NLP keeps CMS billing and coding compliant
Dr. Calum Yacoubian, director of healthcare strategy at IQVIA, talks about how natural language processing can help Medicare Advantage organizations avoid penalties by ensuring that their coding is accurate and compliant. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Whole person care gets a boost from value-based contracts
Jaja Okigwe, CEO of First Choice Health, explains how risk-based contracts can allow providers to think more holistically about patients, rather than focusing on billing for services. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - January 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Provider group to pay $24.5M for False Claims Act allegations; acute care hospitals to see 3.2% payment increase
This week ' s top stories include Physician Partners of America being accused of billing federal programs for unnecessary medical testing and services, among other violations, and CMS estimates that payments to hospitals will increase in 2023 by $1.6B. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - April 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Gravie works to reduce out-of-pocket costs and get hospitals paid up-front
Ben Simmons, VP of insurance at Gravie, says that Gravie Pay takes the " gotchas " out of healthcare billing. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

November 2021: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: Properly Naming the Sinusitis-Otitis-Conjunctivitis Syndrome
Dr. Mellick says the conjunctivitis-otitis syndrome should be renamed as the sinusitis-otitis-conjunctivitis syndrome because sinusitis is almost assuredly the primary and initial infection leading to otitis media and conjunctivitis, and it deserves priority billing. Watch this video, and learn more in his blog at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - October 30, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video

National Library of Medicine Informatics Lecture Series: Use of Clinical Big Data to Inform Precision Medicine
Abstract: Precision medicine offers the promise of improved diagnosis and more effective, patient-specific therapies. Typically, clinical research studies have been pursued by enrolling a cohort of willing participants in a town or region, and obtaining information and tissue samples from them. At Vanderbilt, Dr. Denny and his team have linked phenotypic information from de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) to a DNA repository of nearly 200,000 samples, creating a ‘virtual’ cohort. This approach allows study of genomic basis of disease and drug response using real-world clinical data. Finding the right inf...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video