We provide award winning speakers for lots of events. Over the years we been have been invited to speak at a huge range of events, and not all are security focussed.
Where there is a platform to help shape sensible opinion, promote secure behaviours and better ways of doing things, we will gladly get involved – depending on availability of course. “Speaking” doesn’t really cover it though. As no one enjoys a slow death by PowerPoint our presentations usually contain demonstrations with devices and props.
What they never contain are irritating sales pitches. We don’t promote pen testing when presenting at conferences and events; we simply want to help people to learn and understand in an interesting environment. We’ve even won awards! Where to find us, and what you can expect We can provide keynote speakers who will engage and inspire audiences. From the jaded SysAdmin to the FD who hasn’t yet found a way to put a bottom-line benefit on security spend, we can help you tell the full story.
From DEF CON, Black Hat, 44Con, and BSides, through to PCI community events, OWASP chapter meetings, and IoT industry conferences, we have a busy speaking calendar, covering areas such as: IoT device hacking, secure coding, hardware hacking workshops, SCADA and process control security, cyber insurance and social media privacy and security. Ken has been working in IT security for over 15 years. He writes for various newspapers and industry magazines, in an effort to get beyond the unhelpful scaremongering put about by many security vendors.
He works as a Senior Partner at Pen Test Partners LLP, a firm of penetration testers, otherwise known as ethical hackers, who specialise in helping organisations understand and quantify risk to their business. Ken speaks widely on computer security, and takes great pleasure in highlighting vulnerabilities in software and hardware. Mark has been working in information security for over 12 years, mainly in penetration testing and PCI DSS. Since joining Pen Test Partners his interest and knowledge of the Internet of Things and its insecurity has become a passion. This is evident in his briefings which are frequently asked for by CXOs of FTSE 100 companies and industry leaders.
His experience in pen testing and security consultancy, especially in the financial services sector, means that he can pitch the content and tone of his talks to a variety of audiences, from user groups through to senior board.
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For an updated list,. Are you an IT professional working in the areas of software testing, quality assurance, performance monitoring and management, or other areas related to software user satisfaction? If so, you should consider attending a few conferences this year to learn how the experts, including your peers, are handling their constantly evolving job roles and demands.
Testing tools, processes, and expectations are constantly changing, and the conferences listed below can help you keep your skills and knowledge up to date. TechBeacon sought out the best conferences, and ranked them in four categories: • Must-attend. • Worth attending. • Events with a broader scope, but have strong testing, QA, or performance management content. • Large, quasi-legendary conferences whose size and breadth makes them interesting to testing and performance professionals. The world of testing and performance management is turning fast.
DevOps, continuous delivery, agile, and other modern software practices are steadily replacing traditional waterfall methods. As a testing professional, you need to adapt to this new reality.
Testing and QA are interwoven into the development and delivery cycle in a tighter, more automated way, and testing pros need to stay on top of new products, technology changes, and business requirements, especially tighter software security, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
Clinical Documentation Improvement Strategies for Accurate Inpatient Rehab Facility ICD-10-CM Coding IRF-PAI involves choosing ICD-10 codes, selecting impairment group codes, and identifying comorbidities and complications. Although the need for high-quality, patient-specific clinical documentation has always existed, the implementation of ICD-10 has increased the need for clear, detailed, and specific documentation that supports accurate coding. This webinar will explain how the medical record can serve as an important tool for improving communication and for ensuring the continuity of care among physicians and other healthcare providers involved in a patient’s care. It also will focus on how to review the medical record in the acute inpatient rehabilitation setting, how to identify gaps in documentation, and how to encourage rehabilitation physicians to document more details that illustrate the patient’s medical necessity and reflect the burden of care. Location: Online. PCS Coding: It’s All About the Intent of the Procedure Procedure coding changed drastically when ICD-10-PCS went live in October 2015.
