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Professional Medical Coding:Need Experience to Get Hired? Here Are Some Steps You Can Take to Get that Medical Billing Job.
Article Summary : Medical Coding Blog is dedicated to providing information relevant to medical coding. We offer statistics, links, and other resources for those seeking to enter into a medical billing coding career or looking for medical coding classes online. Article Content : The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is an annual nationally representative survey of patient visits to office-based physicians that collects information on use of electronic medical record/electronic health record (EMR/HER).Here are some findings:2008 41.5 percent of physicians reported using all or partial EMR/EHR systems (not including systems solely for billing) in their office-based practices. (The figure for 2007 was 34.8 percent.)In 2008, about 16.7 percent of physicians reported having systems that met the criteria of a basic system, and about 4.4 percent reported that of a fully functional system. (The figures for 2007 were 11.8 percent with a basic system and 3.8 percent with a fully functional system.) -Basic systems include: patient demographic information, patient problem lists, clinical notes, orders for prescriptions, and viewing laboratory and imaging results-Fully functional systems include: all functionalities of basic system plus medical history and follow-up, orders for tests, prescription and test orders sent electronically, warnings of drug interactions or contraindications, highlighting of out-of-range test levels, and reminders for guideline-based interventionsPreliminary 200943.9 percent of the physicians reported using all or partial EMR/EHR systems (not including systems solely for billings) in their office-based practices.About 20.5 percent reported having systems that met the criteria of a basic system, and 6.3 percent reported that of a fully functional system.ConclusionThese data indicate that physicians have been increasingly adopting EMR/EHR systems.
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Medical Coding Guide:Just the Facts: How Many Doctors Today are Using Electronic Health Records?
Article Summary : A Blog about medical coding including a description of medical coding, salary expectations, schools, news and more! We are an online medical coding blog, offering links, resources and statistics for the online coding industry and those seeking to enter the field especially to those into medical. Article Content : According to the HWS Labor Market Pulse Index, the health care industry is on the rise throughout the nation. This quarterly barometer is used to measure the growth of the health care workforce in local markets. In the fourth quarter of 2009, it shows that there was a growing demand for health care workers in a number of regions, including California and parts of the Midwest and Southwest.Here are some findings:- Demand is growing fastest in Sacramento, Riverside and San Bernardino, Calif., and in other national cities, including Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Dallas – A large percentage of the growth is due to newly announced plans to expand existing organizations and larger facility openings – The HWS Labor Market Pulse Index tracks the 30 largest markets – there was a 19.5 percent increase overall in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to the third quarter of 2009, and was up 17.3 percent compared to one year ago What does this mean for your medical coding career
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Medical Coding Help:California, Midwest Show Signs of Job Growth Within the Health Care Industry
Article Summary : A Blog about medical coding including a description of medical coding, salary expectations, schools, news and more! We are an online medical coding blog, offering links, resources and statistics for the online coding industry and those seeking to enter the field especially to those into medical. Article Content : Planning for the ICD-10 transition? With the implementation set for October 2013, there is still a lot of preparation and readiness ahead. In the midst of planning and preparing for the new system, it is important to look ahead at the advantages of adoption and how ICD-10 implementation will benefit the entire health care industry. Advantages of Transitioning to ICD-10 Codes Greater accuracy – Health care providers will have a better ability to accurately describe diagnoses, including documentation of new diseases and more precisely describing existing ones
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Medical Coding Guide:Benefits of Implementing the New ICD-10 Coding System
Article Summary : A Blog about medical coding including a description of medical coding, salary expectations, schools, news and more! We are an online medical coding blog, offering links, resources and statistics for the online coding industry and those seeking to enter the field especially to those into medical. Article Content : According to the American Academy of Professional Coders, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that several states will receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health records(EHR) incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.The Recovery Act provides 90-percent federal matching dollars for state planning activities to administer incentive payments to Medicaid providers, to ensure their proper payments through audits, and to participate in statewide efforts to promote interoperability and meaningful use of EHR.Several states have already received word on the amount of funding they will receive. The states and funding dollar amounts are as follows:California – .48 millionU.S. Virgin Islands – 2,000New York – .9 millionMontana – 9,000Idaho – 2,000Texas – .86 millionIowa – .16 millionGeorgia – .17 millionBased on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the government is striving to digitize patient health recaords within the next five years. With nationwide focus, electronic health records is an ideal career training option for today’s medical coders to prepare for upcoming changes in the way health care providers process medical claims and maintain patient records.
