When it comes to honest to goodness clinical documentation doctors are pretty good. But when it comes to administrative “clinical” documentation it’s a different world, and docs need some help. Administrative documentation is based on the decades obsolete ICD 9 codes and is used to determine hospital reimbursement.
Via ACP Hospitalist blog.
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Not to worry! The new Health Information Technowhizbang will solve this problem as well. Just don't look behind the curtain.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG
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