Computer Assisted Coding Can’t Replace Competent Coders
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Are you familiar with IBM’s supercomputer Watson? IBM’s stated aspiration is to make it “the world’s best diagnostician,” because it can store way more medical information than a human doctor and makes decisions based on evidence, free of cognitive biases. It is consistent, and, according to the company, “given the same inputs, Dr. Watson will always output the
same diagnosis.” What if a flawed human doctor inputs incomplete or inaccurate data for Watson...
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5 Findings From Nationwide ICD-10 Coding Contest
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More than 550 coders registered with Central Learning to code 1,859 cases in September. The website scored ICD-10 coding accuracy and productivity levels using medical record cases against a vetted, standardized answer key based on...
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Computer Assisted Coding: An Auditor’s Findings
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The use of computer-assisted coding (also known as CAC) software is becoming more widespread in the coding industry, particularly in the coding of inpatient claims. It’s not a surprising trend, really, given the many known benefits of implementing a CAC system. Computer-assisted coding software helps streamline the coding workflow,
reducing...
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Careful Planning Can Reduce Vaccine Associated Losses
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Vaccine administration is an important element of primary care practice, and a critical contribution to preventive care public health. But as vaccine and overhead costs continue to rise—particularly for private practices—physicians can have a difficult time aligning expenses with
revenues.
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Transformation with Transplantation |
My cousin was 45 years old and suffered a heart attack when closing his pool for the season. He went from admission for his heart attack to heart catheterization to coronary artery bypass graft to placement on the transplant list. Quite a blow for a man who served his country during the Vietnam War and then working at the local
factory...
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