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AI Talk: Innovations and innovators
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Two articles caught my attention this week – one AI in Healthcare article on a list of Technology Pioneers curated by World Economic Forum and the other from MIT Technology […]
2020 burnout statistics and how AI brings hope for the future
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Physician burnout is reaching a crisis level. Statistics from the 2020 Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report show that burnout remains a major challenge that affects physician happiness, relationships […]
Strategy weaving: Using HCCs, MACRA and readmission reduction requirements to strategize performance improvement
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Far too often, healthcare organizations treat planning and execution as two separate processes which are intended to achieve a larger goal. Leadership makes plans and departments and workers are told […]
AI Talk: Trends, lawsuit, word associations and black or white?
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This week’s AI Talk… AI Healthcare Trends Last month, Forbes featured an article summarizing the trends in health care impacted by AI. The author, Terence Mills, is the CEO of […]
The role of diagnostic exams in population health and HCC reporting
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Diagnostic exams are an important way for hospitals and health systems to capture more complete, longitudinal patient information. Complete coding of diagnostic exams supports population health management and HCC reporting. […]
Developing a patient safety culture: What can we learn from other industries?
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The publication of the Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human: Building Safer Health System in 1999 raised awareness of medical errors, increased public concern and called for a […]
ICD-10-CM Excludes 1 notations impact the bottom line
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While reading AAPC’s Healthcare Business Monthly, April 2019, I came across an article about problem lists by Mary Wood and Michael Warner. The authors include an example of a poorly […]
Brave new world? CRISPR gene editing controversy
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I was sidetracked recently by an article regarding CRISPR biotechnology and the controversy surrounding its use. CRISPR is an abbreviation for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. You can Google […]
Addressing the epidemic of diet-related disease
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The prevention and management of chronic health conditions will have the greatest impact on reducing healthcare costs, improving quality of life and reducing mortality. A 2017 RAND study estimates that […]
Horizon for a New Year
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Like so many of you in the past week or so, I am on an airplane, going to visit family. So far I’ve been spending the flight alternately staring at […]
Hospitals and health systems address impact of social determinants and other non-medical factors
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In a representative survey of 300 hospitals and health systems, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions discovered that: “80 percent of hospital respondents reported that leadership is committed to establishing […]
Identifying what is working with accountable care organizations
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A primary objective of the Triple Aim for healthcare payers is to reduce costs associated with inefficient, ineffective, or medically unnecessary care. The accountable care organization, or ACO, has been […]