Fresh perspectives on clinical terminologies, code mapping, and patient insights from the experts at IMO.
If you’ve ever had surgery – even a minor procedure – you’re likely familiar with many of the moving parts that make the operation run smoothly. But you may not know how preference cards guide the successful setup of your surgical procedure. We explain the basics of how these cards help ensure the best OR utilization below.
With tasks like developing vaccines and rolling them out now firmly under our belts, it might seem like we’ve tackled the challenges preventing a return to life before COVID-19. But there’s still plenty to be done as we work to ensure easy verification of an individual’s risk of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Part one? Getting the right information in the right place.
Electronic health records (EHRs) are critical to the practice of modern medicine. They ease the sharing of patient data; facilitate new healthcare data analytics efforts; and help track public health metrics. But the move to digital records has not been universally embraced. Steven Rube, MD, FAMIA – IMO’s Senior Vice President of Global Clinical Services – talks about EHR workflows from a clinician’s point of view.
If any year could highlight the massive effort it takes to keep clinical terminology updated, 2020 – with its release of several different emergency code updates related to COVID-19 – was it. So, how do we help keep clinical documentation and EHR workflows going? Read more in the blog below.
The fact that the letters IMO don’t just stand for Intelligent Medical Objects isn’t lost on this medical coding company. Indeed, we believe it’s high time IMO embraced our text-slang status and we’re doing just that with In My Opinion, a new Ideas series featuring Q&As with IMO employees. The marketing team’s Meg Brennan takes the May spotlight.
While social and economic factors have always influenced public health, concrete policy actions to address these disparities on the federal level have been limited. But the COVID-19 pandemic – along with policy priorities of the Biden administration – are finally changing the status quo.
Optimizing EHR workflows can save clinicians plenty of time and frustration. Read on for a closer look at how to improve medical problem list management with tools that make it easy to organize information and filter for the most important material first.
If you’ve worked in or around the medical problem list, you know there’s a code for every calamity – even the ones that haunted your childhood dreams.
Dale Sanders began his relationship with IMO as a client and brings three decades of experience to the company. He will be responsible for IMO’s strategy to develop products that deliver critical data quality improvements and insights to improve patient care.
It’s safe to say that many of us have missed in-person events over the past year – whether they were birthdays, weddings, graduations, or just getting dinner with a friend. But, as Lauren Stockl, IMO’s Manager of Tradeshows and Events, explains, those in the events industry have felt their absence in very different ways.
Monoclonal antibody infusion therapy is showing great promise as a treatment option for specific COVID-19 patients. Finding those patients, however, can be cumbersome and time consuming without precisely defined value sets.
The fact that the letters IMO don’t just stand for Intelligent Medical Objects isn’t lost on this medical coding company. Indeed, we believe it’s high time IMO embraced our text-slang status and we’re doing just that with In My Opinion, a new Ideas series featuring Q&As with IMO employees. In the spotlight this month, Jim Thompson, MD.
