Meds 101: Challenges for interoperability in healthcare
Interoperability in healthcare is a challenge – particularly for medication data. Learn the basics behind documenting this aspect of the patient encounter.
Interoperability in healthcare is a challenge – particularly for medication data. Learn the basics behind documenting this aspect of the patient encounter.
In our series of blogs – What’s in a variant? – we have been discussing how to best translate SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data into a useable format to serve a variety of pandemic use cases. In this final installment, we explore our final application – patient care.
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.
When surgical schedulers don’t have the right clinical terminologies built into their EHR workflows, small inefficiencies – like case delays or preference card errors – quickly add up. And they’re not just frustrating in the operating room, they also wreak havoc on optimal financial return.
Most of us know that interoperability in healthcare is a challenge, but sharing one specific type of healthcare information – clinical laboratory data – is particularly difficult. For more on why this type of clinical documentation can turn into such a headache, check out 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.
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.
While it may have been years (or decades) since many of us were full-time students, that doesn’t mean there’s no place for continuing education – even if it’s just a quick refresher on a key topic or two. When working with medical coding terms, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by an alphabet soup of acronyms or think you need an advanced degree to keep everything straight, but never fear – this medical coding company has got you covered.
For much of 2020, the world waited with bated breath for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Now, with two vaccines approved for use by the FDA, attention is turning to rollout. Today, IMO is proud to announce the release of new value sets within our IMO Precision Sets suite that will help track and coordinate coronavirus vaccinations.