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September 29 | SATURDAY
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EDUCATION
Doctor, Was It Something I Said? How to
Effectively Work with Your Physicians
for Positive Change
3:15–4:15 p .m .
Learning Level:
This dynamic and exciting session will provide attendees
the information they need to make their interactions
with providers more effective . Good communication
is key to making positive changes in any organization .
In this ever-changing healthcare environment, being
effective in your communication is essential!
Melody W. Mulaik, MSHS, CPC, CPC-H, Coding Strategies, Inc.
and Coding Metrix, Inc.
Coding and Billing of Observation Services
4:15–5:15 p .m .
Learning Level:
This session will help you recognize the appropriate
use, coding and billing, of observational services
according to Medicare regulations .
Deborah Hale, CCS, CCDS, Administrative Consultant Service
traCk 3—CaC
Location: Level 4, 451B
Sponsored by:
It’s Not Just About Coding: ICD-10 through
Intelligence-Driven Documentation
1–2 p .m .
Learning Level:
Learn how one leading healthcare organization,
Cooper University Hospital, undertook efforts to
ensure complete integration between their key
documentation and medical records to enable optimal
coding, reporting, workflow management, and
revenue capture . During this presentation, experts will
explain why data integrity is critical at the beginning
of the documentation process in order to ensure
documentation improvement, coding accuracy, and
proper reimbursement . Senior executives from Cooper
will be joined by an HIM and Natural Language
Understanding (NLU) expert to outline the importance
of technologies such as speech recognition, NLU,
and computer-assisted coding (CAC) to capture the
meaningful and complete patient information that
enables optimal coding, which is especially critical
in today’s healthcare landscape and in the era of
ICD-10 . Presentation attendees will walk away with
tips from real-life use cases and practical advice on
how a nationally recognized organization began the
multi-solution integration processes with the goal of
achieving true collaborative intelligence .
ahima.org/convention
2012 AHImA CONVeNtION ANd eXHIbIt
Dr. Snehal Gandhi, Cooper university Hospital, and
V. Jagannathan, PhD, Vice President Research, MedQuist Inc.
Computer-Assisted Coding—Fact or Fiction,
A Case Study
2–3 p .m .
Learning Level:
Is computer-assisted coding really the magic bullet to
increase coder quality and productivity, or just more
marketing hype? Do the results change over time as
coders become used to the technology? How do coders
react to the suggested codes? Find out the results
from an academic medical center that implemented
computer-assisted coding .
Amy Wood, CPC, and Cynthia Gaillard, RHIA, CCS, Health
Information Management, yale New Haven Health Services
Evolution of and Potential Game-Changing
Developments in CAC
3:15–4:15 p .m .
Learning Level:
CAC veteran Daniel Heinze provides an independent
look at the evolution of CAC technology, the effects of
the current CAC business environment on continuing
technology development, and the potential for
game-changing developments in the CAC market,
and reviews what potential CAC end-users should be
concerned about and how they can best benefit from
CAC now and in the years to come .
Daniel T. Heinze, PhD, Gnoetics, Inc.
CAC with Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Solves ICD-10 Conundrum
4:15–5:15 p .m .
Learning Level:
The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 scheduled for
October 2014, is creating a shift in the economics of
medical coding . Simultaneously, physicians will be
required to document with an unprecedented amount
of detail, and coders at practices, hospitals, and billing
companies will be required to learn new skills to select
from 155,000 ICD-10 codes rather than 17,000 ICD-9
codes . Natural language processing (NLP)-enabled
Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC) provides a workflowfriendly
solution with the added benefit of generating
structured data for secondary use .
Dr. James M. Maisel, MediSapien