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COVID-19: Preparing your OR for elective surgeries
Janice Kelly, MS, RN-BC, President of AORN Syntegrity Inc. and David Bocanegra, RN, Nurse Informaticist at IMO, discuss the steps and guidelines for safely resuming elective surgeries.
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Creating precise patient cohorts for oncology
Precise value sets are powerful tools that can help identify accurate patient cohorts for a variety of population health and quality reporting initiatives. Find out how they can be employed for cancer care and management with IMO Precision Oncology Sets.
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Interoperability and data overload: Preparing for greater EHR integration
Earlier this year, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized new rules for the 21st Century Cures Act that require health systems to increase their interoperability efforts and facilitate greater EHR integration. Smart strategies for the collection and organization of this data will be critical for success – without them, providers may be overwhelmed, not helped, by the sheer volume of new data.
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Preparing for the return of elective surgeries
The pause placed on elective surgeries won’t last forever, and neither will this unique opportunity to evaluate current surgical scheduling practices and plan for the future of your operating rooms.
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Intelligent Medical Objects announces global release of open source clinical terminology for COVID-19
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.
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Leverage the EHR for effective clinical workflows
Tools to improve clinical workflows don’t necessarily require complex EHR integration. Often, solutions are built right into the system itself. Learn more in Leveraging the EHR for effective clinical workflows.
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Agility and COVID-19: IMO’s ongoing pandemic response
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.
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How precise HCC documentation can improve reimbursement
How much does specificity matter? When it comes to Medicare Advantage reimbursement, it matters. A lot.
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SNOMED CT 101: A guide to the international terminology system
Need a brief refresher on the basics of what SNOMED CT codes are and how they work? We’ve got you covered. Take a few minutes to brush up on the coding system with our SNOMED CT 101 guide.
Webinar
COVID-19: Managing an evolving patient population with health information systems
In this webinar, IMO Clinical Terminologist Julie Glasgow, MD, and Senior Product Manager Reeti Chauhan, discuss the terminology update and how to best leverage IMO Precision COVID-19 Sets at your institution.
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Best practices for improving clinical workflows in your EHR
Join Jim Thompson, MD, IMO’s Physician Informaticist, on April 29 at 12 PM CDT to hear about various strategies clinicians can use to leverage the power of their EHRs for more efficient workflows.
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How the past informs the present: Lessons learned from prior outbreaks
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.
