Medical Coding AHIMA Seminar

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) will conduct a two day seminar called “Achieving Coding Excellence” at Colorado Springs, CO, on February 28-29, 2008.

The meeting is focused at Coding professionals, Managers of coding, Coding Consultants and others involved in the reporting or use of coded data in hospital settings including both long term care and acute care.

Here is the meet’s agenda http://www.ahima.org/coding/documents/Agendaforwebsite11.30.07.pdf

By attending the conference one can,

• Gain appreciation for how the consistency of coded data and the role of data quality in measuring compliance and quality of care reporting.
• Understand the impact of the new MCC/CC codes, documentation requirements, and query opportunities
• What’s new in the ICD-10-CM classification system
• Apply coding guidelines and expand clinical knowledge for coding specific challenges.
• Awareness of the coder’s role in emerging clinical terminologies and classification systems in electronic health record.

Registration details are available at http://www.ahima.org/coding/2008CCRegistration.asp

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