In-depth anatomy, root operations, approaches, and seventh characters made coders rethink how they reported procedures within ICD-10-PCS. However as the newness of ICD-10 wears off, experienced coders may be falling back into old ICD-9-CM habits. The finer points of ICD-10-PCS coding may be fading away along with the basic premise of ICD-10-PCS coding: the intent of the procedure. New coders on the other hand are still gaining experience and may not understand how to tie all of the medical record information together for accurate procedure coding Location: Online.
IRF PPS Coding: The Relationship between IRF Tiers and Acute CCs and MCCs In the Inpatient Rehab Facility industry, codes must be assigned for two documents: the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Inpatient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI), which follows IRF-PPS guidelines, and the UB-04, which follows general coding guidelines. An IRF’s reimbursement depends not only on the selection of the etiologic diagnosis, but also on the recording of tiered comorbid conditions that differ from those affecting acute care.
Because the documentation of the patient's current and past health statuses are critical to proper code assignment and payment, HIM professionals are more determined than ever to understand IRF PPS guidelines. This presentation will focus on the differences between IRF-specific tiers, related guidelines, and acute care CCs/MCCs and will explain how CMG tiers adjust the IRF’s payment and the patient’s estimated length of stay.
Illustrations and case studies will demonstrate the financial implications of a lack of IRF PPS knowledge. Location: Online. Getting Physicians Involved in the Business of Care and Revenue Management By 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) actuaries project that the US will spend 19.9% of its GDP on healthcare, which is roughly $5.5 trillion. In a study comparing the 13 highest income countries in the world, the US spent the most on healthcare.
However despite the great amount spent on healthcare, the alarming factors were that the United States had the worst outcomes, highest prevalence of chronic diseases, and shorter life expectancy. Recognizing these facts and to stem rising costs, CMS developed a new form of physician reimbursement for healthcare services; shifting from the Fee-For-Service model to the value-based reimbursement model. This shift will have a significant impact on the bottom-line of healthcare organizations, physician reimbursement/compensation and a patient’s experience of care. Location: Online.
Clinical Decision Support: Risks, Rewards and Requirements The world of clinical-decision support (CDS) is fraught with perils, both clinical and legal, but an absolute necessity for success in a value-based world. This presentation will help HIM professionals better understand the benefits of CDS while balancing the risks associated with its use. The presentation also will discuss best practices when contracting for the use of clinical decision support tools and tips for implementing these tools—all with an emphasis on the potential for these tools to increase the quality of care provided. HIM professionals will learn the risks and rewards of clinical decision support tools. Location: Online. Medical Residents as Key Players in Clinical Documentation As medical students graduate to residents, understanding the impact of clinical documentation is key to ensure accuracy in the EMR. It is the time when they begin to highly impact clinical documentation.
Residency is a good opportunity to for the hospital to train residents in accurate documentation by understanding the challenges a medical resident faces and training them through challenges. Therefore CDI specialists typically are the best trained to assist with the translation and more effectively assimilate documentation into their future careers through clinical documentation and regular meetings. Location: Online. Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP): Advancing the Practice Virtual Learning Prepare to sit for the Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP) certification—one of AHIMA’s most highly regarded credentials—with this self-paced webinar series.
These six webinars review the six domains covered in the exam, assess CDI workflow processes, explain how to analyze and develop effective physician queries, and demonstrate how to evaluate CDI metrics and statistics for tracking CDI program effectiveness. In addition, the content shows how you can assess and apply knowledge of official coding guidelines and MS-DRG assignment. Best of all, this webinar series allows you to study for the CDIP exam when it's convenient for you without traveling, saving you valuable work and study time! Location: Online. CDI for Medicare Risk Adjustment Learn about the Medicare Risk Adjustment model, including RAF scores and HCCs, how provider documentation and coding of certain conditions affects the perceived severity of illness of your patients, and your overall rating as a healthcare provider or institution.
