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ICD-10-CM FY 2025 Code Updates It’s all about the specificity It’s that time of year again—Code Update Season! The recently released ICD-10-CM code updates focus on additional clarity and specification. These updates continue to benefit the ICD-10 code set by allowing coding professionals to tell the patient story accurately. Buckle up and get ready for less unspecified and more documentation opportunities. For FY2025, there were 252 additions, 36 deletions, and 13 revisions, bringing the code set to 74,260 codes. Chapter 2 includes the most changes, deleting unspecified codes and adding new codes to specify those in remission or those not having

Hispanic Heritage Month commemorates and celebrates the vibrant cultures, histories, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans. From September 15th to October 15th, communities across the country come together to honor the traditions and legacies of Hispanic individuals. Let’s explore various ways to celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month this year. Partake in Hispanic Cuisine: Food is often at the heart of community and celebration. Exploring Hispanic cuisine during Hispanic Heritage Month can provide opportunities to connect with the local Hispanic community, support Hispanic-owned restaurants and businesses, and learn from their culinary expertise. It can also be an occasion to

The decision to adopt AI for use in clinical settings and enterprise business systems in healthcare should involve a wide range of constituents. A variety of departments and functions, from the board of directors to all the way down to line workers, will need to give input, author policies, write procedures, and be involved in the lifecycle management of AI. Given the depth of staff involved and the number of activities and interactions, organizations should be looking at utilizing automated risk management tools that can become a central repository of records for all things AI. This should not be a

Cybersecurity is obviously a critical concern for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance are typically managed with a biannual or yearly audit, which then generates items to be remediated to bring the organization into compliance. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, traditional methods of assessing and managing these risks are proving inadequate. This is evident in the number of recent breaches across healthcare.  Enter Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) – a revolutionary approach that is transforming how organizations understand, manage, communicate, and mitigate cyber risks. Additionally, CRQ allows you visibility into HIPAA and Cybersecurity compliance in real-time and the ability to manage your compliance

In light of recent outages, let’s go back to basics and reexamine best practices for change management and vendor management in healthcare. Healthcare Change Management Discussion An appropriate change management program is one of the pillars of maintaining a robust, resilient, and secure IT environment in healthcare. This program should be governed by a team of multi-disciplined professionals who can ascertain and scrutinize the impact of changes being introduced into the healthcare production environment. What do we mean by “changes”? Anything being added, subtracted, or altered in the production IT environment is a change. The smallest faulty change to this environment can