BI’s March to Health Care - Information Management

Matching the practices of business intelligence (BI) to health care institutions is a process that has been steadily — if unevenly — taking place over the last two decades. Like any other industry, health care adheres to the topics and buzzwords ...

Discontinuation of Screening Mammography After Serious Health Events - Archives of Internal Medicine

Discontinuation of Screening Mammography After Serious Health EventsArchives of Internal MedicineWe identified health events using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes on Medicare inpatient claims forms and SEER cancer ...and more »

Coding Specialist - KBTX

Coding SpecialistKBTXThe qualified person will be responsible for complete and accurate coding, utilizing ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS guidelines. Certified coder with at least one year ...and more »

Alphabet Soup - ADVANCE

Alphabet SoupADVANCEThe three awesome presentations were: Laura Rizzo, MHA, RHIA, who spoke on "ICD-9-CM and Prospective Payment Overview," which was particularly interesting ...

Epocrates Expands iPhone Offerings with New Premium Content - YAHOO!

“I trust and use Epocrates on my iPhone everyday with patients at both the hospital and local clinic. I can ensure accurate decision making by quickly calling-up comprehensive drug and diagnostic information, and now much-needed billing codes to ...

Healthcare Standards: Vocabulary

For example, the ICD-9-CM vocabulary contains a rather large index which is incredibly valuable, along with a number of inclusions and exclusions. But to really make good use of the vocabulary you need the data associated with these ...

Orthopedic coders gear up for three new ICD-9 codes this Oct ...

Orthopedic coding is gearing up for some new ICD-9 additions: If your orthopedist treats children\'s arm problems on a regular basis, then you may make use of.