Fresh perspectives on clinical terminologies, code mapping, and patient insights from the experts at IMO.
In order to gain and share insights on the coronavirus pandemic, we all need to be speaking the same clinical language. IMO’s open source data package release aims to get the global healthcare community on the same page – fast.
Things change rapidly in a pandemic, and all sectors of the medical community are working tirelessly to help manage the spread of the novel coronavirus. With coding systems frequently updating their COVID-19 terms and guidelines, IMO is striving to make sure our clients have the documentation tools they need when they need them with a special off-cycle update to both our terminology and insights offerings.
Heading up Enterprise IT and Security at a leading medical coding company is a tremendous responsibility on a good day. So what happens when a pandemic strikes? Discover the ins and outs of going remote – fast.
When the medical community encountered the Zika virus outbreak in 2015, IMO was ready to help with new terminology to document the disease. We learned some lessons in that situation – ones that are helping guide our response to the current novel coronavirus pandemic. IMO VP of Global Clinical Services, Steven Rube, MD, explains our past and current responses to these crises, and talks about how what we learned in 2015 is informing our efforts now.
In the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, updates to COVID-19 coding guidelines, terms, and names are important for patient care, but challenging to manage. IMO’s clinical, product, and coding experts break down how COVID-19 terms have been developed and explain how IMO can help providers by taking terminology concerns off of their plates.
IMO is committed to helping healthcare providers with workflow and cohort management needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why we created IMO Precision COVID-19 Sets, available now to IMO customers, completely free of charge.
Many companies are navigating new ways of working during the COVID-19 outbreak. Our CEO, Ann Barnes, shares IMO’s strategy for keeping our employees and clients supported during this unprecedented time.
With the unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, it’s crucial that we all do our part to help. At IMO, that means ensuring clinicians can easily identify and monitor COVID-19 patients using the most up-to-date terms for EHR documentation. IMO’s CEO Ann Barnes describes our new offerings, available free of charge on March 26.
Highly anticipated rules about interoperability, information sharing, and patient access to medical data were finalized and released today. The rules will impact many players in the health IT industry, including IMO.
In light of the cancellation of the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting, IMO today announced business updates that would have been highlighted at the event.
