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CDI Tips: Dementia
CDI Tips: Dementia

Dementia: Will we need more queries? The short answer is yes! We need documentation of none, other, or a specified type of mood disorder.  But here is the long answer: “Dementia The ICD-10-CM classifies dementia (categories F01, F02, and F03) on the basis of the...

MPI Clean Up Across Hospitals
MPI Clean Up Across Hospitals

Last month we covered hospital merger and acquisition activity and IT implications. One consideration reviewed was the importance of MPI clean up around M&A and EHR integration.  The sheer complexity of migrating millions of...

Get updated on the 2022 Query Compliance Brief and earn AHIMA CEUs
Get updated on the 2022 Query Compliance Brief and earn AHIMA CEUs

The newly released and much anticipated 2022 UPDATE of the AHIMA/ACDIS Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice is here! We're offering two live webinar opportunities for you to be informed, stay up-to-date, and earn 1.5 AHIMA-approved CEUs. Choose your...

e4 Makes an Impression at the Oracle Cerner Healthcare Conference
e4 Makes an Impression at the Oracle Cerner Healthcare Conference

Painting the town green! As the leading national implementer of Cerner solutions, e4 is here to help you navigate every step of your Oracle Cerner journey. Speaking of navigation, e4's glowing green mobile billboard truck drove around the CHC conference areas and...

e4 and Intellis Team Up at AHIMA 2022
e4 and Intellis Team Up at AHIMA 2022

The e4 and Intellis teams collaborated to put together an attention-grabbing experience at the 2022 AHIMA Conference in Columbus, Ohio. When the opening ceremony kicked off Sunday evening, conference attendees were greeted by a...

Intellis referenced in Healthcare Innovation article
Intellis referenced in Healthcare Innovation article

In Healthcare Innovation's article "Revenue Cycle Management and the EHR: Looking at an Important Intersection,"  Joe Galdi, vice president of revenue cycle systems at the 14-hospital RWJ Barnabas Health system shared his perspectives on the challenges and...

IT Infrastructure Needs in Healthcare
IT Infrastructure Needs in Healthcare

Recently, Healthcare IT Today shared a number of insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. Now, with insights from Intellis CSO Shawn Van Doren and other experts, they explore some of the more classic IT infrastructure needs in...

Coding Tips: Hypercholesterolemia and Hyperlipidemia
Coding Tips: Hypercholesterolemia and Hyperlipidemia

Providers often use the terms hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia interchangeably. Technically, hyperlipidemia is a high or elevated lipid/fat level in the blood. High blood cholesterol is a lipid disorder. As a result, when hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia...

IT Advice During M&A: 3 Tips
IT Advice During M&A: 3 Tips

M&A Overview Last year, President Joe Biden ordered the FTC and other federal agencies to promote marketcompetition in healthcare. Biden said hospital mergers and acquisitions had left the 10 largesthealthcare systems in...

Coding Tips: Light Meconium-stained Fluid
Coding Tips: Light Meconium-stained Fluid

Meconium gives the amniotic fluid a greenish color. This is called meconium staining. Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2022 clarifies ‘light meconium-stained fluid’ and how to code it.  The presence of any meconium staining may indicate fetal distress, therefore code...

Coding Tips: The Eliquis Coding Conundrum
Coding Tips: The Eliquis Coding Conundrum

Eliquis can be used as an anticoagulant or an antithrombotic. When a patient is on Eliquis long-term, it can be a coding conundrum. As published in Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2022, ICD-10-CM classifies Eliquis as an anticoagulant medication.  Therefore, if...