It’s Health Information Professionals Week and we want to take the time to thank all those who keep health information accurate, secure and accessible. Health information management (HIM) professionals are […]

Donald Fagen was co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter and keyboardist of the celebrated ‘70s jazz-rock duo Steely Dan. After the band broke up in 1981, Fagen released his debut solo album, […]

The burnout epidemic among health workers has become front-page news. It took a while, but here we are speaking openly about a problem that has drained our health care workforce […]

Each year 3M brings together some of the brightest minds in health care, clinical documentation and health information management at our annual 3M CES. It’s the place for leaders to […]

In this week’s blog I look at the labor force impact of large language models (LLMs) and a blog post by Bill Gates heralding a new era of artificial intelligence […]

In the United States today, black doctors are vastly underrepresented. Only 5 percent of physicians nationwide are black. Why is it so important to have better representation? What steps can […]

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems Division President Garri Garrison to talk about the upcoming HIMSS show in Chicago and what you can expect at the 3M […]

Facing the imminent insolvency of the Medicare Part A hospital insurance trust fund, Congress passed legislation in 1983 that implemented the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). The IPPS was […]

It was Tuesday, March 7, and it (most likely) happened something like this … a coder or coding manager was watching the ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance (C&M) virtual meeting on […]

As cloud computing enters its 18th year, (AWS started in 2006), massive workloads have been migrated to the cloud, cloud laws, standards and best practices have been enacted, and computing, […]

As the world of coding is always evolving, there were no surprises with the announcement of ICD-11 (11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases). The newest revision of ICD […]

I recently commented on a post in a physicians-only Facebook group to which I belong. The original post said that when physicians order imaging studies, we often order the wrong […]