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.

Comprehensive Orthopedics, PC Selects the Waiting Room Solutions EHR and Practice ... - Newswiretoday.com

To further insure the uniformity and accuracy of records for both providers and insurers, the system offers automated CPT coding and ICD-9 crosswalks. The software also facilitates labs and radiology through the integration of lab and pathology interfaces ...

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SciAnswers Social Media Website | Blog | ICD 9 Codes 2011 Where ...

We are past October 1, 2010, which means it\'s time to apply the new 2011 diagnosis codes affecting your ob-gyn practice. The new diagnosis codes include new...

Code Word on New ICD-10 - HomeCare

Code Word on New ICD-10HomeCareBALTIMORE — In preparation for the switch from the current ICD-9 diagnosis codes to the new ICD-10 code set on Oct. 1, 2013, CMS said last week it would ...

CMS to Enact Partial Code Freeze Before ICD-10 Implementation - Becker\'s Hospital Review

CMS to Enact Partial Code Freeze Before ICD-10 ImplementationBecker\'s Hospital ReviewThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a partial freeze on ICD-9-CM codes and ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes before implementation of ...and more »

The Rate of Triangular Fibrocartilage Injuries Requiring Surgical Intervention - Ortho SuperSite

The Rate of Triangular Fibrocartilage Injuries Requiring Surgical InterventionOrtho SuperSiteA retrospective chart review was performed to identify patients with ulnar-sided wrist pain identified with the appropriate ICD-9 code from September 2005 ...

RevenueMed Launches RevAbstract(TM) Services for Enhancing EMR/EHR ...

RevAudit(TM): Unbiased reviews of coding performance by analyzing chart data, principal diagnosis, relevant documentation, assigned ICD-9 codes and demographic data. RevBill(TM): RevenueMed\'s RevBill services offer an alternative to ...

Three VNA staff members are certified by their peers (Ridgefield Press)

Theresa Santoro, Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association president and CEO, successfully completed the Home Care Administrator Certificate Examination and is now a certified home care administrator.

RevenueMed Launches RevAbstract(TM) Services for Enhancing EMR/EHR Deployments (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

RevenueMed, the global leader in healthcare business process outsourcing, today announced the launch of RevAbstract Services for EMR/EHR implementations. The new service will leverage RevenueMed\'s extensive experience in medical records coding and data extraction to help deploying organizations get the most from their EMR/EHR investment by ensuring that critical historical data is present as the ...

Alpha II CodeSets Now Offered Directly to Medical Facilities (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

MONTGOMERY, Ala.----Alpha II, a leader in healthcare coding, compliance and reimbursement, announced today a medical coding content offering, supplying the customers of its developer partners with Alpha II CodeSets – including ICD-9 CM , CPT® and HCPCS codes.

US Health-Care System Upgrade Represents One of the Biggest Modernization ... - Government Technology

US Health-Care System Upgrade Represents One of the Biggest Modernization ...Government TechnologyFor decades, US medical organizations have been using ICD-9, the ninth revision of the code sets. But ICD-9, developed in the 1970s, has been showing its ...

HITECH incentives for electronic health records - Lexology (registration)

HITECH incentives for electronic health recordsLexology (registration)The standards also rely on existing classification and nomenclature systems including SNOMED CT®, ICD-9 and 10, X12, LOINC®, NCPDP and RxNorm. ...and more »

National Coding Specialist III/RAC Auditor - HealthcareFinanceNews.com

National Coding Specialist III/RAC AuditorHealthcareFinanceNews.comIn this role you will: Conduct data quality audits of inpatient admissions to validate ICD-9-CM diagnosis(es), principal DX, secondary DX (including MCC, ...