New AHIMA Service to Answer the Toughest ICD-10 Questions, Support Healthcare Organizations During and After Transition. AHIMA’s highly educated, experienced and credentialed experts are now available to the industry to answer the most challenging coding questions for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS, CPT and HCPCS.
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This week’s rundown includes: Quality Health Network & eHealth Technologies joining forces, highlights from the Digital Health Summer Summit, Orion Health named a leader in IDC HIE, & NextGen Healthcare successfully connects to Mass HIway.
In collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) unveiled a roadmap for the development of standards to support information governance (IG) in healthcare including national and international efforts to ensure interoperability among health information systems.
Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. Here are selected ICD-10 Infographics.
By Bonnie Cassidy – The ICD-10 transition deadline is six months away and HIM teams are working around the clock to ensure a smooth switch over. But how much do you know about the history of this new code set? Take a break from the preparation work for a few minutes and play ICD-10 Jeopardy!
eHealth Initiative and AHIMA are conducting a survey on ICD-10 readiness. Please take the survey if you are a healthcare provider organization.
By Bonnie Cassidy – The health IT industry has faced its fair share of ups and downs, starts and stops — particularly when it comes to the ICD-10 implementation. We are now moving ahead with the October 1 transition date and must stay focused on rolling out ICD-10 education to plans key stakeholders.
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow the associations to collaborate and share educational benefits with their members.
The AMA is calling on Congress for another ICD-10 delay during this current lame duck session. AHIMA was quick to respond, urging Congress to stick to the current deadline, saying another delay will only further deter progress and cost the industry money.