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Innovaccer, Palo Alto Networks, Samsung and others are using artificial intelligence to improve patient access, enhance urgent care and home health with clinical insights, position mobile health data for consumption, and secure agentic AI integrations.

Autonomous medical coding has been viewed as the province of large academic medical centers that could afford to experiment with cutting-edge technology. Today it is starting to be viewed as a necessary tool for all health systems.

In the move towards value-based care, digitally maturing healthcare systems can integrate AI to generate high quality data to personalise and integrate care, and even predict and prevent disease. 

The CEO of the Alliance for Better Health and former deputy national coordinator talks EHR and interoperability challenges, the need for ROI, physicians' changing roles and why "social determinants" might not be the right term.

The agency posted answers to pressing questions for coders and hospitals to consider when the year of flexibility end on Oct. 1, 2016. 

Prior to the Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004 there was a saying in New England that Boston had only two problems: September and October. Healthcare providers should be able to relate. That's because experts say problems seen in September in testing ICD-10 codes could become disasters when the new diagnostic code set goes live on October 1.

The U.S. lags other countries in adoption of ICD-10, and it should end the delay for adoption, speakers at a Capitol Hill briefing Feb. 10 told members of Congress.

Under the guise of the already contentious SGR fix, Congress is girding to vote on a bill Thursday that would delay ICD-10. AHIMA has written a letter, urging Congress to stay the course to the Oct. 1 deadline.

A new report by KLAS ranks Deloitte and The Advisory Board Co. among the top consultants for the coding transition.

There will be no shortage of hot-button discussion topics at the 82nd annual convention and exhibition of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Orlando from Sept. 25-30.