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Program Name |
Description |
Speaker |
An Update on
Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) |
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This seminar will provide an update on Computer
Assisted Coding (CAC), its use for inpatient coding,
and the results being achieved. |
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Dee Lang, RHIT
President
Dee-L & Associates, LLC |
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ARRA HITECH: A View from HIT Policy Committee
Meaningful Use Workgroup |
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This session will explore the newly approved
meaningful use regulations, metrics for
measuring success, timelines, and what is
yet to come. |
Charlene
Underwood, MBA, FHIMSS
Senior Director of Government and Industry
Affairs
Siemens Healthcare Health Services |
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Coding Roundtable - Pressure Ulcers |
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Definition of a pressure ulcer, education about
different staging and place pressure ulcers are most
commonly found. how to find wounds documented as
pressure which have a different cause rather then
pressure. |
Mary Pat Wenger, RN, ADN
Enterostomal Nurse Educator
Lancaster General Hospital |
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Diagnosis List & Its Relationship To The MDS |
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This session covers how a diagnosis
list works in long term care and its
relationship to the MDS which should only contain
"current" diagnoses. |
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Susan Clay, RHIT
LTC Health Info. Consultant |
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E-codes
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This
session will provide HIM
professionals with an overview
of the External Causes of Injury
and Poisoning section of
ICD-9-CM. |
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Nathan McWilliams, RHIA
Director of MIS & Trauma Registry
Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation
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E-codes: An overview of assigning external causes of
injury, including a 2010 update |
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This session will provide HIM professionals
with an overview of the External Causes of
Injury and Poisoning section of ICD-9-CM.
How to use the alphabetic index and tabular
lists effectively will be discussed. Common
and important definitions will be
highlighted. This session will include a
2010 update of the new E code activity
codes. Attendees will be able to confidently
assign Place of Occurrence E codes. Gray,
confusing and difficult causes will be
discussed and explained. Examples will be
used to demonstrate logic of assignment. |
Nathan McWilliams, RHIA
Director of MIS & Trauma Registry
Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation
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From an Insurance Eye |
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Kathy will give you many examples that may help you
to keep the Insurance Companies from sending you
multiple letters and what your departments can do to
help. Sometimes we are almost our own worst enemy. |
Kathy Arner, LPN, RHIT, CCS, CPC, MCS, CPMA
Program Integrity Investigator
Geisinger Health Plan
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ICD-9-CM Coding in Long Term Care |
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This presentation will focus on the unique features of coding in the long term
care industry. |
Mary Ann Leonard, RHIA, RAC-CT |
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Managing Virtual Employees |
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This presentation will examine
managing virtual employees, facilitating virtual
teams and training issues. Any workplace that has a
formalized telework program will need to re-exam how
they communicate, evaluate and train employees. |
Cathy Flite, M.Ed. RHIA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Temple University |
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Organizational Readiness for the EHR |
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The capital budget has been approved for
your EHR roll out, but is your organization
truly ready to assimilate use of the EHR
into the everyday working lives of your
physicians and staff? This presentation
discusses organizational, cultural and
operational changes required to realize the
most benefit from your EHR investment.
Follow the journey of a large,
not-for-profit integrated delivery network
as they successfully prepared their
organization for a successful EHR
implementation. Real world examples from
Just Associates’ consulting projects are
discussed. |
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA
President / CEO
Just Associates |
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Preparing for ICD-10 - The HIM Manager's Role
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The presentation will include a brief
overview of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS to
provide HIM professionals with a better
understanding of potential transition
issues. It will help you to assess your
facility, department and personal readiness
for the transition to ICD-10. Transition
topics include technical issues,
documentation and data issues, training, and
productivity impact on revenue. It is still
early but we need to be sure we have an
ICD-10 action plan in place. |
Sara Clark, MLS, RHIA
Manager, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc. |
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Present on Admission vs. Never Events |
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Understand the history of Present on
Admission indicators and the criteria
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) uses
to establish the "Never Events". |
Kathy Fennick, RHIT, CCS, Associate Director
Coding & Auditing Services for Pyramid
Healthcare Solutions |
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Release of Information: Bringing It in House |
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This session will review the
challenges of having an outsourced release of
information department, strategies to bring it
in-house effectively utilizing technology and team
building techniques. |
Faith Zeigler, RHIA |
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Remote Cancer Registry Abstracting |
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Pros and cons of remote
abstracting and how to decide if it is a solution
for your facility. Tricks and tips to setting up
remote abstracting. How to determine if your staff
is "remote ready". |
Carolyn Ingram, CTR
Oncology Data Management Consultant
Precyse Solutions |
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Sepsis vs. UTI - How to Avoid RAC Denials |
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Ambiguous documentation within the medical
record often leads to improper code/DRG
assignment. The diagnoses of Urosepsis/Sepsis/UTI
can be confusing to the coding professional
as to the extent of the infection. Each
falls into varying DRGs which may lead to a
RAC audit. Listen to this audio seminar to
understand the disease processes and how to
educate your clinicians on best practice
documentation. |
Donna D.
Wilson, RHIA, CCS
Senior Director, Consulting Division
Compliance Concepts, Inc. (CCI) |
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Summary of Key APC Changes for 2010 |
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This presentation will summarize some of the
key changes and challenges associated with
the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment
System and Ambulatory Payment
Classifications as released in the Final
Rule in November 2009. These changes will
likely include changes to the physician
supervision requirements as well as changes
to APC reimbursement for payable drugs, the
growing impact of quality reporting, outlier
policy changes and other modifications to
the APC rules. |
Jean Russell, MS, RHIT, CIRCC
Partner
Epoch Health Solutions, LLC
Richard Cooley
Epoch Health Solutions, LLC |
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What To Do If You Suspect Employee Misconduct with
Technology |
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Maintaining a productive workplace is the
vested interest
of every employer. An essential element in
protecting that interest is preventing
employee misconduct with information
technology systems.
More |
Angie Singer Keating
Vice President of Compliance and Security
Reclamere, Inc. |
