Pro) Charge Capture solution.

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The Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

In part because ICD-10 was not in use.  this could have been prevented if the implementation was not delayed.





The Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software



The Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software



The Atlantic

Olga Khazan

1 day ago

Thomas Eric Duncan has been in isolation for Ebola at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since September 28—but that wasn't his first trip to that hospital. After developing a fever and abdominal pain on the 24th, Duncan sought care at the hospital on the 25th, but he was sent home.





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Crazy code covers killer whale bites, water ski burns #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Crazy code covers killer whale bites, water ski burns

By Ronald Franks3:56 p.m. CDT October 3, 2014





(Photo: Gannett)



Ever been bitten by a killer whale? Have you sustained burns while waterskiing? Been hit by a spaceship? Know someone who was sucked into a jet engine more than once?



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How to Accomplish Provider Credentialing #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

How to Accomplish Provider Credentialing

How to Accomplish Provider Credentialing

Posted by Harold Gibson on Thu, Oct 02, 2014

Since Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have become reality, along with Meaningful Use 2 guidelines, provider credentialing has taken center stage for health centers. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Policy Information Notice (PIN) 2001-16 credentialing requires that "all Health Centers assess the credentials of each licensed or certified health practitioner to determine if they meet Health Center standards." 

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EHR Flaw Led to Ebola Patient's Initial Discharge - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

EHR Flaw Led to Ebola Patient's Initial Discharge, Hospital Says - iHealthBeat

EHR Flaw Led to Ebola Patient's Initial Discharge, Hospital Says

Friday, October 3, 2014

A flaw in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's electronic health record system prevented an Ebola patient's doctor from seeing his travel history, leading to his discharge, according to hospital officials, Modern Healthcare reports (Frank, Modern Healthcare, 10/3)

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FDA Aims To Boost HIT as Part of 4-Year Strategic Plan - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

FDA Aims To Boost Health IT as Part of Four-Year Strategic Plan - iHealthBeat

FDA Aims To Boost Health IT as Part of Four-Year Strategic Plan

Friday, October 3, 2014

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FDA has released a four-year strategic plan that includes goals for advancing and improving the agency's use of health IT, Health Data Management reports (Slabodkin, Health Data Management, 10/3).

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AHIMA goes beyond the # in the ICD-10 debate on social #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

AHIMA goes beyond the hashtag in the ICD-10 debate on social media | ICD10 Watch

AHIMA goes beyond the hashtag in the ICD-10 debate on social media

Posted on Wed, Oct 01, 2014 - 11:20 pm

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is fighting for ICD-10 implementation on social media.

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Tips for Landing Your First HIM Job #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

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Road to 10: The Small Practice’s Route to #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

https://providers.amerigroup.com/Public Documents/ALL_RoadtoICD10.pdf



Road to 10: The Small Practice’s Route to ICD-10

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released Road to 10, a free online resource



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ICD-10 outsourcing just got more interesting #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

ICD-10 outsourcing just got more interesting | Medical Practice Insider

ICD-10 outsourcing just got more interesting

October 01, 2014 | Mike Miliard - Contributing Editor

Medical groups that grew a little more wary when Oct. 1, 2014 arrived, thereby marking one year left until ICD-10 compliance, might want to start paying attention to a new option.

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$ Key Staffing Models Leading Up to ICD-10 - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Focus on Staffing: Four Key Staffing Models Leading Up to ICD-10 - M*Modal

Focus on Staffing:

Four Key Staffing Models Leading Up to ICD-10

Coding organizations are looking to create – or travel further along – a path to high performance in the final run-up to ICD-10. Many future challenges are fairly well understood, such as the coder shortage, and the inevitable productivity hit with the seven-fold increase in available codes. Yet some uncertainties remain – including the level of detail required in completion of the outpatient coding process, and whether individual facilities or insurers will require ICD-10-PCS codes to be assigned even though they are not required by the federal mandate.

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ICD-10 Survey: Procrastination Rules - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

ICD-10 Survey: Procrastination Rules - InformationWeek

ICD-10 Survey: Procrastination Rules

Without deadline pressure, ICD-10 progress has halted, says Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange study. Is anyone really surprised?

A recent survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) shows that provider readiness progress towards ICD-10 has stalled due to the government delay of the deadline for implementing the updated diagnosis and insurance codes. In March, Congress pushed the deadline from October 1, 2014 to October 1, 2015.

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Prescription for job growth: Medical coders in demand #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Prescription for job growth: Medical coders in demand



Prescription for job growth: Medical coders in demand 

Mary Thompson | @MThompsonCNBC
3 Hours Ago

Dealing with emergencies is nothing new to the heath care industry, and while not life threatening, a lack of skilled medical coders threatens to disrupt one of the critical elements a hospital needs to stay up and running—insurance payments.



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5 quick tips for ICD-10 compliance #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

5 quick tips for ICD-10 compliance | Healthcare Finance News

5 quick tips for ICD-10 compliance

Suggestions for using the extra year wisely

October 2, 2014

Even though the deadline for ICD-10 implementation is just a year away, many healthcare entities report not being ready.

The freshest evidence: A survey released in September 2014 by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), revealed that less than 11 percent of healthcare organizations are fully ready for the transition – a statistic that is not surprising to anyone paying attention to ICD-10. But what’s a bit disconcerting is the 72 percent who indicated they are in various states of readiness, including those who have yet to even start.

