HIMSS 2015 Conference Announces Nursing Informatics Study Results

Nursing informatics (NI) is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. NI supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their decisionmaking in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.

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ICD-10 Consulting Shift to Testing and Revenue Impacts

ICD-10 consulting will shift to testing and revenue cycle impacts in the next few months. Testing is the only way to ensure business continuity.

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#ICD10 #NoDelay Trending on Twitter Today, Testing is Issue Not the Delay

ICD-10, the International Classification of Diseases version 10 from the World Health Organization (WHO) is supposed to go into effect in the United States on October 1, 2014 2015.  Today…

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ICD-10 Impacts Case Management and Case Management Reporting

When thinking about ICD-10 program governance, one of the key areas for both traditional Fee for Service (FFS) medicine and the transition to episodic (short-term) and longitudinal data for comparative effectiveness medicine in the Affordable Care Act is the Case Management process and supporting software and reports.

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ICD-10 impacts to providers – Scheduling : Preauthorizations and Certifications

Does your organization have Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that use ICD-9 CM diagnosis or ICD-9 procedure code information? If so, those procedures and systems need to be evaluated as part of the ICD-10 Impact Assessment.

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ICD-10 Financial Impact Assessment

ICD-10 Financial Impact Assessments should include an understanding of: ICD-10 Financial Impact to Revenue Cycle Management ICD-10 Financial Impact based on DRG shifts ICD-10 Financial Impact based on ICD-9 to ICD-10 mapping risk ICD-10 Financial Impact based on use of unspecified codes Health Information Technology (HIT) Impacts: ICD-10 Financial Impact to the Health Information Management (HIM) department ICD-10 Financial Impact to IT as distinct from the clinical applications such as resource conflicts ICD-10 Financial Impacts to training budgets, which should include the Human Resources Department ICD-10 Financial Risk and Impacts to denial management with respect to payer relations and contracting

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ICD-10, Case Management, Revenue Cycle Management, RAC Audits, and Dual Eligbles

Case Management should benefit the entire system, bridging clinical and financial ares of healthcare. Underlying Case Management processes are a number of functions. Case Management also relies on specific diagnosis codes. If hard-coded information or ICD-9 specific methods of capturing this information are in Case Management Systems, they will need to be remediated or replaced to support ICD-10.

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Assessing ICD-10 Financial Risk by Service Line

ICD-10 transition and risk assessment best practice by service line: Physician engagement, combined with chart audits and analytics must be used carefully in a balanced method to ensure that the ICD-10 transition works smoothly across service lines, physician groups, and financial management.

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ICD-10 Financial Risk Assessment and Data Quality – Why You Need it and How to Get Started

Summary financial risk information Financial impact data by physician, coder , facility, specialty, to prioritize training and staffing decisions Encounter-level analytics to prioritize clinical documentation improvement process, testing, and compliance activities Payor contract data organized by reimbursement variations Code-level analysis to drive remediation Trending and ICD-10 financial risk benchmarks

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ICD-10 diagnosis and ICD-10 procedure codes impact provider patient scheduling workflow

ICD-10 will impact scheduling workflow. If your current systems capture ICD-9 codes, your IT team will need to remediate and test scheduling systems. Ultimately, an ICD-10 Financial Risk Assessment, ICD-10 testing, and ICD-10 implementation plan should comprehend ICD-10 provider scheduling.

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ICD-10 Crosswalk using ICD-10 Predictive Analytics

Now that some health plans and health care providers have completed their ICD-10 Assessments many are trying to determine what to remediate and how to selectively prioritize clinical documentation improvement for health care providers. Health plans are prioritizing their remediations and should be looking at their claims mix and contracted providers as well as test plans. An ICD-10 Risk Assessment using ICD-9 and ICD-10 predictive analytics can help.

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