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1. Improved Accuracy of Coding (pdf file)
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   September 01, 2009 - of Coding Improved Accuracy of Coding Monitoring the use of current procedural terminology (CPT) codes … lead to enhanced revenue because visits could be coded with higher complexity level-of-service billing codes … Current Findings in the Literature: Billing in health care organizations is based primarily on CPT codes … However, coding guidelines are complicated and substantial disagreement often exists over assigning codes … Evaluation: Examine the change in the percent- age of categories of CPT codes.

2. LOINC | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - LOINC codes are based on a six-part name, which means that codes are unique not just to the component … During a 12-month period, 4,000 codes accounted for almost 49 million clinical results. … Of the total codes identified, 80 (2 percent) codes accounted for 80 percent of the results, and 784 … (19 percent) codes account for 99 percent of the results. … LOINC by initially focusing on a subset of high-volume transaction codes.

3. Improving Health Data Quality by Assessing and Enhancing Semantic Integrity | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - These changes include adding refinement to existing codes, the addition of new codes, and major version … With the growing use of large electronic health record (EHR) data sets for research, having multiple codes … or combinations of codes that represent the same phenotype creates issues in the identification of desired … cohorts based on these codes. … Contexts of codes will be analyzed over time and across data sources.

4. CPT | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - The CPT standard consists of three categories: Category I - codes that describe common medical, surgical … Category II - codes that describe performance measurement variables designed to facilitate data collection … Category III - temporary codes that describe emerging technology, services, and procedures.  … CPT codes are used in electronic transaction messages and electronic medical records (EMRs) to accurately … The 2007 version of CPT contains 8,611 codes and descriptors. The standard is updated annually.

5. DATAFORM 3 Medication Error and Near Miss Classification Form (pdf file)
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   June 16, 2021 - Reviewer ID Number: ____ ____ See below for codes 3. Case # 4. Script # 5. … Near miss Codes for Question 6 and 8 1. … LMR Codes for question 11 (Choose all that apply) 1. … None Codes for Question 12 (Choose all that apply) 1. Physician order 2. … Can’t tell Codes for Question 13 1. No 2.

6. ICD | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - The latest version (2001) of ICD-CM is ICD-9-CM , which is the official system of assigning codes to … A draft of ICD-10-CM has been produced; however, the ICD-10-CM codes are not currently valid for any … Expanded injury codes. … Combination diagnosis/symptom codes to reduce the number of codes needed to fully describe a condition

7. CDS Artifact Enhancement Based on Pilot Implementation. Factors to Consider in Managing Chronic Pain: (pdf file)
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   December 01, 2018 - Logical Object Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) codes do not currently exist. … MITRE submitted applications for LOINC codes to be assigned. … standard codes are not currently available. … with the standard codes. … If codes are not available for the express need of a concept, developers are forced to use local codes

8. Standardization and Automatic Extraction of Quality Measures in an Ambulatory EHR (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2009 - measure population and submit those codes to CMS on claims for payment. … Measure 3 is the systolic and diastolic blood pressure (while two CPT codes are applied, both codes … Four codes could have been assigned to each case. … for this indicator 1244 Total codes assigned by coders 201 16% Codes not assigned by coders 1043 … Populations based on ICD9 and CPT codes are not standardized.

9. Using Precision Performance Measurement to Conduct Focused Quality Improvement - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2010 - Exception codes are being introduced into the EHR for 18 national quality measures. … reasons or medical reasons for why quality measures are not met and assess the use of these exception codes … , the impact of exception reporting on measured levels of quality, and the impact of using these codes … on physician satisfaction and self-reported efficiency. ( Ongoing ) Use the exception codes (patient … intervention increases provision of recommended therapies and tests and documentation of exclusion codes

