As the healthcare industry moves toward adoption of EHRs, facilities need structured data entry capabilities to realize increased efficiency in completing medical records and maintaining documentation integrity.
In this column, we often discuss challenges with EHR systems. Sometimes these relate to technical problems, other times they are process related, and occasionally-as we'll be doing in this issue-we talk about the need for effective "people management."
The AMA revamped coding for molecular pathology beginning in 2012 and continuing in the 2013 CPT ® Manual. Now CMS is trying to determine how to pay for those tests and the agency wants to hear from providers.
