Are You Ready for ICD-10?

Are you prepared for ICD-10?

Are you ready for SM358?

Read through these notes and work through all the questions in Sections 3 and 4. This is a useful exercise for all prospective students of the module, even those who have studied other Open University science and mathematics modules and who have followed the recommended prior study routes for SM358 (see Section 2 below). Working through these notes and questions will serve as a reminder of some...

Ready or not! Here comes ICD-10.

The International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) is a new system that is a federally mandated change affecting all payers and providers, and is expected to exceed both the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Y2K in terms of costs and risks. In 2003, HIPAA named ICD-9 as the code set for supporting diagnoses and procedures in electronic administrative transact...

Are You Ready for a HIPAA Audit?

Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes the subsection known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In addition to its incentives for health care organizations to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), HITECH extended the scope of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Security Rule, increased penalties for failing t...

Are you ready for Joint Commission?