Fresh perspectives on clinical terminologies, code mapping, and patient insights from the experts at IMO.
From the COVID-19 vaccine to the delta variant, the October ICD-10-CM update was packed with important changes. Check out five highlights below.
Providers will soon see changes to Medicare’s Quality Payment Program, which will have impacts on their payment for many years to come. Learn more about the specifics below.
The Inpatient Only List is here to stay – for now. See how this can impact provider reimbursements and more in this excerpt from our new executive brief.
IMO has examined the role of clinical terminology in documenting the pandemic from a variety of different angles. Check out this resource roundup to see what we’ve learned.
It would be difficult to find an area of healthcare that has not been touched by the COVID-19 pandemic. The widespread adoption of telehealth services is no exception. Our latest blog and eBook explore this evolving trend.
Surgical dictionaries are important tools that link clinical documentation to their corresponding administrative codes, which are necessary for billing and regulatory reporting needs. But these standardized codes are not static, which means effective dictionaries require continuous upkeep. And when a surgical dictionary becomes unhealthy – with outdated or inaccurate codes – there are several side effects that can negatively impact organizations.
Intelligent Medical Objects or In My Opinion? Here, there’s no need to choose. Check out the latest installment of our Ideas series featuring Q&As with IMO employees. The finance team’s Jim Maurer shares his thoughts in this month’s column.
In part two of our four-part blog series about COVID-19 variants, we explained the importance of data harmonization, which must occur before sequencing, clinical, and epidemiologic data can be combined. In part three, we look at how to maintain the link between patients and their sequence.
Back in May, IMO’s Chief Clinical Officer, Steven Rube, MD, FAMIA, sat down with HIMSS to talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted key areas in clinical documentation where the process of recording patient information is not intuitive – and why having greater specificity in clinical notes is critical to making the most of the patient record.
With over 25 years of clinical terminology curation and governance, IMO is one of health IT’s best kept secrets – but not for much longer. Highlighting just a few of the secondary uses enabled by IMO’s comprehensive terminology is Chief Strategy Officer, Dale Sanders.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact daily life, addressing interoperability in healthcare is critically important. So, we pored over the most recent legislation on the topic – the 21st Century Cures Act – and learned about the new responsibilities payers have in healthcare interoperability. Read a snippet of our summary below.
Part one of our blog series about SARS-CoV-2 variants explained the value of combining viral sequencing data with epidemiological and clinical information in the fight against the pandemic. But challenges remain. To be useable, data must be understandable for all users – a process that’s not as straightforward as it seems.
