agenda
Computer-Assisted Coding Software Standards Workshop
[Meeting Information | Hotel & Travel | Registration]
Friday, October 5, 2007
7:30 - 8:30 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Sign up for workgroup breakouts
8:30 - 8:45 am
Welcome “A Day in the Life….”
Susan Belley, M.Ed. RHIA
Manager, Coding
Health Data Services
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Introductions/Orientation
Susan H. Fenton, PhD, RHIA
Director of Research
AHIMA Foundation on Research and Education (FORE)
8:45 – 9:30 am
Keynote Address
Manisha M. Sheth
US Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
9:30 – 10:00 am
Networking Break
10:00 – 11:45 am
Presentation of Papers: Enabling Technologies for Process Improvement
CDA for Common Document Types: Objectives, Status and Relationship to Computer-Assisted Coding
Liora Alschuler
Defining the Standard for Automated E&M Coding Through Coding Consistency Methodology
James Flanagan, MD, PHD; Mariana dos Santos, MD
The Impact of Physician Quality Measures on the Coding Process
Mark Morsch; Ron Sheffer; Susan Glass; Carol Stoyla; Sean Perry
Use of the Delphi Method to Generate a Gold Standard for the Medical Coding Industry
Elliott Familant, PhD; Stuart Covit; Andrew Covit ,MD
11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch: AHIMA Coding Process Model Poster Project and Paper
AHIMA Community of Practice Representative
Jean Bishop
1:15 – 2:45 pm
Presentation of Papers: Automation of Coding Process Factors
Evaluating E&M Coding Accuracy of GOCODE (CAC Technology) as Compared to Internal Medicine Physicians and Auditor
Rhonda Thomas, PhD, MBA; Judith Hanlon
Computer Assisted Coding At Its Limits- An Analysis of More Complex Coding Scenarios
Mark Morsch, Michael Landis, Ronald Sheffer, Stacy Rogers
Evaluation and Management Documentation and Coding Technology Adoption
Susan Fenton, PhD, MBA, RHIA; Larry Gamm, PhD
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Networking Break
3:00 –4:15 pm
Presentation of Papers: Environmental Issues Affecting CAC Adoption and Use
Beyond Coding Accuracy: Three Perspectives on the Potential of Structured Input CAC
Dennis McNanny, Paul Schwaegler, David Hanscom, Stacy Lambeth
Qualitative Study of Coding Professional’s Attitudes Towards Computer Assisted Coding
Mary Stanfill, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P
Communication of Clinically Relevant Data in Electronic Health Records: A Comparison Between Structured Data and Unrestricted Physician Language
Philip Resnik, Richard Toren, Michael Nossal, Michael Niv
4:15 – 5:00 pm
Closing Comments
Presentation of the Workgroup Topics and Process
Saturday, October 6, 2007
7:30 - 8:30 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 am
Breakouts
Facilitated breakout sessions create an opportunity for dialog and capture of important issues affecting standards development and best practice adoption related to the application of technology to clinical code assignment. Participants will take away new knowledge of the status of computer assisted coding standards and up to the minute insight on the latest developments and perspectives related to improvements in the coding workflow process made possible by innovation. Scribes are assigned to each of the breakout sessions to enable publishing of conference proceedings following the workshop.
Session A
Coding quality assurance methods
This breakout will focus on performance/quality measure from other disciplines, identifying ideas that can be useful in coding evaluation, and translating them to health information management and code assignment.
Session B
Measurements of documentation quality and code assignment from a clinician’s perspective
Coding professionals are frequently concerned with what they see as deficiencies in documentation, which can lead to coding errors that may persist as CAC software tools are used. This session will facilitate dialog between physicians and coders about how to measure the quality of documentation and its impact on code assignment.
9:45 – 10:00 am
Networking Break
10:00 am – 12 Noon
Breakouts
Session A
Prioritization of specific coding guidelines that might enable progress towards greater consistency and ease of automation
There are gray areas in code reporting guidelines that make it more challenging for human coders to be consistent and the variety of rules required for use also makes it more difficult for CAC technology to help. The objectives of this session are to:
- Identify which areas of coding are the greatest pain points in terms of unclear guidelines
- Suggest which area the largest and most rapid gains might be practical in and
- Suggest processes for improving consistency in those areas within individual organizations and in the coding community at large
Session B
Exploring the impact of technology on the coding process
How can CAC technology help the clinician to tell the clinical story concisely? In what ways can technology help coding professionals to be more accurate, consistent and productive?
This session will engage the audience in identifying issues and recommending steps towards process improvement
12 noon – 1:30 pm
Working Lunch
- Reports from breakout groups
- Reactor comments, summary and wrap up
- Highlights for presentation to the CAC networking forum
1:30 pm
Meeting Concludes
Sponsored by 
7.5 Hours AHIMA Continuing Education
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