ICD-10 & Coding

Also, New Zealand's Ministry of Health has come out with two new vaccination management tools.

Sumit Rana, head of research and development, discusses how the EHR giant’s system uses AI to generate progress notes, create draft responses to patient questions and assist with medical coding. And how AI sometimes can be more empathetic than a person.

If they want to apply these models, it has to be hosted locally to preserve data integrity, said Dr Roel Bolt, CMIO of Franciscus Hospital.

A FHIR-based protocol that improves clinical workflows is improving pneumonia treatment in the ER, says Kathryn Kuttler, Darren Mann and Dr. Peter Haug at Intermountain Healthcare in a preview of their HIMSS23 presentation.

Also, AIIMS New Delhi is set to go all digital for payments next year.

It supports the collaboration among CDI specialists in reviewing patient charts and keeping a record of actions.

This form of AI has made progress in diagnosis and medical coding. An expert discusses why it has yet to plow further.

The staff used the technology for outpatient evaluation, management coding and documentation, greatly improving processes and performance.

“A big contributing factor to this success was the creation of auto-text templates for common procedures, all pre-verified by coders to meet billing requirements,” said the health system’s CMIO.

The list of healthcare jobs the AHIMA Foundation program can help fill and upskill is long and varied, including clinical documentation improvement specialists, data analysts, medical and clinical lab techs, privacy and security officers and more.