Computer Assisted Professional Coding is Helping St. Joseph ’ s Be More Resilient
The team at St. Joseph’s Health in NJ implemented computer assisted professional coding (CAPC) to streamline their revenue cycle management processes. The resulting improvements are helping the organization be more resilient in these challenging times.
Dr. Beth Kushner, Chief Medical Information Officer at St. Joseph’s, recently sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the revenue cycle management (RCM) improvements her team has made.
Efficient RCM Processes are Critical
Dr. Kushner has a passion for RCM. She strongly believes that having efficient RCM processes are critical in these tight economic times or a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AGS Health AHIMA CAC CAPC clean claim rate Computer Assisted Coding computer assisted professional codin Source Type: blogs
Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers
The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.
Fragmented Systems and Standards: One of the primary stumbling blocks in achieving interoperability is the existence of fragmented systems and divergent standards. Healthcare organization...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations Security and Privacy Anthony Murray Health Data Privacy Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Interoperability Health Source Type: blogs
Leading Healthcare Payer Consulting Firm HealthScape Advisors Joins Chartis
This Acquisition Positions Chartis to Help Clients Achieve Transformational Healthcare Change
Chartis, a leading healthcare advisory firm, today announced that it has acquired HealthScape Advisors, a leading healthcare payer consulting firm. Based in Chicago with 160 professionals, HealthScape helps payers across all segments, including commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, and federal, navigate the evolving healthcare landscape.
The acquisition of HealthScape is Chartis’ next step to meaningfully expand its work in the healthcare payer segment, following its acquisition of crankfrog in 2022. HealthScape strengthens Chart...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Chartis crankfrog Greg Maddrey Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthScape HealthScape Advisors Kyle Stern Lincoln International LLC Ropes & Gray LLP Source Type: blogs
An analysis of History Written on the Water
My most recent song is out now for streaming and download via BandCamp. I’ve already talked about how it came to be and alluded to the origins of the title in the engraving on young English poet John Keats’ headstone – Here Lies One Whose Name was writ in Water
With this song History Written on the Water I tried to weave a tapestry of imagery and metaphor, exploring themes of secrets, betrayal, faithlessness, loss, and the relentless passage of time.
Secrets and Betrayal: My lyrics refer to secrets, suggesting that there are hidden truths that have been concealed or obscured. Lines like “The secret...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Best books on cognitive ability and skills according to ChatSpot and ChatGPT
As a follow-up to the article Best books on brain health and cognitive fitness according to ChatSpot and ChatGPT we decided to find out what these popular AI chatbots say about books to understand and improve cognitive ability and skills.
Here you are:
(Links open corresponding Amazon book pages)
Best books on cognitive ability and skills, per ChatSpot:
Here are some highly recommended books on cognitive ability and skills:
1. “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman: This book explores the two systems of thinking that drive our decision-making processes and provides insights into cognitive biases and how to improv...
Source: SharpBrains - February 21, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Books Education & Lifelong Learning Brain Teasers Brain-Plasticity ChatGPT ChatSpot cognitive biases cognitive-abilities cognitive-ability cognitive-skills decision-making-skills Source Type: blogs
NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Presubmission Webinar
We’re pleased to announce a presubmission webinar for the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program (PAR-23-137). The next application due date is June 7, 2024.
SEPA supports educational activities for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 to ensure that students and teachers from all communities and regions of the country have the opportunity to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). SEPA also supports informal STEM education activities outside the classroom.
STEM educators interested in applying for SEPA funding are strongly encouraged to attend the webinar to learn ...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 20, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Preparing an Application SEPA Webinars Source Type: blogs
Netsmart Leverages AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve Care and Identify Suicide Risk
Tom Herzog, chief operating officer of Netsmart, says that “digitization has always been about entering data into the system” and that users are asking, “What does the system do for me?” It’s time to “aggregate” that data and get a million “second opinions.”
