If you implant internal cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and you care about how well patients understand their devices, you will be disappointed in the results of a study released today in JAMA Internal ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a medical journalist covering cardiology news. This article is more than 10 years old. Despite, and perhaps sometimes because ...
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in healthcare terminology management, announced an expansion of its relationship with ExitCare, LLC, an enterprise-wide ...
A woman who experienced health scare after health scare this past year has recently found a welcoming environment that has helped her learn more about her heart condition. Almost 11 years ago, a man ...
Behavioral RCTs in ICD patients show promise with respect to reducing psychological distress in this patient cohort. However, considering lessons learned from the RISTA and WEBCARE trials, patient ...
ICD-10 implementation will challenge healthcare organizations to rethink their current information flow. It represents significant changes for every aspect of healthcare — affecting systems, ...
ICD-10 seeks to add greater detail to how a patient's diseases and conditions are coded. A broken arm is coded in ICD-9 as "a fractured arm," whereas in ICD-10, the injury could be coded as "a ...
Take a moment to reflect on clinical documentation practice over the past decade. A tremendous amount of progress has been made advancing the capture, analysis and distribution of information, and ...
After 5 years, approximately one in four patients treated with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) will require reoperation, a new study shows. And while the reoperation rate varies ...
When physicians who haven’t received ICD-10 training hear the upcoming conversion mentioned, you can see fear in their faces, says Joanna Lucas, ICD-10 committee chair and senior administrative ...
Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses five ways ICD-10 will affect patient surgical encounters in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the third ...
An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on June 23 points to a low rate of ICD implantation in elderly patients who have suffered a heart attack, although ICD use is ...
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