Explore the proper documentation and coding of several common risk-adjusting diagnoses that present a challenge to providers today either because of existing incorrect documentation habits, differences between clinical and coding language, or increased specificity requirements for ICD-10-CM coding. Location: Online. Breach Risk Analysis and Remediation on a Shoe String Budget: One Surgical Specialty Hospital Reports When it comes to privacy and security, small, freestanding, individual providers are at the biggest risk of a breach. Regular risk analysis is required because new threats arise every day.
Inadvertent errors from internal staff run rampant. Despite concerns of cost and complexity, private practices and small provider organizations are much better off if they proactively engage in breach prevention, which includes regular review of administrative processes, physical safeguards, and technical capabilities. Based on the strategy outlined in the “Leading the HIPAA Privacy Risk Assessment” practice brief, AHIMA suggests three key reasons for performing a risk assessment. Location: Online. How IG and Data Analiytics Intersect: HIM Lessons Learned from Online Goliaths Google, Facebook and Amazon are paving the way for healthcare to adopt aggressive analysis of consumer data and predictive modeling.
If effectively aggregated, consumer data is a window into important patient lifestyle decisions, demographic information and healthcare decisions made on the web. The speaker will highlight several places for healthcare organizations to gather new data insights and why they are important to patient care and quality outcomes. The amount of information available is endless, but accountability and governance needs to be established to ensure you are putting clean data to good use. In this webinar, attendees will explore the cross-roads of health IG and data analytics as well as how healthcare organizations and HIM professionals can use consumer data to provide specialized, streamlined care and improve patient outcomes. Location: Online.
Coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement in the Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) setting Gain a better understanding of the unique coding applications and recognize differences in coding guidelines in the long-term care hospital setting. Attendees will learn opportunities for clinical documentation improvement in the long-term care hospital setting.
This webinar will cover diagnostic and procedural codes, review coding guidelines and explain their application, and examine methodologies in clinical documentation improvement. Location: Online. A Day in the Life of an Emergency Department (ED) Coder “A Day in the Life of an ED Coder” will visit a few of the most popular types of encounters that are seen in emergency treatment.
If you are currently an ED coder, you may benefit from the discussion on the more frequent types of patient accounts. Or perhaps you are considering a new job or position change? This session will give insight into coding ED encounters, and you will even have the opportunity to review realistic coding scenarios that are typical of emergency room visits. You will hear about some of the decision-making processes physicians must make in deciding optimal treatment for the patient.
This is an opportunity for a better understanding of ED coding that will encompass ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and CPT with an in-depth focus on laceration repair and fracture coding. Location: Online.
Data Analytics Workshop Do you work with healthcare data but need more in-depth knowledge and the ability to transform that data into meaningful information? As the volume, variety and velocity of data continue to reach unprecedented levels, healthcare organizations must decipher the information that truly counts. This one-day, hands-on workshop explains the processes essential for examining data to uncover hidden patterns, correlations, and other information that can be used to make better decisions. Become the 'go-to' person within your organization for accurate, dependable information by knowing and understanding how to analyze, interpret, and manage data. Each attendee must bring a laptop to this workshop. Location: Chicago, IL. Policies, Training and Systems to Protect the Integrity of the Medical Record The advent of the EMR has been both a blessing and a curse, with all users experiencing simultaneous improvements and decrements in efficiency.
Despite being packed with data, medical record documentation is increasingly devoid of information, which places patient care and regulatory and billing compliance at risk. High-performing healthcare systems increasingly are recognizing these risks and taking measures to effectively improve medical record integrity.
Focusing on individual user behavior, these measures will help identify common risk point areas, how to measure risks, and what can be done to remediate the situation. Location: Online. Compliance in a Connected World: A Guide to Engaging with Patients Online Today’s patient experience extends far beyond the four walls of the office—Today, nearly 88% of patients turn to the Internet to assist with their provider decision making, learn more about their health concerns, manage their health records, and even talk with their providers.
During this session, attendees will learn from several practices that are capitalizing on these tools to not only grow their patient volume and control their online reputations, but to engage with patients, providing them with important information, and even resolving their health concerns. Learn how all of these digital tools work together in a HIPAA compliant manner, educating patients and building loyalty to your organization. Location: Online. Interoperability Does Not Equal Automation: Considerations Regarding the New Frontier In today’s HIM landscape, interoperability is a common word, a theme, a conversation starter at conferences, in meetings and on social media discussions.
