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Evaluation of Inpatient Clinical Documentation Readiness for ICD-10-CM
Author: DeAlmeida, Dilhari R; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.; Anania-Firouzan, Patti; Salguero, Otto; Rubinstein, Elaine; Abdelhak, Mervat N.; Parmanto, Bambang
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: January 2014
Abstract
This research study examined the gaps in documentation that occur when coding in ICD-10-CM. More than 4,000 diagnoses from all chapters were coded from 656 electronic documents obtained from a large integrated healthcare facility at the time the study was conducted (2012)....
Keeping Current in the Electronic Era: Data Age Transforming HIM’s Mandatory Workforce Competencies
Author: Sandefer, Ryan; DeAlmeida, Dilhari R; Dougherty, Michelle; Mancilla, Desla; Marc, David
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2014
Ponder this for a moment. From the beginning of recorded history to 2003, five exabytes (five billion gigabytes) of information was created by humans, according to recent IBM calculations. The rate at which that level of information is being created is increasing exponentially. In 2012, fi....