10. Using Precision Performance Measurement to Conduct Focused Quality Improvement - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2011 - Exception codes for 18 national quality measures were introduced into the EHR. … reasons or medical reasons for why quality measures are not met and assess the use of these exception codes … , the impact of exception reporting on measured levels of quality, and the impact of using these codes … (Achieved) Use the exception codes (patient reasons and medical reasons) that clinicians enter to target … intervention increases provision of recommended therapies and tests and documentation of exclusion codes

11. Standards | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Summary: The Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) database provides a universal code … LOINC codes are being used by large reference laboratories and federal agencies, and are part of the … Laboratories should include LOINC codes in their outbound HL7 messages so that clinical and research … CPT) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes … (LOINC) National Drug Codes (NDC) Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED-CT)  Standards

12. Massachusetts Quality e-Measure Validation Study (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - Time Window Enc- ounter Codes Clin- ical Note Diag- nosis Codes Med Codes Lab Codes … Lab Res- ults Proc- edure/ Imag- ing Codes Path/ Imag- ing Res- ults Use of Appropriate … Time Window Enc- ounter Codes Clin- ical Note Diag- nosis Codes Med Codes Lab Codes … Time Window Enc- ounter Codes Clin- ical Note Diag- nosis Codes Med Codes Lab Codes … Time Window Enc- ounter Codes Clin- ical Note Diag- nosis Codes Med Codes Lab Codes

13. NDC | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Background The National Drug Codes (NDCs) are standards for reporting drugs and biological products … The product and package codes are assigned by the manufacturer.

14. Design of a Toolkit to Add Electronic Clinical Data to Statewide Hospital Administrative Claims Data | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - The addition of clinical data to administrative data—especially present-on-admission (POA) codes and … help data organizations increase effectiveness and efficiency when adding laboratory values or POA codes

15. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2008 - AHRQ-funded projects reported that scanners they tested were unable to accurately interpret all of the bar codes … Before purchasing bar code scanners, hospitals should test for compatibility with the bar codes they … Nurses and other caregivers using BCMA scanners must be able to scan bar codes on medication containers … In-house repackaging of medications is often necessary to improve the usability of bar codes and to comply

16. Automating Assessment of Obesity Care Quality - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2010 - The study team will use reasons for visit, orders, referrals, diagnosis codes, laboratory test values … working draft of the OCQ Measure Set developed, have begun to identify the content-specific rules and codes … required to identify the relevant clinical events, such as the order codes used at each site, that indicate

17. Design of a Toolkit to Add Electronic Clinical Data to Statewide Hospital Administrative Claims Data - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2010 - Adding clinical data, especially "present-on-admission" (POA) codes and laboratory results, to existing … help data organizations increase effectiveness and efficiency when adding laboratory values or POA codes … Statewide data organizations also expressed uncertainty about the quality of POA codes collected.

18. The Challenges of Aggregating Patient Data from Multiple Sites (pdf file)
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    June 16, 2021 - Data Elements currently received Core Entity Patient ID Data Lab Results Encounter Data Diagnostic Codes … (working on the project) identified a subset of laboratory test results to begin • A list of ~40 codes … standardized to LOINC across sites • Send LOINC mappings back to sites to load in their LIS • Select next 50 codes … to map • Define process to do annual review and update of LOINC codes http://www.volunteer-ehealth.org

19. Automating Assessment of Obesity Care Quality - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2011 - Measures to evaluate the association include: reasons for visit; orders; referrals; diagnosis codes; … (Ongoing) 2011 Activities: Study staff identified the content-specific rules and codes required … to distinguish the relevant clinical events (e.g., the order codes used at each site that indicate "obesity

20. Utilization of ISO 9001 Principles as a Model for Community Cooperation in Establishing an Anticoagulation Clinic (pdf file)
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    June 16, 2021 - Reporting Variables: Service Line, DRG, Physician, Diagnosis, Procedure, Trending – Including ICD-9 codes … – Reporting Variables: Major Practice Category, ETG, Physician, Trends, Office Processes, CPT-4 Codes … , NDC Codes Tools: Anticoagulation Clinic  Process patient flow chart: This flow chart documents