Author Articles
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Kidney Disease Coding: A Growing Problem
With the increased incidence and prevalence of kidney disease in the United States today, accurate classification of the…
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Variables for Quality Control
Vol. 19 • Issue 5 • Page 26 Evidence shows that quality assurance in pulmonary function laboratories is…
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Double Jeopardy
Vol. 20 • Issue 4 • Page 14 Medicine’s most dangerous tool could be the right-click. The infamous…
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Speech Recognition Proves its Worth
Vol. 14 • Issue 3 • Page 18 There is a common perception that the widespread adoption of…
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Cancer Registry Dubbed Potential Health IT Driver
The National Cancer Institute’s Patient Outcomes Data Service has been cited as an example of health information technology…
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Bringing NAVA to The NICU
Vol. 19 • Issue 2 • Page 28 Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist is an exciting, new, progressive technology…
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OMG and HL7 International Recap Successful 2009
OMG and Health Level Seven (HL7) International have been collaborating for the past few years on the Healthcare…
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EHR Downtime: The Aftermath
Vol. 20 • Issue 1 • Page 12 Call it Murphy’s Law of EHRs: facilities plan for emergency…
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Dec. 9, 2009 — Iowa to Receive Federal Matching Funds for EHR Incentive Program
Taking what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) described as “another key step toward developing a…
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Defensive Abstracting Makes Sense
Vol. 19 • Issue 12 • Page 19 To defend is to maintain in the face of argument.…
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Nov. 11, 2009 — HL7 Publishes First EHR Functional Requirements Standard for Clinical Research
Health Level Seven (HL7), the non-profit standards development organization, has published the health care industry’s first American National…
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Coding Diabetes With Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness in American adults.…