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Medical Coding Online:States Receive Funding for Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentives – Creating Opportunities for Today’s Medical Coders
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Word Tip of the Week: Bulleting and Numbering
For the first quarter 2010, expectations and estimates are high, buoyed by the continued recovery of the economy from the recession. And although there have been job cuts and closing of centers in some outsourcing companies such as Convergys (NYSE:CVG) who is laying-off of 677 people in Albuquerque in the US as it closes its center there; the outlook still remains positive. Creativity has become a must for outsourcing companies now as they have to work harder for their bread and butter. The continued economic recovery and the increase in competition is slowly driving down prices of commodities and services that once were outsourced to cheaper counterparts globally. Thus some companies are adopting non conventional techniques to expand their business. Infosys (NASDAQ:INFY) is one such company who’s currently adopting non-conventional strategies by deciding to further their expansion efforts towards smaller cities in India rather than the bigger cities. A highly unprecedented move to say the least since in years past, companies have been focusing on global expansions in regions such as the Latin America’s , and only in urban rather than rural areas. Other corporations such as Capgemini (EURONEXT:CAP) are adopting techniques employed by Indian BPO’s which is hiring fresh graduates from campuses in order to expand their workforce. Costs will be low considering that salaries would not have to be so high to start off, however with the recovery in sight and many companies now able to provide the salary increases that was, in the not so distant past, withheld due to the recession, then attrition will most likely increase as the months pass. Meanwhile, another provider, little known company Harva , is increasing their workforce by hiring only women from rural areas and training them to work in the business process outsourcing industry.
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First Quarter 2010 Part 1 of 4: New Outsourcing Techniques in Play
When Apple first announced the iPad, I asked students at Parsons what they thought of it and they immediately said it was for consumption, not creation of content. No camera, no USB, no flash–not much to remix and make. They weren’t going to buy it. Maybe their parents would to watch TV and read newspapers. I just read Jeff Jarvis this morning on the iPad and he totally agrees and goes further, saying that it is perfect for the mainstream media giants and Apple who are into controlling content and selling it . In fact, Jarvis says it’s a throwback to another era before the net was democratized and we all got the tools to make our own content.
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Jeff Jarvis And Parsons’ Students Agree on iPad–It’s For Consuming Media, Not Creating It.
Mike Mandel is the best economist I know and he’s predicting that the fastest growing job segment in the recovery that is starting will be in communications . Mike’s Second Law of Booms and Busts says that jobs that tend to recover in the bust also tend to lead the boom. So, looking at the stats that are being published now on new job growth, what does Mike see? The latest batch of stats from Washington show a surge of jobs in the broad categories of “internet publishing and search,” “computer systems design,” and “wireless.” Mike is interpreting these numbers to mean that a broadly-defined media boom will lead the US economy for the years ahead. By “media,” he includes health-care related apps ( Future Well ), mobile payments via cell phones, and all Facebook-Google-Apple platform stuff. I would also include e ducation, which is undergoing a massive de-massing and switch to social media platforms .
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New Jobs In The Economic Recovery? Try Communications
Two weeks ago the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law School hosted a conference, Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business As Usual? My colleagues Liam Brown (CEO) and Mark Ross (VP Legal Services), who also attended, agree that this rated as one of the best ever conferences about large law firms. Rarely have I seen such a good selection of topics and mix of panelists, who included managing partners, consultants, academics, and vendors. Well-known presenters included Ralph Baxter (Orrick), Mark Chandler (Cisco GC), Jeff Carr (FMC GC), Richard Susskind (writer and leading legal “futurist”), Dan DiPietro (Citi private banking ), and Adam Smith, Esq
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Law Firm Evolution or Revolution?
A few months back I wrote an article on how outsourcing has already been helping with cost reductions in the Healthcare Industry, and with the recent passing of the U.S. Healthcare Reform Bill, many are anticipating an increase in business opportunities in this sector.
