Dementia is a neurocognitive disorder characterized by a meaningful decline in cognition and daily functioning. As of October 1, 2022, there were some significant changes in regards to reporting this condition,
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Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient’s health records into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and time-consuming task that follows a standard process in order to achieve a high level of consistency. Cl...
Compliance— it’s such a serious word to a medical biller or coder, and for good reason. When people in the healthcare industry speak about compliance by healthcare providers, they mean that an office or individual has set up a program to run the practice according to the r...
She has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. With her degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), she has been a programmer for a large insurance carrier as well as a California hospital system. She is also the author and editor of many medical resource books and the...
Is Concierge Medicine Worth It for You? After years of navigating traditional healthcare, many people reach a point where rushed visits, lack of coordination, and limited access become too frustrating to ignore. Now that you’ve seen what concierge medicine actually costs — and what you’re pa...
Like it or not, IVR is here to stay. The global IVR market is projected to reach $9.2 billion by 2030, reflecting a sustained enterprise demand for voice-based customer service automation. And thanks to recent breakthroughs in AI and contact center technology, IVRs are no longer static, frus...
AI can be used to understand patterns in patient attributes and then recommend a treatment plan based on AI analysis. With the advent of electronic medical records and wearable technology, data is becoming exponentially abundant in health care. Artificial intelli...
Jonathan P. Tomes is a national HIPAA compliance consultant and attorney admitted in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma who practices in Kansas City, Kansas, and the greater Kansas City area. After he had retired from the U.S. Army as a JAGC officer, having been a military judg...
while the cloud subscriber is usually responsible for installing, configuring, securing, and maintaining software and handling digital security. Billing remains focused on consumption: For storage servers, you pay for the capacity in use; for compute servers, you pay for the processor resources used....