In part one of the untold story of COVID-19’s impact on healthcare quality, we looked at the negative effect COVID-19 has had on the U.S. healthcare system. Now, let’s look […]

For many, August means summer BBQs, evening baseball and back-to-school shopping. For us, it means the Solventum Client Experience Summit (CES). Solventum CES brings together some of the brightest minds […]

I sat down with Jason Burke, vice president of revenue cycle solutions at Solventum, to talk about shifting the revenue cycle closer to the point of care, taking a layered […]

The pre-pandemic world feels like a distant memory when it comes to healthcare. Before COVID-19, hospitals hummed with a steady rhythm of admissions, procedures and discharges. Quality metrics (the numbers […]

I sat down with Kaitlyn Crowther, product manager for Solventum to discuss resources and targeted content available for clinical documentation integrity (CDI professionals at the 2024 Solventum Client Experience Summit […]

As a former director of clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and health information management (HIM), I know that the need for optimized sequencing of diagnosis codes on a claim within the […]

I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion with the ACDIS Leadership Council on April 14, 2023. The topic of discussion was, “Optimized Comprehensive CDI Programs.” A nationwide […]

Have you ever noticed how fashion trends make their way back around every few decades? The same thing happens with health care hot topics. Recently the topic of length of […]

Health care has long been focused on delivering quality clinical care that results in positive patient outcomes. Unfortunately, clinical excellence is not always accurately captured in quality ratings and rankings […]

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 […]

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems VP of CDI Paul Whitaker to talk about his unique background that led him to 3M HIS, how the pandemic has […]

Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) have been used in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) risk adjustment payment model since 2004. That’s 17 years! More and more HIM professionals […]