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How AI is Driving Patient Engagement and Revolutionizing Patient Experience

Practice Builders

Store lab reports, medical records, and all the necessary data about past visits, discharge summaries, and more. Automate Your Medical Coding and Billing Processes Medical coding is labor-intensive. This is where AI-powered medical coding solutions come in handy. No information will be lost.

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RAG in Healthcare: Your Complete Guide to Its Implementation

Arkenea

RAG systems can reduce this to minutes by: Instantly retrieving relevant studies from vast medical databases Summarizing key findings in the context of your specific research questions Identifying gaps in current research that align with your organization’s capabilities Comparing treatment outcomes across multiple studies with your patient population (..)

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Upcoming ICD-10 Code Changes for October 1, 2024: What You Need to Know 

Health Prime

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the ICD-10-CM code set update for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The upcoming ICD-10 updates, effective October 1, 2024, bring many changes that will impact your medical billing and coding practices. But don’t worry – we’re here to help!

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Medical Assistant Terminology to Know

Milwaukee Career College

For example, if you come across the term rhinorrhea, you can get its meaning by breaking it into the root word, rhino, meaning nose, and rrhea, meaning discharge or flow. This way, you will know that the word stands for nasal discharge. You experience joint pains when these membranes are damaged.

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Healthcare Revenue Cycle KPIs You Should Monitor

Relias

Accurate medical coding has a big impact on revenue cycle management (RCM), but it is not the only factor affecting its success. Code and charge accuracy. The first set of recommended KPIs pertains to ensuring that medical coding accurately reflects patient conditions and properly documents the care they received.

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Get ready for CPT codes changes in 2024 

Health Prime

These revisions include: Removal of time ranges from office or other outpatient visit codes (99202-99205, 99212-99215) and the alignment of the format with other E/M codes A definition to determine the “substantive portion” of a split/shared E/M visit in which a physician and a non-physician practitioner work jointly to furnish all the work related (..)

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Hospital finances improved through April: Kaufman Hall

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

During the first four months of the year, average length of stay fell year over year while adjusted discharges per calendar day rose, signaling patients are moving through health systems efficiently, Kaufman Hall said. Average length of stay was down 1% compared with the same period last year, while adjusted discharges increased 5%.