FDB provides customers with ICD-10-CM/PCS in advance of deadline

South San Francisco, CA – November 5, 2012 – First Databank (FDB), a leading provider of clinical drug knowledge that improves medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, announced the availability of the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases code set ICD-10-CM (clinical modification) and ICD-10-PCS (procedure coding system) within FDB MedKnowledge, the company’s ...

Healthcare BPO to bring in $1B in revenues by 2016, says industry group

The country’s healthcare information management outsourcing industry is projecting $1 billion revenues and 100,000 full-time employees by 2016. The sector’s full-time workforce has also been growing steadily, from 14,000 in 2010 to 24,700 in 2011 and to an expected 43,000 this year. Revenues have also been on the rise, from $102 million in 2010 to $277 million last year. Revenues for 2012 are ...

RamSoft Partners with M*Modal to Improve Radiology Workflows Through Advanced Speech Understanding

RamSoft, Inc. has partnered with M*Modal to offer embedded speech technology as an additional means of improving workflow for radiologists. Speech Understanding™ by M*Modal is seamlessly integrated with RamSoft’s PowerServer RIS/PACS, PACS and Tele Plus systems. It works with RamSoft’s embedded reporting tools such as structured reports based on RSNA guidelines as well as custom templates ...

Health Industries HIM In/Out Patient Coding Senior Associate - Healthcare IT News

Health Industries HIM In/Out Patient Coding Senior AssociateHealthcare IT NewsAs a Senior Associate, some responsibilities will include: Performing ICD-9-CM inpatient and CPT-4 outpatient periodic coding evaluations for clients; recognizing and developing suggestions for improvement in client processes or procedures; ...

Is Switch to New Medical Coding System Health Care’s Y2K Problem?

By October 1, 2013, physicians and other providers must be using ICD-10, the latest batch of codes used for diagnosis and billing.

WSJ: IT companies could get boost from health care coding switch

Some venture-backed information-technology companies that serve hospitals and health insurers are getting a boost from what analysts call the \"Y2K\" of health care.

Natural Language Processing to Play Major Role in Bringing Watson into Clinics

\"For the most part, the natural language analytics, the machine learning and the whole architecture are domain independent so we expect to be able plug these into the medical domain,\" she said.