3 Suggestions for Dealing with Healthcare Audits

While at AHIMA 2013, one of the big topics people were discussing was all of the audits that the HIM staff are having to deal with on an ongoing basis. Everyone that I talked to said that there is no end in sight when it comes to the various audits. In fact, most were predicting even more audits to come.

I sat down with Dawn Crump, VP of Audit Management Solutions from HealthPort, to find out some suggestions for organizations trying to deal with this wave of audits in healthcare. Check out the video below to hear those suggestions (plus, she throws in a fourth and fifth bonus suggestion):

How is your organization dealing with all of these audits? Have you formalized and streamlined the process in your organization? Do you have an easy way to track all of your audits? Do you know the financial impact of these audits on your organization?

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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