A Top Five for ICD-10
Mark Morsch is Vice President of Technology at A-Life Medical, and has published several papers on NLP clinical abstraction, text mining and computer-assisted coding. In his first post here on...
View ArticleMeasuring Up: Best Practices for Computer-Assisted Coding
Financial pressures, ICD-10 regulations and a shortage of coders are creating the perfect storm — making computer-assisted coding (CAC) all the more critical for health care organizations. But once you...
View ArticleClinical Documentation Improvement Key to ICD-10 Survival
Provider organizations have always focused on the importance of accurate documentation of health care services, and as an industry we all know that documentation accuracy is key to ensuring the...
View ArticleCode Explosion: Can current NLP technology handle ICD-10?
In this post from Mark Morsch, vice president of technology at OptumInsight, and Brian Potter, manager of NLP innovation at OptumInsight, explain how making the jump from ICD-9 to ICD-10 can be less...
View ArticleNatural Language Processing Technology Will be Critical to ICD-10 Success
It seems October is becoming a critical month for change in the health system. The major provisions of the Affordable Care Act will come to life in October 2013. Twelve very short months later, our...
View ArticleHealth IT in the Spotlight: A Closer Look at Clinical Documentation...
Over the past decade, an increasing number of hospitals have implemented clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs. Unsurprisingly, financial considerations are a key driver behind this trend....
View ArticleMaximize Clinical Documentation Improvement Potential for ICD-10 and Beyond
In this installment of our ongoing ICD-10 Education Series, we’ll discuss opportunities to improve clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs as part of preparations for ICD-10 and beyond....
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