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CAPD Top of Mind in Vegas
By Jon Elion, MD, FACC
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the annual conference of the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists, held in Las Vegas May 9–12, boasted record attendance.
One topic that received plenty of attention was “CAPD 2017: An Early Look,” the newly released KLAS report, which describes the various product offerings in computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD). It has been interesting to see this field develop. An early collaboration several years ago was a technological success but a marketing failure, as two major companies combined their efforts to come up with a system that interrupted physician dictation to make suggestions on how to clarify one point or another. It turns out that physicians do not take kindly to being interrupted during their dictation, leading to the marketing failure and the subsequent dissolution of the fledgling partnership.
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Partnership to Use Artificial Intelligence to Combat Breast Cancer
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and PathAI, a company that develops artificial intelligence technology for pathology, are collaborating with the aim to develop solutions that improve the precision and accuracy of routine diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. The partnership aims to build deep learning applications in computational pathology, enabling this form of artificial intelligence to be applied to massive pathology data sets to better inform diagnostic and treatment decisions. The initial focus of this effort is on developing applications to automatically detect and quantify cancerous lesions in breast cancer tissue.
The accurate quantitative assessment of cancer involvement and scale is a central and challenging task for pathologists. This task, while critical to diagnosis and treatment, is very time-consuming and can place increased pressure on pathologists to conduct slide readings and analysis faster. Historically, pathologists have manually reviewed and analyzed tumor tissue slides using a microscope, but the rising shortage of pathologists and the increase in cancer caseloads require digital pathology solutions and smart image analysis software that reduce pathologists’ routine workload, improve diagnostic accuracy and precision, and reduce error rates.
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I am hoping you can assist me with procedure code assignment for an ileostomy revision due to a small bowel obstruction due to an ileostomy stricture. As per the operative report, the procedure was performed as follows: “A circular incision was made with a 15 blade around the old ostomy site for about 1 inch, and cautery was used for the subcutaneous tissue. This was taken down for about an inch and brought across, dividing the stoma, bringing us to the mucosa that was available. This mucosa was then split open and sewn to the side of the dermis with multiple interrupted sutures holding the ostomy open for about an inch.” The pathology report indicated a wedge of coarsely wrinkled skin. As no bowel was removed, bowel resection was not appropriate. It was not a stoma closure, so abdominal wall repair does not seem correct either, as repair denotes restoring a body part to its normal anatomic structure and function.
Dawn Zimmerman, RN, CCS
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Host.net Launches HIPAA-Compliant
HIT Package
The Host.net HIPAA Compliance Package is designed to arm hospitals, doctors’ offices, and health care service providers with secure ways to meet complex compliance regulations, protect patient privacy, establish and improve telehealth and telemedicine services, and adeptly address critical HIT requirements. This integrated solution ensures patient and employee data are safe, while enabling multilocation doctors’ practices to connect their offices, quickly transfer EMRs and files, improve telemedicine capabilities, and ensure the utmost in security and reliability. Learn more »
HITRUST Introduces Threat Catalogue
HITRUST announces a Threat Catalogue to aid health care organizations in improving their information security posture by better aligning cyber threats with HITRUST CSF risk factors and controls, thereby providing greater visibility into areas representing the greatest risk exposure. HITRUST undertook this initiative to improve organizational visibility into threats posed against health information and to afford organizations the ability to prioritize their security program’s activities based on a greater understanding of their risks. Under the guidance of a new HITRUST Working Group, the HITRUST Threat Catalogue will mature over time and will subsequently focus its initial efforts on the following four principal tasks: identify and leverage an existing threat taxonomy for common adversarial and nonadversarial threats to electronic protected health information (ePHI), enumerate all reasonably anticipated threats to ePHI for a general health care organization, map HITRUST CSF control requirements to the enumerated threats, and identify any additional information needed in future iterations of the HITRUST Threat Catalogue to help meet its objectives. Learn more »
Elsevier to Offer HFMA Courses
Through Its Healthcare eLearning System
Elsevier will offer multiple Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) courses, from understanding the business side of health care to communicating with patients. “The Business of Healthcare” is a six-course, online program for those who want a better understanding of how health care is evolving, including new models for payment and care delivery, the importance of financial and clinical alignment, basic health care accounting principles, and the flow of payment for health care services. “Patient Financial Communications” is a complete training solution based on HFMA best-practice guidelines. It provides online scenario-based practice sessions to help staff with topics such as identifying and addressing sensitive financial communications with patients in a range of care settings, confidently engaging patients in understanding their financial obligations, and exploring constructive solutions for resolving self-payment challenges. Elsevier will offer additional HFMA courses throughout the year, including topics such as compliance and billing. Learn more » |
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