However, it’s much like that proverbial “unicorn”, many seek it but few have actually seen it. What does interoperability really mean to key healthcare stakeholders? People have always been at the heart of healthcare and people will continue to be vital to our healthcare information delivery, regardless of the technology and shifts within the industry. It’s a people business.
In this interactive session, attendees will examine what interoperablity means to healthcare organizations, providers, and ultimately the patient. Location: Online. Virtual Information Governance (IG) Boot Camp Deep Dive: Data Governance and Analytics The Virtual Information Governance (IG) Boot Camp Deep Dive: Data Governance and Analytics is two half-day sessions that address the application of IG principles and competencies around Data Governance and Analytics. During this boot camp, participants will gain an understanding of IG, what it is and why it's important to a healthcare organization. Additionally, key IG competencies of Data Governance and Analytics will be discussed in detail. Participants will learn key components of Data Governance and how Analytics is positively impacted through accurate and trustworthy information afforded by Data Governance and the overarching Information Governance Program. Location: Online.
Are Modifiers Impacting your Denials Coding should tell a story of the patient, why the patient was there, and the services that the patient received. Often the codes do not demonstrate a complete picture and modifiers help add clarity to the story.
There are a tremendous number of modifiers, both CPT and HCPCS, that can impact your coding and subsequent payment, either by their non-use or overuse. These can have a negative impact on the revenue cycle and the bottom line. Understand how modifiers should be used and the documentation needed, as well as the financial impact misuse can create. Location: Online. Governance and Stewardship: Everyone's Responsibility In today's world of Health Information, data is the driving force for creating and making changes in health policy, patient care and practice, patient safety and quality initiatives, reimbursement rates and business strategies.
Understanding that not all data is created equal, governance and stewardship is essential in maintaining high-quality and reliable data for clinical and business use. In the world of health information, we all play a part in governance and stewardship. Data is a tangible and intangible asset. What is the cost to your enterprise if the data is lost corrupted? Explore the importance of having a good governance program.
Location: Online. Program Integrity and Analytics This webinar explains how CMS ‘s Program Integrity reduces fraud waste and abuse and can save taxpayers billions of dollars annually by using medical necessity, overpayment and eligibility verification. By using key accurate sources, indicators on claims, and other data points, analytics will be the driver of finding potential risk that can cause an audit or investigation.
At the end, attendees will have a clear understanding of how to identify program integrity issues as it relates to their business and will be able to make informed business decisions that will lead to actionable results to remain in compliance. Location: Online. Faculty Development Regional Meeting These regionally located, in-person meetings, exclusively for educators (full-time, part-time, and adjunct) are intended to share content knowledge and instructional delivery strategies to assist programs in delivery of the 2014 curriculum requirements, while providing a forum for professional networking.
Topics include Hands on Data Analytics; Academic Resources and Academic Affairs Update, Online Teaching Strategies and Resources. Location: Silver Spring, MD. Crack the Codes: Advanced Coding Workshops -Philadelphia If you seek to improve your coding power, Crack the Codes: Advanced Coding Workshop is the program for you. Learn how to analyze documentation in order to select the appropriate CPT code or characters for an ICD-10-PCS or ICD-10-CM code. Each workshop is facilitated by an expert coding faculty member who walks participants through the decision process of identifying correct codes with actual redacted patient health records.
Available in one- to four-day sessions, Crack the Codes: Advanced Coding Workshops allow participants to select the learning path(s) and training they need to advance and grow their coding power. Location: Philadelphia, PA. Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP): Advancing the Practice Virtual Learning Prepare to sit for the Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP) certification—one of AHIMA’s most highly regarded credentials—with this self-paced webinar series.