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HealthCare, I.T. and Outsourcing’s Old Prospect Just Got Hotter
Horses for Sources, the foremost social networking community and advisory analyst firm, published its first research report – “The IT Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing Industry Landscape in 2010”. The report was conducted on the basis of the opinion of 1,055 senior executives involved with either buying, selling or advising outsourcing services. According to the report the year of 2010 is primed to be very strong for outsourcing adoption. In particular, IT outsourcing is expected to peak this year. The delivery models for standard ITO services are mature and scalable enough to cope with the demand. Some other key findings of the report are: – The middle-market ($750m-$3000m annual revenues) is poised to be the most active. – Customers are anticipating more business benefits from outsourcing than merely driving out some initial cost. More than half of all customers cite the need to globalize and transform processes as prime outsourcing motives. And this is across all size classes of customers. The need to globalize is impacting all companies, and outsourcing is providing one vehicle to help firms achieve it
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Happy Future for Outsourcing in 2010
Special purpose machines like the typewriter eventually lose out to general purpose machines like the personal computer. Amazon is trying some strategic thinking with their Kindle software for iPad and iPhones!
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When you cannot beat them, join them! Amazon tries with its Kindle software but will it succeed?
It seems fitting in a week when Facebook reportedly overtook Google as the most visited site on the Internet to try to revisit exactly why social networks are rapidly becoming the transforming force for business created by the new era of technology (whatever we define that technology era to be based on, or to include; i.e cloud, web 2.0, mobility, collaboration, etc). But first back to the report by HitWise who analyse numbers of web visits and have, by the narrowest of margins, positioned Facebook in the lead with 7.07 % over Google at 7.03%. This also means that just these two sites – Facebook and Google – account for more than 14% of all visits on the web today. Put another way, 1 in 8 online activities is concerned with either finding content, or interacting with people, around a shared topic. In the external context of consumers deciding what to buy, the impact of how we decide what to buy from any business is reflected by the growing focus in how that business’s products and services appear in an online world. We all know that it is wise to research any significant purchase to find what is on offer, and where to buy at the best price, hence why we refer to ‘googling’, but why did Facebook grow an astonishing 185% in the year? Posted by Andy Mulholland on April 4, 2010
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Facebook over takes Google as the most visited site; why?
There used to be a time when innovations in Computer Graphics used to be made in Universities after lots of research! But these days they seem to be made in the movie studio!
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More Cores, More Threads and We have a fun movie "How to Train a Dragon"!
Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms that the ancient Chinese gave to the twenty-four divisions of their year. Qingming is also one of the most important festivals in China which comes with in ten days before or after April the 5 th every year. It originated from ceremonial worship of ancient emperors’ tombs. Latter on, the practice was generally adopted by the public to pay tribute to ancestors. On that day, people visit and sweep forefather’s tomb, recalling love and memory of the late family members. Although Qingming is a festival of mourning, it does not have to be sad. Since the festival falls in spring, it is a great time for outdoor activities such as football, swinging and tree planting. Cuisine on Qingming is special. In ancient times, people did not make fire on that day so they ate prepared cold food instead.
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Traditional Chinese holiday—Qingming
Apple’s iPad has tremendous buzz and will hit the stores this weekend–with Boomer’s loving it, techies hating it and mainstreaming media hoping it means salvation. But the iPad has been in development for 20 years, starting with Apple asking Smart Design in NYC to come up with concepts for what a tablet might look like.
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The Apple iPad–20 Years Ago It Asked Smart Design to Conceptualize It
Best Nonprofit Social Media Presentations 1) Beth Kanters presentations on slideshare . This is a robust library of available options. 2) 50 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits to Meet Their Missions 3) Social Media for Nonprofits: 26 Great Slideshare Presentations Social Media for Nonprofits: Additional Resources Mobile Active Strategy Guide for Using Mobiles Phones to Market Nonprofit Organizations Social Media Governance Nonprofits on Alltop Facebook for Nonprofits on Delicious
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Best Nonprofit Social Media Presentations
Thinking about integrating physician financial services into your future plans for your physician clinic isn’t a minor action to take. It’s a significant subject, covering an extensive list of benefits, all of which facilitate the effective running of your business whilst maximizing your profits. Cut down on those worries and pressures and ensure that you meet with each legal regulation
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Why do outsourcing initiatives fail? The author believes poor change management is to blame. Poor change management translates into: slower speed of adoption; lower ultimate utilization; lower proficiency. Together, they all hurt the “Return on investment” ROI “in an outsourcing effort and are limited to a “Past focused” thinking to…
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The ROI For Strategic Change Management In Outsourcing
