The rise of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic pushed up the timetable on telehealth education for medical schools and residency programs. But the relative lack of training using this newer care modality hasn’t just been a challenge for physicians in training. Preceptors also suffer from lack of preparedness in making the transition from face-to-face visits to online consults.

Time for CDI checkup. Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) programs may be exposing hospitals to unnecessary, costly compliance risks and financial exposure by virtue of their very nature and purpose.

The fiscal year (FY) 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is short on coding news but remarkably long on its descriptions. The final rule weighs in at 2,087 pages.

When it comes to usability, doctors give electronic health record (EHR) systems an “F”. And that poor usability correlates with physician burnout, according to a study published today in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers surveyed 870 U.S. physicians about EHRs and asked them to rank system usability with a score of 0 to 100. The mean score was...