These six webinars review the six domains covered in the exam, assess CDI workflow processes, explain how to analyze and develop effective physician queries, and demonstrate how to evaluate CDI metrics and statistics for tracking CDI program effectiveness. The six domains covered in the webinar series and the CDIP exam are: • Clinical and Coding Practice • Leadership • Record Review and Document Clarification • CDI Metrics and Statistics • Research and Education • Compliance In addition, the content shows how you can assess and apply knowledge of official coding guidelines and MS-DRG assignment.
Best of all, this webinar series allows you to study for the CDIP exam when it's convenient for you without traveling, saving you valuable work and study time! Bundle up and save more than $100! Bundle includes: Six webinars • 1 Hour Interactive Learning Session • Clinical Documentation Improvement: Principles and Practice book • CDIP exam Objectives • Examine opportunities for CDI in the outpatient setting Location: Online. Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP): Advancing the Practice Virtual Learning Prepare to sit for the Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP) certification—one of AHIMA’s most highly regarded credentials—with this self-paced webinar series.
These six webinars review the six domains covered in the exam, assess CDI workflow processes, explain how to analyze and develop effective physician queries, and demonstrate how to evaluate CDI metrics and statistics for tracking CDI program effectiveness. The six domains covered in the webinar series and the CDIP exam are: Clinical and Coding Practice Leadership Record Review and Document Clarification CDI Metrics and Statistics Research and Education Compliance In addition, the content shows how you can assess and apply knowledge of official coding guidelines and MS-DRG assignment.
Best of all, this webinar series allows you to study for the CDIP exam when it's convenient for you without traveling, saving you valuable work and study time! Bundle up and save more than $100! Bundle includes: Six webinars 1 Hour Interactive Learning Session Clinical Documentation Improvement: Principles and Practice book CDIP exam Objectives Examine opportunities for CDI in the outpatient setting Location: Online. Orthopedic Coding – It’s Complicated Understanding the complexities of ICD-10-CM/PCS orthopedic coding is daunting from the seventh-character applications to fracture types and amputations to fusions and the bones in-between.
To effectively apply code assignments, you must have in-depth knowledge of all its facets, including the anatomy. During this webinar, the speakers will explore all the challenges of orthopedic coding as well as the associated anatomy. It also provides attendees with real-world orthopedic coding examples, anatomy diagrams, and so much more.
Location: Online. How To Avoid Unwanted Hackers and Ramp Up System Security Healthcare organizations are popular targets for malicious hacker attacks. Ransomware, a type of malware, is clearly one of the biggest threats that the healthcare industry has faced in years. While the numbers show cybercriminals were focused on other sectors, providers need to take a proactive approach to protecting their information assets.
This has created a growing need for the privacy, security, and confidentiality of health information. During this webinar, attendees will learn to develop and implement policies and procedures to protect privacy and access to patient health. Location: Online. MACRA: Embracing the Challenge as an HIM Professional The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, better known as MACRA, is a physician-focused quality payment program which will reward, penalize or provide zero adjustment to a clinician’s reimbursement, depending on their performance. While it may appear that the monetary impact of MACRA won’t be felt until the beginning of 2019, it is important to understand that this is not necessarily true. There are maximum negative four percent adjustment penalty for nonparticipation in the quality payment program.
Now is the time for HIM professionals to embrace and understand the changes in physician reimbursement. Understanding eligibility requirements and participation in is critical to preventing the negative four percent penalty.
Location: Online. Psychiatric and Geri-psychiatric Care: Coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement Concepts This webinar discusses how clinical documentation, coding, and query activities impact the revenue cycle for behavioral health inpatient encounters. Discussions will include classification of general medical conditions, behavioral health conditions, and will incorporate various medical or technical terminologies. Case studies will incorporate key points and engage participants in order to strengthen comprehension. This presentation is appropriate for health information management (HIM) department coders, HIM management, CDI staff, revenue cycle managers, clinical support staff and physicians.
Location: Online. Where did all of the 25's go?
