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Clinical Documentation and Physician Burnout
Clinical documentation is one of the more tedious tasks that doctors are faced with and is a heavily contributing factor in the rise of physician burnout. In the constantly evolving and data driven...
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Investor Sharing Across the Healthcare Delivery System
Common investors in the healthcare delivery industry have historically been difficult to track. One recent study published in Health Affairs Magazine analyzing data from various sources concludes that...
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The Cost of Care: How AI is Revolutionizing Healthcare and Driving Down Prices
The cost of healthcare is once again at the center of a national debate. With premiums rising, the baby boomers aging, and diabetes, the most expensive disease in the world, affecting 10% of the US...
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Saince 2017 AHIMA Convention Scavenger Hunt
Saince will be participating in this year’s AHIMA Convention and Exhibit in Los Angeles, and will be hosting a Twitter scavenger hunt for event attendees! To play, take pictures of the following...
View ArticleSAINCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 89TH ANNUAL AHIMA CONVENTION AND EXHIBIT
Saince Will Be Exhibiting Several of Its Clinical Documentation Solutions at This Year’s Convention in Los Angeles, CA – October 7-11 Alpharetta, GA, October 2, 2017– In the ever-changing world of...
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The Prevalence and Consequences of Medical Errors in American Medicine
Part I There are numerous records that we maintain, or are maintained on us, over the course of our lives. Our school records track our grades and accolades. Our public records track our civic life...
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EMRs Taking Away Close to One-Third of Physicians’ Work Time – AMA
The EMR Time Crunch A common complaint among physicians across practices and specialties has been the amount of time that was previously spent attending to patients is now being occupied by clinical...
View ArticleHighlights of Quality Payment Program for Year 2 (Calendar Year 2018) Under...
Here are the highlights of the Final Rule for QPP for Year 2 under MACRA as announced by CMS yesterday: • Weighting the MIPS Cost performance category to 10% of your total MIPS final score, and the...
View ArticlePhysician Fee Schedule Final Policy for Calendar Year 2018
On November 2, CMS issued a final rule that includes updates to payment policies, payment rates, and quality provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or...
View ArticleHospital OPPS and ASC Payment System and Quality Reporting Programs Changes...
On November 1, CMS issued the CY 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System final rule with comment period, which includes updates to...
View ArticleCMS introduces new payment model for both inpatient and outpatient care
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the launch of a new voluntary bundled payment model called Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced). Under...
View ArticleCMS Announces Release of 2018 National Impact Assessment of Quality Measures...
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conducts and publishes an assessment of the quality and efficiency impact of the use of endorsed measures in CMS programs every three years as required...
View ArticleBetter Outpatient CDI For Emergency Care, Wound Care and Total Knee Replacement
As care is increasingly delivered in an outpatient setting, it is critical that clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs are developed to ensure compensation for care. “Clinical documentation...
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4 Factors to Consider for Optimizing CDI Workflows and Reporting
In recent years, the evolution of healthcare regulations has driven care away from the inpatient setting, while simultaneously increasing administrative and clinical documentation burdens for...
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Safeguarding Cyber security Amid CDI Efforts
Original: Cyber security, Coding and CDI. Best practices to ensure best practices for cyber security are employed. To say that the present state of healthcare cyber security poses a challenge for...
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Getting CDI Compliance Right From the Start
For decades, countless market observers have warned of turmoil in the healthcare space. The upheaval and endless changes have created a cacophony of compliance requirements that leave healthcare...
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EHRs, Documentation Leading to a Physician Burnout Crisis
Dictation and Transcription Improvements Cited as No. 1 Fix by Docs When they were kids thinking about their future career, physicians didn’t dream of taking care of administrative record-keeping. They...
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Dictation: Giving Physicians a Break While Avoiding Costly Medical Errors
Overworked professionals, regardless of industry, are far more likely to make mistakes. For medical professionals, however, particularly when it comes to documentation, those mistakes risk profound...
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When Pursuing CDI, Using Risk Adjustment Is Vital
As healthcare has moved away from fee-for-service reimbursement models toward a more value-based system, the idea of using risk adjustment to account for individual patient risk and chronic conditions...
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Study: Burnout is a Public Health Crisis, Support and Easing EHR Usability...
Sooner or later, the consequences of physician burnout will hit everyone where it hurts, a new study highlights. The report from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Global...
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