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How Private Practices Can Leverage Personalized Health Diagnostics 

Electronic Health Reporter

By Bill Stone, CEO, AllClear Healthcare. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Sensible Medicine

She meets her existing patients and picks up a new one, Bill. Bill is 35 and has a severe cardiomyopathy. Cara meets Bill, a man only slightly older than herself, performs a history and physical, and orders the medication: encainide. Bill had coded and died overnight. A nurse had a needlestick during the code.

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Work Environments for a Medical Billing & Coding Specialist

Northwest Career College

If you are considering pursuing a career in medical billing and coding, you may have questions like where you will be able to work after receiving your certification or license. Many healthcare settings require the services of medical billing and coding specialists for record organization and management, insurance claims, and billing.

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DSM-5 Text Revisions: What Changed, and What Does That Mean for Mental Health Providers?

Valant

(Updated 11/6/2024) In March of 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released changes to its diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. This has helped clinicians increase their diagnostic precision.

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Could we do worse than the PSA for prostate cancer screening?

Sensible Medicine

Design The BMJ Oncology article is billed as a prospective study designed to assess the feasibility of a screening approach using PSA density and prostate MRI. (I’ll This article is billed as “feasibility” trial, but it is not even that. In most countries, the wait-time for diagnostic MRIs is unreasonably long.

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How Automation is Revolutionizing Medical Claims Processing Accuracy 

CollaborateMD

Manual methods are prone to: Human Error : Misfiled billing codes, missing data, and inaccuracies are common with manual input, according to one report. Enhancing Accuracy and Reducing Human Dependence Medical claims include billing and diagnostic codes that must be accurate for claims to be processed efficiently.

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Hackers force hospital system to take its national computer system offline

Scrubs

Some outpatient facilities have closed because of the attacks, including radiology, diagnostic and heart health facilities in Connecticut, according to the Facebook pages and websites for Prospect Medical affiliates. Hospitals often use interconnected computer systems for tasks such as billing and keeping track of patient records.

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