coding Archives

16 October 2006

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, one of the most indebted trusts in the country, is facing a potential

4 May 2006

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is getting ready to go live with patient administration and clinical systems from

9 March 2006

Health information managers fear they may not have the resources to implement the new OPCS4.3 clinical coding system due to

3 March 2006

Clinical coders are coming under pressure to ‘upcode’ to maximise income under Payment by Results, a conference heard last week.

30 December 2005

Steve Tocker from Softech Global outlines how voice recognition and digital dictation can be used in the healthcare sector, and

17 November 2005

A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of

12 October 2005

NHS trusts must urgently invest in the financial and performance management and supporting information systems, the Audit Commission says in

28 September 2005

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of

30 August 2005

Bedford Hospital’s accident and emergency unit has gone live with a new computer system developed by ExtraMed called A&E Whiteboard.

8 August 2005

Electronic records are just the first step in harnessing information and communication technology to improve clinical care – the real

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