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In their Views from the Top session, "Mercy Rising in Joplin: How Advanced Planning and Resolve Are Helping Us Rebuild," Lynn Britton, president and CEO, and William Showalter, vice president and CIO, both of Mercy Health, shared their experiences of recovering essential information and services, reestablishing information and workflow and rebuild.
While there has been much talk in healthcare about using information technology on the clinical end to build an interoperable industry, the financial side of healthcare has been given short shrift.
Past president Bonnie Cassidy explains that regardless of the forthcoming new ICD-10 compliance deadline, healthcare organizations need to map out their training efforts and then be sure to retrain those coders, particularly once they've achieved certification.
The super registry would list patient registries in the model of ClinicalTrials.gov, which follows use of new therapies for research.
Given the hectic state of the industry and the growing demands placed on IT staff, we asked Guillermo Moreno, vice president of Experis Healthcare, to outline six tips for avoiding staff burnout.
Measures and incentives should be embedded in public reporting programs in every layer of the healthcare system, NQF's CEO said.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have introduced a free online tool, the ICD-10 Critical Pathway for Getting Started -- 2012 and Beyond for use by providers who have not yet begun preparing for ICD-10.
The economy might not be filling everyone's wallets these days, but the landscape for venture capital firms looking to invest in healthcare has never been hotter.
"This is a bit ironic today," Sue Bowman said, pointing to a CMS-borrowed slide stating that the compliance deadline for ICD-10 is October 1, 2013. "The government threw a big curveball toward many presentations."
Usability is one of the major barriers for health IT adoption, particularly for electronic health records. It was no surprise then that a capacity number of attendees took on the challenge of working through various usability research methods in the workshop Usability 101: Applied Methods.