Showing posts with label medical education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical education. Show all posts

Monday, August 4, 2014

What can mHealth Games do for your Managed Care Organization?

 Kameron Gifford, CPC




Staff Training

Automate and track all frontline training and development initiatives with one easy-to-use solution.

  • Reduce your Organization’s ICD-10 Training costs up to 88%.
  • Build custom learning plans and automate HIPPA, HITECH and FWA Training.
  • Manage multiple certifications, including renewal and expiration processing.
  • Audit proof your education programs with the xAPI and prove mastery.
  • Build a virtual learning environment (VLE) to launch fun and interactive learning programs.


Clinical Documentation Improvement

Clinical Documentation Improvement or CDI — a process in which care providers receive feedback from specialists who review clinical documents —   delivers clinical and financial benefits for healthcare organizations.  

·       Fill the gaps in care including those found in documentation, coding, quality, and many other aspects involved with the overall care management of a patient.

·       Improve processes, eliminate errors, reduce costs, and increase revenue.


Risk Adjustment Education

·       Identify gaps in coding and documentation that lead to inaccurate risk profiles.

·       Utilize multiple sources of information to transition providers into a prospective system.

·       Provide education and training specific to the needs of each individual practice.

·       Implement and monitor improvement plans to ensure 95% accuracy of claims.

·       Design and initiate compliance plans to ensure protection against state and federal penalties.

·       Analyze, collect and improve HEDIS measurements across every practice.

·       Increase member awareness and understanding of chronic diseases through outreach programs.

·       Documentation and revenue risk assessments proceeding transition into ICD-10.

·       Provide comprehensive ICD-10 transition services that include planning, education, implementation and monitoring

·       Average return on investment is 300+%
  

Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD)

Patient engagement is one of the five goals of the federal government's meaningful use program. PGHD is just one tool in the spectrum of care for patients and caregivers.  PGHD can be a powerful tool in the efforts to achieve the Triple Aim.

·       Work collaboratively with providers, care teams, patients and caregivers to bring PGHD into the care plan.

·       Create tools to improve the patient experience, improve population health and lower health care costs.

·       Utilize innovative methods such as personality assessments to assign members to Primary Care Physicians.

Contact mHealth Games today!

Thursday, May 16, 2013

NYU launches ICD-10 medical coding certificate program



 Author Name Jennifer Bresnick   |   Date May 15, 2013
ICD-10 represents more than just a disruption in a physician’s note taking habits, or a couple of new letters and numbers for coders to tap in to their billing claims.  It’s a fundamental overhaul in the way that diagnoses and procedures are documented, and it will require specialized knowledge and a level of proficiency many ICD-9 coders will initially struggle to master.  Enter New York University and its brand new Certificate in Medical Coding, offered through the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS).  It’s one of the first major programs from an academic institution to be built upon an ICD-10 foundation, offering students the anatomical and medical expertise necessary to tackle the new system.
“We believe that as demands in the health information management industry increase, coding professionals will be required to have certifications or a credential to demonstrate they have met a minimum professional standard,” says Denisse Jimenez, program administrator at NYU-SCPS . “Many programs are still providing ICD-9 training which will be obsolete by 2014. Our program addresses the changes that are occurring in the health information management field and recognizes the expanded skill sets that will be required by medical coding professionals.”
To keep up with mounting financial pressures resulting from ICD-10, EHR adoption, meaningful use, and a number of other health IT initiatives all hitting the industry at once, providers are changing the way they hire and retain staff.  A recent survey indicates that a quarter of practices are cutting staff, including medical coders, just to stay in the black.  But coders with ICD-10 proficiency are only going to become more and more valuable as the implementation date creeps up and providers realize the impact of the transition on productivity and timely payments.
“A huge component of ICD-10 transition planning is employee retention,” explains Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS.  “You’re going to be dealing with a very competitive market of supply and demand.  Those who embrace it and get trained, and become experts in ICD-10, are going to be a real commodity.”  AHIMA and other organizations also provide training and education for physicians and coders alike, and constantly urge professionals not to delay education in anticipation of another pushback of the compliance deadline.
NYU’s certificate includes nine required courses ranging from instruction in anatomy and physiology to pathophysiology and pharmacology.  The program is designed for both new students as well as experienced coders seeking a foundation in ICD-10 before the October 1, 2014 transition date.  More information about the certificate program is available on NYU’s website.