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Tag: COVID-19

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World Cancer Day: “I Am and I Will”

Feb. 1, 2021 / By Kelly Long, BS, CPC, CPCO, CAPM

World Cancer Day, which falls on Feb 4, 2021 seeks to build awareness across the international community that cancer can lead to preventable suffering and injustice, and that efforts are […]

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AI Talk: Modeling inoculations and machine learning startups

Jan. 22, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

This week’s AI Talk… Modeling inoculations Recently we have been hearing this familiar refrain: “Vaccines do not prevent COVID-19– vaccinations do!”  It looks like we now have an approach to […]

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Three reasons not to celebrate the end of surprise medical bills

Jan. 20, 2021 / By Steve Delaronde

After narrowly missing an opportunity at the end of 2019 to end the outrage surrounding surprise medical bills, the United States Congress finally agreed to ban most of them. The […]

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Innovations in health care delivery: CVS Health

Jan. 15, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

People with chronic health conditions face many challenges as they work to manage those conditions to the best of their ability. A 2018 survey of certified diabetes educators asked how […]

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COVID-19 vaccine distribution: Independent primary care practices are suffering

Jan. 6, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

We’ve had months and months to plan. We have expert guidance on how to prioritize COVID-19 vaccine distribution in ways most likely to benefit all Americans, and yet in the […]

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Measuring our ability to respond to future pandemics

Jan. 4, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP

Fragmented systems lead to fragmented pandemic responses. Or that’s what I took from this Lancet piece published recently.  The opportunities to improve the U.S. public health and health care systems […]

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A pandemic, an election and the census: What will data tell us about 2020?

Dec. 30, 2020 / By Amanda Steffon

What can be said about 2020 except what a year! So much has happened in just twelve months. While none of us will desire to return to this time, we […]

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A look back at popular blogs of 2020

Dec. 28, 2020

To say 2020 has been an “unprecedented” year is an understatement. We hope our COVID-19 resources and blogs have helped you navigate the pandemic. Take a look back at Inside […]

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Three questions with Liz Guyton

Dec. 16, 2020 / By Liz Guyton, Kelli Christman

Kelli sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Vice President of the U.S. and Canada Liz Guyton, CPA, to look ahead to 2021 and highlight stories from clients on the […]

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Work life balance during a pandemic

Dec. 7, 2020 / By Rachael Howe, RN, MS

2020 has thrown plenty of curve balls at everyone. One thing that has affected many of our lives is transitioning from in person to virtual work settings. In addition, many […]

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More COVID-19 diagnosis and procedure codes: ICD-10-CM/PCS and MS-DRGs updated for January 1, 2021

Dec. 1, 2020 / By Rhonda Butler

In response to the national emergency declared for the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has implemented six new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes and CMS has implemented 21 new ICD-10-PCS procedure codes for […]

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The vax method to the COVID-19 madness: Vaccine development in a pandemic

Nov. 30, 2020 / By Precious Porter, RN, BSN

With the recent good news regarding potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, I thought it would be helpful to blog about the vaccine development process and how that process has evolved during the […]