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October 1: What should have been for ICD-10 in 2014 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

October 1: What should have been for ICD-10 in 2014 | EHRintelligence.com

October 1: What should have been for ICD-10 in 2014

Author Name Kyle Murphy, PhD   |   Date October 2, 2014  

Today was supposed to be the second day of the ICD-10 era in American healthcare, finally bringing the nation’s coding system up-to-date. To the chagrin of many prominent associations representing healthcare organizations, providers, and professionals, the reality is still a year away

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AHIMA leadership addresses ICD-10 delay and implementation #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

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AHIMA leadership addresses ICD-10 delay and implementation

Author Name Jennifer Bresnick   |   Date October 2, 2014  

It may come as no surprise that ICD-10 was the primary topic of conversation at the 2014AHIMA Convention in San Diego this week, considering that the meeting fell on the erstwhile implementation date of the new code set.  October 1, 2015 may be the new day for providers to mark on their calendars, but the general feeling on the show floor was prepared anticipation instead of dread or dragging feet.

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Small Providers Still Challenged By ICD-10 - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Small Providers Still Challenged By ICD-10

Small Providers Still Challenged By ICD-10

By Katie Wike, contributing writer

A WEDI survey shows that while delays to the deadline for ICD-10 were expected to lessen the burden on providers, they have in fact made the transition more difficult for some.

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Exchange (WEDI) issued a letter to HHSoutlining the results of their recent survey of more than 300 providers, 87 vendors, and 103 health plans.

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At Swedish Medical Center, CDI is Paramount - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

At Swedish Medical Center, Clinical Documentation Integrity is Paramount

At Swedish Medical Center, Clinical Documentation Integrity is Paramount

With an in-depth CDI strategy, Swedish has achieved substantial ROI

In the era of healthcare reform initiatives aimed at increasing transparency, accurate clinical documentation has become vital. Undoubtedly, healthcare organizations are realizing that when you can effectively tell a patient’s story, the quality of care is improved. And for that to happen, the leaders of any patient care organization must insist on clinical documentation improvement (CDI)

Get ROI from CDI, including ICD-10

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Medications most frequently caused fatal anaphylaxis in US | #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Medications most frequently caused fatal anaphylaxis in US | Allergy Immunology



Studies like this show part of the need for ICD-10 and common coding of events



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Local environment impacts provider ability to adopt interoperable health IT #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

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Local environment impacts provider ability to adopt interoperable health IT

October 2, 2014 | By Julie Bird



The local environment affects a provider's ability to adopt and use interoperable health IT, according to an Urban Institute study recently released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.



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Major Drivers Of Global Healthcare Analytics #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

Report Reveals Major Drivers Of Global Healthcare Analytics

Report Reveals Major Drivers Of Global Healthcare Analytics

By Christine Kern

A new analysis predicts significant growth in the global healthcare analytics market during the next four years.

According to a new analysis fromResearch Fox Consulting, federal healthcare mandates and benefits associated with the utilization of analytics are among several drivers of the global healthcare analytics, which is projected to be worth more than $10 billion by 2018.

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About the 'belief in God' requirement in Scouting #BSA #Scouting

About the 'belief in God' requirement in Scouting



The article is good, the conversation is fantastic. very little trolling or judgement.  Probably the best discussion I have seen on a subject that tends to raise hackles.

Boy Scout amendment eyed - NewsandSentinel.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Boy Scout amendment eyed - NewsandSentinel.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Nixa Boy Scout Earns All 139 Badges | KSMU Radio

Wow, as A Scoutmaster, and an Eagle Scout.  Just wow.  did he have time for any fun?



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AHIMA gives Capitol Hill some good arguments for ICD-10 implementation

Posted on Thu, Sep 25, 2014 - 10:06 pm

Maybe the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) should take its show on the road.

I'm talking about Sue Bowman, AHIMA’s senior director of coding policy and compliance, and company presenting the ICD-10 briefing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

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Technology Public Health Initiatives Need Bolstered To Help Battle Ebola #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters

For the record, Ebola scares the crap out of me.



Technology Public Health Initiatives Need Bolstered To Help Battle Ebola

Technology, Public Health Initiatives Need Bolstered To Help Battle Ebola

By Christine Kern

Feds ratchet up public health and tech efforts in the battle to stop the spread of Ebola.

The current Ebola outbreak is gearing up to get worse before it gives in to methods of abatement. According to projections by theU.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, the number of infected people could potentially double every 20 days if nothing is done – a figure that could skyrocket to 1.4 million by January’s end.

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The Greater Good and ICD-10 - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters

We are all calling our reps and senators, we are all calling our state reps.

We need celebrity endorsement of the cause..

I encourage Dr. Nancy Snyderman  https://plus.google.com/108193683342883133875/posts  on G+ and @DrNancyNBCNEWS on twitter

I encourage Dr. Jon Lapook +CBSNews  @DrLaPook on twitter

I encourage Dr. Richard Besser, M.D. @DrRichardBesser

I encourage Dr. Oz  +DrOz on G+  @DrOz on Twitter 

AND any other celebrity Doctor/Medical expert with a handle on the public's opinion, to champion the cause for ICD-10.

ICD-9 has no code for Ebola, but that is only part of the story.  Without the specificity in ICD-10 we cannot advance the health of the nation and protect ourselves or our loved ones.

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The Greater Good and ICD-10 - HITECH Answers : HITECH Answers

The Greater Good and ICD-10

August 11, 2014 | 

The Value of Precise Morbidity Data

By Rosann M. O’Dell, D.H.Sc., MS, RHIA, CDIP
Twitter: @RosannMODell

In May of 1990, the 43rd World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization endorsed the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) and recommended it for international use. Since that time, the adoption of ICD-10 in the United States remains complicated despite United States participation at the World Health Assembly in 1990. As of the present day, a clinical modification of ICD-10 (or, the United States version ICD-10-CM/PCS) remains available but not yet implemented

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