It is no secret that CMS and other commercial carriers continue to target the use of the 25-modifier. How do you know that your organization is 100% compliant?
During this session, we will review the rules versus varying opinions and interpretations to identify the four steps in appropriate 25-modifier usage. After wading through the arduous guidelines and learning the four steps, attendees will use actual chart examples in a hands-on application to truly understand the compliant use of the 25 modifier.
Location: Online. HIM's Role in Successful Standardization Is your medical record document type list growing each day and you don’t know why? Are there new document types being added and you think to yourself, I should have known about this before it was implemented?
As stewards of the LMR do you find this difficult to manage? Many organizations struggle with maintaining control of a shared record that spans across multiple hospitals and clinics, yet the HIM Department is responsible for ensuring the record is complete, organized in a logical fashion, and available timely for patient care. Location: Online. Cybersecurity, Cyber-Insurance, and Human Resources Issues in Cyberspace This webinar will teach attendees how to ensure against the most common areas of cyber risk and what the components of a cyber insurance policy should include.
The speaker will discuss human resources and other areas of growing internal risk in healthcare as well as the policies that might help to mitigate or eliminate them. After you listen to this webinar you will be prepared to answer the tough questions. Location: Online. Virtual Information Governance (IG) Boot Camp Deep Dive: Addressing EHR Challenges through IG The Virtual Information Governance (IG) Boot Camp Deep Dive: Data Governance and Analytics is two half-day sessions that address the application of IG principles and competencies around Data Governance and Analytics. During this boot camp, participants will gain an understanding of IG, what it is and why it's important to a healthcare organization. Additionally, key IG competencies of Data Governance and Analytics will be discussed in detail.
Participants will learn key components of Data Governance and how Analytics is positively impacted through accurate and trustworthy information afforded by Data Governance and the overarching Information Governance Program. Location: Online. IRF 60% Compliance: The Effects of Accurate and Inaccurate Coding As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be able to: • Discuss the 60 percent rule and the role of the HIM coder in determining an IRF’s compliance with the rule • Examine the 60 percent rule’s etiologic diagnosis exclusions and their relationship to query opportunities that will help ensure accurate coding according to the ICD-10-CM guidelines • Review noncompliant case scenarios and identify what documentation could be added to support a more specific code that would make each case compliant Location: Online. Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Summit: Advancing the Documentation Journey The AHIMA CDI Summit is the premier industry event dedicated to advancing the documentation journey and exploring the challenges presented by today’s complex healthcare environment. This comprehensive conference presents keynote addresses from nationally recognized industry experts, thus participants will have access to a range of presentations on CDI best practices, innovation, implementation, and ICD-10-CM/PCS.
The Summit consists of interactive sessions and real world examples providing critical insights into CDI programs as well as advanced networking opportunities. By attending this two-day meeting, you will have access to the most up-to-date information and be able apply it within your organization. Move your CDI program forward with the knowledge gained from the CDI Summit! Location: Baltimore, MD. Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Academy: Inpatient and Outpatient Best Practices The AHIMA CDI Academy is a comprehensive program designed to assist CDI professionals in implementing best practices at their organizations. Whether you are new to CDI or an experienced CDI professional ready to take your program to the next level, the Academy offers unique content you can apply to your situation. The presenter covers both inpatient and outpatient settings, creating an even larger return on investment for participants.
During this three-day in-person meeting, you will learn about CDI best practices through real-life examples, exercises, and breakout sessions on specific clinical and coding topics. By encouraging discussion and active learning, this interactive event prepares you to return to your organization with new insights and energy.
Includes an introductory webinar and the Clinical Documentation: Principles and Practice publication. Location: Baltimore, MD. HIMSS Stage 7 and HIM: Going Through a Survey and Beyond Only a small percentage of all US hospitals have reached the top level of HIMSS AMRAM, but it's an important goal for everyone to aim for, and HIM should be a key driver in working toward this level.
