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Juggy JagannathanJuggy Jagannathan

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AI talk: Super sizing language models

April 29, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

Super sizing language models There is competition brewing in the world of language models. In the summer of 2020, I blogged about GPT-3, a mega-language model from Open AI. Also […]

Adam RothschildAdam Rothschild

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Principles of technology enabled medical practice

April 27, 2022 / By Adam Rothschild, MD

I split my working time between practicing family medicine and helping to develop virtual health care technology. My work on this technology allows me to bring into reality some ideas […]

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National 3M study finds differences in health care delivery system performance for Medicare beneficiaries in low socioeconomic areas

April 25, 2022

Medicare beneficiaries in low socioeconomic status (SES) areas have fewer physician and care management visits and are less likely to be admitted from the emergency department for low severity medical […]

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Meet our new Inside Angle podcast hosts: Dr. Melissa Clarke and Dr. Travis Bias

April 21, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, Melissa Clarke, MD

We’re so excited to welcome our new Inside Angle podcast hosts! Dr. Melissa Clarke is the senior medical director for health care transformation and health equity, and Dr. Travis Bias […]

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Coding tips: How to code viral sepsis

April 18, 2022 / By Roxana Safari

Coding viral sepsis has been a challenge for coders and has triggered many questions in coding communities since 2016. The question has reemerged during ongoing pandemic with rise of COVID-19 […]

Juggy JagannathanJuggy Jagannathan

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The ABCs of artificial intelligence

April 15, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize health care and mitigate clinicians’ administrative burden. Many health systems, however, are still only in the earliest stages of changing their workflows […]

Karla VonEschenKarla VonEschen

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ICD-11: Navigating the basics

April 13, 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 on how the proposed changes could […]

Steve DelarondeSteve Delaronde

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Is value-based care really a “value” if patients can’t afford it?

April 11, 2022 / By Steve Delaronde

Paying for value makes sense. It incents health care providers to maximize patient outcomes relative to price rather than the number of office visits, lab tests or medical procedures they […]

Juggy JagannathanJuggy Jagannathan

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AI Talk: Metaverse and health care

April 8, 2022 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

Last month I saw an excellent article in Time Magazine by Sasha Brodsky about how virtual reality is changing health care. The thrust of the article was that virtual reality […]

Jason Burke.Jason Burke.

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Three questions with Jason Burke: Autonomous coding and the cloud

April 7, 2022 / By Jason Burke, Kelli Christman

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems VP of revenue cycle solutions Jason Burke to talk about autonomous coding and why moving to the cloud can help you […]

Richard WetherbeeRichard Wetherbee

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HCCs: An awareness perspective

April 6, 2022 / By Richard Wetherbee

The idea that, at some point in each of our lives, we may become acutely ill, eventually leading to the development of a chronic medical condition is a very real […]

Jean StonerJean Stoner

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Answer: CPT-4 coding challenge: Coding nerve blocks 64400-64455

April 4, 2022 / By Jean Stoner

We recently presented a CPT-4 coding challenge with an example of a trigger finger release. We’ll repeat the example and provide the answer. What CPT-4 code(s) should be assigned for […]