ICD-10, Electronic Medical Records, Analytics May Work Only 65% Of the Time – Or Not at All

Health care providers should ensure that the EMR vendor is on track toward ICD-10 compliance, however they should not rely on their EMR vendor as the panacea. Most hospital systems we work with have many more ancillary systems in radiology, etc. that are also impacted, and the EMR isn't the core system of record (yet) for everything that goes on in a hospital.

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ICD-10 Global Lessons, More on Parallels with Canada and Australia

ICD-10 under the U.S. health system is new, so many are looking for parallels and lessons learned from other countries. In a recent blog, we noted that there are many reasons that the U.S. implementation of ICD-10 will be different. In particular ICD-10 CM is larger than the WHO version of ICD-10, and in the U.S., ICD-10 will serve as a new reimbursement paradigm, unlike Canada. However, as we noted there is one big similarity - more planning is always better.

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ICD-10 Implementation and Risk Planning

ICD-10 implementations, ICD-10 implementation consulting and ICD-10 risk management have been more popular topics on our blog so I am sharing an excerpt of slides I prepared for a recent industry conference near Washington DC the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).

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ICD-10 Implementation Contention – Only 55 Hospitals in the U.S. Are at Stage Seven for Electronic Health Records

ICD-10 implementations have competition for resources within hospitals.  According to HIMSS Analytics, Stage seven healthcare organizations support the true sharing and use of patient data that ultimately improves process performance, quality…

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How to Organize a Corporate Advisory Board

A Corporate Advisory Board is a council of senior representatives from a handful of key clients at which future plans and strategies can be discussed frankly and confidentially. Paul Sloane, a member of the No World Borders advisory board has facilitated several of these boards for different companies

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Health Care Reform Update: Consumer Portal Launched, Consumer Concerns Grow

With the first of many key health reform implementation dates arriving on July 1, The New York Times noted that the health care overhaul's beginnings were earning high reviews from some constituencies.  The Obama Administration celebrated the…

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ICD-10 – People, Process & Technology

The significant increase in code classifications will affect how departments function within themselves, with each other and with outside organizations. As payers take the time to become educated about ICD-10 and 5010, it becomes clear that the impacts are not contained within one area of the business, such as claims.

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ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 and Health Care Reform

No World Borders believes that the clock is ticking on important implementation deadlines for electronic health care and claims compliance dates, and these changes only delay that process. Many health care companies are still asking “What is HIPAA 5010” when they should be asking “how fast can we implement HIPAA 5010.” The new EDI standard enables improved data and provides the foundation for the ICD-10 medical coding standard. These two initiatives have important implementation milestones. See www.noworldborders.com for more information on our home page.

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