More and more organizations are working to achieve the HIMSS Stage 7 designation for inpatient and ambulatory settings. It's a monumental accomplishment to earn this designation and HIM plays a key role in getting to HIMSS stage 7, passing the survey and continuing to the push their organizations forward, even after being designated as HIMSS stage 7. Attendees will learn about the standards, how HIM is impacted, what it's like to go through the surveys and re-certification surveys and what this may mean for HIM in the long term. Location: Online.
E/M Coding, Professional and Facility: Let's Evaluate It! Join us as we take a look at Pro Fee and Facility E/M coding and the associated challenges. We will take an in-depth look at the assignment of these codes through some great coding scenarios. It is important to be able to understand and explain why the services billed may be appropriate, but not identical, across professional and facility claims for the same episode of care. The rules of coding are different between professional physicians and the outpatient facility. During this webinar, attendees will learn the differences between coding and what each coder, professional physician coder and the outpatient facility, look for. Learn about the Pro Fee and Facility E/M coding and the associated challenges.
Location: Online. Ancient Chinese Secret for Post ICD-10 Staffing Challenges Staffing challenges post ICD-10 are nowhere near what they were in ICD-9-CM. Back then, no one was leaving their positions. Recruiting and retaining experienced coding professionals was nearly impossible and the coding profession quickly became a panacea of opportunity for new recruits and allied healthcare professionals.
As a result, thousands of new coders have earned degrees and completed specialized education over the past several years. This massive influx of new coding talent has created different challenges for HIM directors, coding managers and human resource professionals. Attendees will analyze five proven tactics for optimal coder recruitment and hiring in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Location: Online. Welcome to the Alphabet Soup of OIG, MACS, UPICS and RACS In recent years, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and state governments have allocated more resources to identify improper payments and combat healthcare provider fraud, waste, and abuse.
This has resulted in an increase in the number of government audit programs, all of them known by various acronyms. There are many different audit programs that healthcare entities use today. Learn about these audit programs to help your organization understand the various audit guidelines and requirements. Location: Online. Data Analytics Workshop Do you work with healthcare data but need more in-depth knowledge and the ability to transform that data into meaningful information? As the volume, variety and velocity of data continue to reach unprecedented levels, healthcare organizations must decipher the information that truly counts.
This one-day, hands-on workshop explains the processes essential for examining data to uncover hidden patterns, correlations, and other information that can be used to make better decisions. Become the 'go-to' person within your organization for accurate, dependable information by knowing and understanding how to analyze, interpret, and manage data. Each attendee must bring a laptop to this workshop. Location: Miami, FL. Medicare Conditional Payments: Do You Know the Required Steps for Third Party Liability Situations? When Medicare patients present with trauma related to workmen’s compensation or other third-party circumstances, it is crucial that these situations be identified at the time of registration to protect your revenue.
Errors made in patient access often create a ripple effect throughout the billing and collection process, resulting in inability to secure timely payment. Don’t compromise your ability to collect these claims; learn what steps are required and when action must be taken to support your request for a conditional payment.
This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all personnel involved in understanding when and why the billing and collection processes must flow accurately and effectively to secure reimbursement. Location: Online. Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP): Advancing the Practice Virtual Learning Prepare to sit for the Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP) certification—one of AHIMA’s most highly regarded credentials—with this self-paced webinar series. These six webinars review the six domains covered in the exam, assess CDI workflow processes, explain how to analyze and develop effective physician queries, and demonstrate how to evaluate CDI metrics and statistics for tracking CDI program effectiveness. The six domains covered in the webinar series and the CDIP exam are: • Clinical and Coding Practice • Leadership • Record Review and Document Clarification • CDI Metrics and Statistics • Research and Education • Compliance In addition, the content shows how you can assess and apply knowledge of official coding guidelines and MS-DRG assignment. Best of all, this webinar series allows you to study for the CDIP exam when it's convenient for you without traveling, saving you valuable work and study time! Bundle up and save more than $100!
