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July 18, 2022 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
The transition to ICD-11 is coming, and 3M HIS is here to help. We’ll debrief the major updates for you and provide an analysis of how the proposed changes could […]
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July 15, 2022 / By Gregg Perfetto, Clark Cameron
Explaining what we do for 3M isn’t always easy. Truth is, for most 3Mers, the minute you tell someone that you work for 3M, they ask you if you make […]
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July 13, 2022 / By Steve Cantwell
In February 2022, the world lost one of its greatest health care innovators. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), died at 62 years old, after a lifetime […]
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July 11, 2022 / By Kelli Christman, Melissa Clarke, MD
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Senior Medical Director of Health Care Transformation and Health Equity Dr. Melissa Clarke to talk about population health and how, through technology, […]
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July 8, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
In this week’s blog, I explore the rationale behind using artificial intelligence (AI) that combines clinical knowledge and deep neural models in deploying health care solutions. Balancing knowledge and neural […]
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July 6, 2022 / By Amanda Steffon
Pearl S. Buck, Pulitzer and Noble Prize-winning novelist, said “The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.” How we care for those […]
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June 29, 2022 / By Courtney Crozier, RHIA, CCS
It feels like only yesterday that the health care industry was preparing for the new Evaluation and Management (E/M) 2021 guidelines, which brought about significant change. Just when we’re all […]
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June 27, 2022 / By Gregg Perfetto
Do you wonder what keeps CFOs up at night? No, just me? Well, in case you were wondering, here are some questions every CFO asks themselves: How can my facility […]
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June 22, 2022 / By Keri Hunsaker
Prospective review or retrospective audit: Which is more effective? Coding accuracy reviews and audits are designed to ensure health care organizations provide the most accurate and compliant representation of the […]
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June 20, 2022 / By Melissa Clarke, MD
For all the wonderful advancement in health care diagnostics and therapeutics, the U.S. health care system has yet to solve for high costs of care while also improving outcomes. These […]
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June 17, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week I sample a collection of new AI-based solutions that hit my radar. Interview assist I was fascinated by a new tool from Google, which takes conversational assistant technology […]
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June 15, 2022 / By Steve Delaronde
The contribution of scientific knowledge to the improvement of health care is self-evident. Medicine, devices, surgical techniques and diagnostic tools have improved and saved countless lives over the past century. […]