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Dr. David Danhauer, FAAP, FHIMSS and chief medical information officer at Owensboro Health, explains the implementation of HIT to coordinate follow up on incidental radiology findings. 

To address both documentation accuracy and physician satisfaction, Greater Baltimore Medical Center implemented 3M’ s clinical decision support documentation improvement program that uses AI-enabled clinical intelligence embedded into speech-to-text dictation tools and EHR workflows.  

With the goal of achieving Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program financial incentives, University Medical Center of El Paso launched an ambitious improvement effort targeted at 32 quality metrics, with priority focus on preventing avoidable readmissions. Error-prone and time-consuming manual data analysis was replaced with an advanced analytics platform.

"It is definitely a futuristic goal that's not here just yet, but it seemed to make sense to partner with a technology vendor (3M) that has the same sort of roadmap, the same sort of vision, and has the capability of getting there," said Michigan Medicine Chief Revenue Officer Benjie Johnson. 

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3M and Waystar have entered into a strategic partnership to provide revenue capture solutions to clients of 3M HIS.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize health care. User adoption and acceptance, however, are critical to widespread application. 

With health systems’ adoption of EHR systems, physicians' roles are expanding far beyond just providing good clinical care. Physicians often feel they can add the role of billers, medical record custodians and quality management specialists to their resumes.

A key safety initiative at Kentucky-based Owensboro Health uses machine-driven NLU to automate the patent follow-up process.  

While debates rage over who knows what about us there are ways in which data are being used to transform life for the better. One area with immediate impact has been in healthcare. Dr. Melissa Clarke and Dr. Gordon Moore of 3M’s Health Information Systems discuss how using data is making healthcare delivery more efficient, effective, and equitable.

Through examples given within the wound care setting, Bobbie Starkey, RHIT, CCS-P, shows the importance of documentation and ICD-10-CM reporting to support HCC capture within the inpatient coding sphere. 

Audrey Howard, RHIA, covers fiscal year 2022 updates to ICD-10-CM reporting for non-ischemic myocardial injury and traumatic brain compression and herniation. 

With the shift of care from inpatient to outpatient and from fee-for-service to value-based payment models, a focus on risk adjustment and HCCs align well with this changing landscape.

In an age of clinician burnout and patient backlogs, technology and artificial intelligence can help lighten the lead and take EHRs to the next level.

Audrey Howard, RHIA, covers fiscal year 2022 updates to ICD-10-PCS reporting for spinal procedures, specificity updates to the ICD-10-CM official coding guidelines, and modified MS-DRG logic for type 2 myocardial infarctions. 

Due to the drug Ivermectin’s uptick in misuse for treating COVID-19, Sue Belley, Med, RHIA, CPHQ, reviews ICD-10-CM reporting for poisonings, adverse and toxic effects and underdosing.

This new collaboration between Blackford and 3M will focus on the North American market and aims to bring improved AI efficiencies into the radiology reporting workflow. 

CAC has come a long way in a short time. What started as a way to help clinical coders manage ever increasing complexity in their workloads, has now grown into a technology solution that provides benefits across whole organizations.