Fresh perspectives on clinical terminologies, code mapping, and patient insights from the experts at IMO.
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.
In a data-driven society, it’s no surprise that the amount of information generated in the healthcare sphere is vast. That’s both good and bad. While a greater volume of material can support more accurate decision-making, it’s only as valuable as it is useful. Our webinar takes a look at three types of organizations working to solve this problem.
The racial and social justice challenges in 2020 had a profound impact on IMO’s leadership team. Our CEO, Ann Barnes, shares how we are navigating these issues to create an inclusive culture for our employees.
In creating not just one, but multiple, vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in under a year, pharmaceutical researchers and developers achieved a remarkable feat. But there’s still a challenge ahead: distributing and administering the vaccine across the country, while also managing a flood of inoculation data.
As vaccines for COVID-19 become more readily available, the possibility of getting back to life before the pandemic seems closer every day. That said, it’s still been over a year since the virus first appeared, requiring a slew of new terms and codes to describe not only the disease itself, but also adjacent tests, vaccines, and comorbidities. The following infographic shows how the industry and IMO responded to the clinical terminology needs of the past year.
