More ICD-10 Infographics
Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. Here are selected ICD-10 Infographics.
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Big Data and Analytics – Part 2
By Sarianne Gruber – Michael Dulin, MD, PhD was a featured speaker at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum, held in New York City in June. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Dulin at the conference and learn about the Carolinas HealthCare System’s Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group.
Big Data and Analytics
By Sarianne Gruber – Michael Dulin, MD, PhD was a featured speaker at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum, held in New York City in June. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Dulin at the conference and learn about the Carolinas HealthCare System’s Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group.
Accountable Care Organization Investment Model
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to provide coordinated, high-quality care to their Medicare patients to help them deliver better care at lower cost.
Sensentia Pulls the “Meaning” Out of Health Insurance Plans
By Sarianne Gruber – Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Administration – Getting information from your health insurance company such as the cost of a co-pay, treatment coverage, or perhaps a low cost MRI or CAT scan facility within your network, can be a frustrating.
Safe Harbor: Unnecessary with Dangerous Consequences
Multiple bills have been introduced in Congress that create a “safe harbor” for physicians by prohibiting claims from being denied “due solely to the use of an unspecified or inaccurate [ICD-10] subcode” (H.R.2247) or “for errors, mistakes or malfunctions” relating to submissions of ICD-10 codes (H.R. 2652).
Health Research Institute Medical Cost Trend for 2016 Report
PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) projects U.S. medical inflation will dip to 6.5 percent in 2016, capping a ten-year trend of slowing employer medical cost-trend growth in the employer-sponsored market.
Why “Speaking Doctor” is Important for Population Health
By Dr. Anthony Oliva – Being able to “speak doctor” ensures that physicians are accurately capturing the level they provide to patients, and enables healthcare organizations to correctly identify their patient populations and predict their future healthcare needs.
Concierge Medicine: A Thought Provoking Form of Practice
By Matthew Fisher – Concierge medicine is a term and concept often discussed, but at the same time often not fully understood. It is not necessarily a new model of practice, but it has gained significantly increased attention since passage of the Affordable Care Act.