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Coding Tips: Endocarditis of Transplanted Aortic Valve with Bacteremia (1Q 2025 Coding Clinic)
Endocarditis of Transplanted Aortic Valve with Bacteremia (1Q 2025 Coding Clinic)Should bacteremia be coded separately in a patient who has streptococcus viridans bacteremia and endocarditis of a transplanted aortic valve? Do NOT assign code R78.81, Bacteremia. In...
What’s on the Horizon for Coding and Reimbursement? Preparing for ICD-10 Updates, Payer Downgrades, and Shifts in DRGs and APCs
This executive brief takes a closer look at the use of utilizing audit data to drive awareness, education, and operational improvements.
e4health CDI Week Detective
Coding Tips: Neo-atherosclerosis of Coronary Artery Stent (1Q 2025 Coding Clinic)
Neo-atherosclerosis of Coronary Artery Stent (1Q 2025 Coding Clinic)What is the correct code for neo-atherosclerosis of the coronary artery stent? T82.855A, Stenosis of coronary artery stent, initial encounter, for the occluded stents that were found to have...
Customer Success Story: Driving CDI Excellence with e4health
A regional health system partnered with e4health to strengthen its Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) program through targeted staff augmentation. e4health supplied a dedicated Leader and experienced Clinical Documentation Specialists (CDSs) to provide both strategic oversight and hands-on support.
CDI Tips: Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance Definition The resistance of micro-organisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites to one or more classes of antimicrobial drugs. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) can lead to the following: Infections that last longer, lengthen hospital...
Precision in Transition: How e4health’s Clinical Data Expertise Elevated a Mid-Atlantic Health System’s Epic Journey
e4health recently partnered with a leading Mid-Atlantic health system to deliver comprehensive clinical data abstraction services in support of their enterprise transition to Epic. This case study examines how e4health’s innovative approach and unique expertise in healthcare data management empowered this customer to achieve successful outcomes during this critical initiative.
From Legacy Systems to Epic Success: The Abstraction Strategy Behind the Smooth Transition
Recently, one e4health customer faced a high-stakes challenge familiar to many expanding health systems: how to unify massive volumes of clinical data across multiple specialties without disrupting care delivery. With nearly 38,000 patient records spanning five distinct specialties and a tight timeline to bring the new site live on Epic, the stakes were enormous. Enter e4health. In close partnership with the customer’s implementation team, we devised a clinical data abstraction strategy that minimized risk, maximized continuity of care, and ensured all essential patient data was ready before go-live.
Elevating Coding Audits: How to Utilize Audit Data to Drive Awareness, Education, and Operational Improvements
This executive brief takes a closer look at the use of utilizing audit data to drive awareness, education, and operational improvements.
No Data Left Behind: Why Staff Augmentation is the Smart Way to Tackle Patient Identity Management
This executive brief takes a closer look at the use of staff augmentation for patient identity management and outlines the best way to get your data in order.
The Hidden $20B Threat: The True Staggering Cost of Patient Data Quality Issues
When we think about hospital operational performance, we often spotlight labor costs, payer contracts, or tech consolidation. But an overlooked and compounding risk threatens all of it: poor patient data quality.
Rich Amelio Named President, Health Information Services
We’re excited to share a strategic leadership update at e4health that reflects both where the healthcare industry is headed—and how we’re evolving to stay ahead of it. Rich Amelio has been appointed President, Health Information Services, expanding his leadership to...