Matthew Arnheiter, senior vice president of innovations, described Netsmart’s project with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council (MBHC) to use predictive analytics and identify people at risk of suicide. Their AI system ingested data across the “silos” of more than 30 behavioral health providers...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System behavioral health EHR AI Assistant Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Assistant Healthcare IT Video Interv Source Type: blogs
The Digital Front Door in Healthcare Doesn ’ t Work Without Data from Across Systems
While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more. Plus, patients are engaging with the healthcare system on social media, on ratings and review websites, through ads, and other third party websites. Yes, and the EHR has patient data too. However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Bill Bruno Celebrus Digital Front Door Health Data Sharing Healthcare Consumerism Source Type: blogs
Language Equity in Medical Education
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM, Débora Silva, MD, MEd, and Bright Zhou, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss strategies to address language-related health disparities and enhance language-appropriate training and assessment in medical education. They explore one specific language concordant education framework, Culturally Reflective Medicine, which recognizes and supports the lived experiences and expertise of multi-lingual learners and clinicians from minoritized communities.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcast...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast diversity and inclusion language equity medical education medical education scholarship patient care Source Type: blogs
Circulating Protein Biomarkers Correlate with Future Risk of Dementia
Researchers here demonstrate a predictive biomarker panel for Alzheimer's disease risk based on protein levels assessed in a blood sample. This is a one of a number of similar tests developed in recent years. The question is what one might do given a measurement that suggests high risk of Alzheimer's disease. At present, the only option is to generally improve lifestyle choices, but Alzheimer's is not as correlated with lifestyle factors as is the case for, say, type 2 diabetes. Based on the suggestion that senescent cells are important to neurodegeneration, one might take senolytic drugs intermittently, a few times a year...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 20, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What Psychedelic Practitioners Can Learn from Eye Surgeons About'Soft Furniture' Method Patent Reform
Laurel Kilgour, What Psychedelic Practitioners Can Learn from Eye Surgeons About ' Soft Furniture ' Method Patent Reform (2023): The article proposes targeted patent reform tailored to the emerging field of psychedelic facilitation, drawing parallels to historical patent disputes in the medical... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
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IncantationHer name looked like a magical spellWhen written out in her native tongueAll I had to do was whisper it And my heart was bewitchedFor me it ’s simple to comprehend Others see gibberishThe glyphs a child would draw If told to invent a new language My struggle is with proper pronunciationA youth spent learning how to say new wordsBased on how they sounded in my headWhile silently reading I still recall the strange looks on faces the first time I saidassuageOut loud, not realizing it was supposed to rhyme with rage 2/20/24 (Source: Buckeye Surgeon)
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - February 20, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
To What Degree is Alzheimer's Disease a Modern Phenomenon?
Here find an interesting commentary on what might be gleaned of the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in antiquity from the body of ancient writings on the topic of aging, memory, and health. The consensus is that Alzheimer's disease is a creation of modernity, some combination of a longer life expectancy for a greater fraction of the population coupled with increased calorie intake and less active lives. Yet unlike type 2 diabetes, risk of Alzheimer's risk doesn't correlate well with the usual suspect lifestyle choices that raise the risk of age-related disease and lower life expectancy.
This line of thinking has l...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group
This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.
Evaluating This Study
TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. After deploying the Nabla ambient voice solution in October 2023, the organization quickly built up a large database of AI-generated clinical notes to run through their study.
Note that this study was carried out by the team at TPMG who installed the ambient voice solution. A study by an independent organization would be more authoritative. But results were strong enough for us to pay attentio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Voice Technology EHR Clinical Documentation Healthcare Generative AI Nabla PDQI-9 The Source Type: blogs
Austin-Based Vital Interaction Closes $15M Series A Funding Round to Revamp Patient Communication with Hyper-Personalization
Vital Interaction, a healthcare technology company that combines healthcare data, business intelligence, and workflow automation, today announced the closing of $15 million in Series A funding led by Austin-based Next Coast Ventures. Vital Interaction uses key practice and patient data to ensure patients follow through on prescribed care plans, recalling and reactivating both new and existing patients to encourage follow-up appointments and reduce patient churn. It uses appointment, clinical, and billing data to generate automated, customizable campaigns for targeted patient outreach.
By analyzing millions of these patient...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ben Chapman Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Michael Smerklo Next Coast Ventures Vital Interaction Source Type: blogs
