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yourself for increased pay and opportunit<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=1"> VOL. 23 NO. 23 </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=2"> PHYSICIAN PRACTICE CODERS: Looking for a More Se</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=3"> HIT'S THREE MUSKETEERS By Lee DeOrio </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=4"> CONTENTS DECEMBER 19, 2011 14 </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=5"> If you “LIKE” what you see in COMMITTED </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=6"> CODING CORNER MEDICAID RACS PRESENT NEW CONCER</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=7"> same in both cases. No matter if a newborn is ter</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=8"> NEWS BRIEFS Study Details HIE Cost Savings in </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=9"> New Technologies Reshape Roles of CMIOs, Nursing </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=10"> Apply modifiers appropriately to safely cross codi</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=11"> I n today's regulatory environment, no stone shou</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=12"> represents cancellation before anesthesia and 74 </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=13"> to indicate that a procedure or a service was dis</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=14"> THE CCD AND MEANINGFUL USE: A Mutually Beneficial </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=15"> demographics in interoperable formats, the CCD ca</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=16"> A Physician-Friendly CCD Like any technol</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=17"> which first involved analyzing the EMR landscape. </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=18"> Back for 2012: AHIMA Academy for ICD-10-CM/PCS T</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=19"> DRG SPECIALIST/CODER Englewood Hospital & Medi</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=20"> CO·OK·MN·OH·FL·MD ENJOYING LIFE. LOVING WOR</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=21"> Documentation Specialist Deaconess Hospital in S</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=22"> Just Associates to Provide Remote Duplicate Recor</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=23"> From Ohio to Mississippi, Direct Messaging of EHR</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=24"> Florida State University Selects eClinicalWorks </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=25"> When your next great job opportunity is d</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=26"> NeHC Announces 2012 Board of Directors Th</a>
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<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=29"> some cases, simply go out of business. The upheav</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=30"> have been much more apt to orchestrate multiple v</a>
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<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=33"> A growing number of healthcare organiza- </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=34"> the more common form of the disease in which the </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=35"> at using mobile technology, the expectant mother </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=36"> 3-D volume rendering of the abdominal aorta</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=37"> — IMAGE COURTESY OF EMILIO VEGA, NYU LANGONE MEDI</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=38"> Clear the Landscape 3-D imaging capabiliti</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=39"> CODING AND TRANSCRIPTION CODING FROM DIAGNOSTI</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=40"> Query the physician regarding the patient's speci</a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=41"> Consulting Group Launches New HIT Division </a>
<a title="December 19, 2011 - For The Record page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/56efc9e9?page=42"> BY THE NUMBERS $2.6 Million Single sign-o</a>
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