Bundle includes: Six webinars • 1 Hour Interactive Learning Session • Clinical Documentation Improvement: Principles and Practice book • CDIP exam Objectives • Examine opportunities for CDI in the outpatient setting Location: Online. Telemental Health: The HIM Role This webinar will describe and demonstrate how the HIM expertise is needed in the constantly evolving worlds of telemedicine and mental health, specifically telemental health. Doing more with less has become the mantra in mental health circles, as healthcare costs for physical life-saving measures increase and the carve-outs for mental health decrease.
Mental health funding also is sometimes carved out of budgets designed more for physical medical treatments as vast as complex surgeries and long-term care. Location: Online. The In's and Out's of ED Coding Emergency Department visits are often stressful for the patient presenting, but let's think about the coder or physician choosing the E/M level to bill! How hard can this be?
With only five levels to choose from and no distinction between new and established ED patients, this is no problem right? This webinar will present an in-depth review of the Emergency Department E/M codes and what components are required to bill for each ED level. Discover how to audit your ED providers, communicate your findings most effectively, and know when medical necessity comes in to play. Location: Online. Cybersecurity for Executives, Directors, Privacy Officers and senior managers – what they didn’t teach you in the MBA program Ongoing cyberattacks and regulatory enforcements create business arguments for improving information privacy, security and compliance.
This presentation will outline cybersecurity domains, will explain most important concepts and terminology for each of the domains, and will provide examples of activities improving cybersecurity posture within each domain. This understanding will help leaders deal with the governance and accountability around information privacy, security and compliance. At the conclusion of this webinar, attendees will be able to clearly and consistently understand their organization’s security and compliance status communications and will be able to ask better questions without feeling incompetent.
Location: Online. Privacy and Security Training with CHPS Exam Prep Workshop HIPAA and the HITECH Omnibus Rule establish the floor of federal requirements for protected health information (PHI).
Yet cyberattacks and breaches continue to spotlight the need for privacy, security, and confidentiality of health information. Healthcare organizations are in need of trained professionals who can advance the management of privacy, security, and confidentiality practices. AHIMA's privacy and security training validates an individual's skills and competency in this area.
After training, attendees should consider the AHIMA Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS) credential. Register for this two-day, in-person meeting for an in-depth review of HIPAA, the HITECH Omnibus Rule as well as 21st Century Cures Law and other changes to the original rules.
For those interested in certification, the CHPS bundle includes the workshop, a voucher to sit for the exam itself, and the CHPS Exam Prep Book. You will have a solid base to begin studying for the CHPS exam. Location: Las Vegas, NV. Crack The Codes: Advanced Coding Workshops - Las Vegas If you seek to improve your coding power, Crack the Codes: Advanced Coding Workshop is the program for you.
Learn how to analyze documentation in order to select the appropriate CPT code or characters for an ICD-10-PCS or ICD-10-CM code. Each workshop is facilitated by an expert coding faculty member who walks participants through the decision process of identifying correct codes with actual redacted patient health records. Available in one- to four-day sessions, Crack the Codes: Advanced Coding Workshops allow participants to select the learning path(s) and training they need to advance and grow their coding power. Location: Las Vegas, NV. AHIMA Data Institute: Making Information Meaningful Have you ever wondered about the data connections made throughout the healthcare industry—not just those happening in your own organization? Whether it's terminologies found in the billing system or the data analysis needed for strategic planning, today’s healthcare leaders must understand where and how data affects their organization—internally and externally. The Data Institute is an in-depth thought leadership summit that explores the many connections surrounding healthcare data, and how classification and terminologies provide more specificity to that data.
As an attendee, you will hear from industry experts on innovative best practices for data management and real-world experiences on critical topics. Tackle healthcare’s data connections at this must-attend industry event! Location: Las Vegas, NV. Identity Protection and Cloud Computing Security – the Azure Cloud Example User’s credentials are primary targets of phishing or social engineering attacks as users’ credentials or identities provide access to company networks. This is especially challenging for organizations with multiple locations and those with mobile workforce, contractors and partners who need to access company resources 24/7.
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Location: Online. 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CT Event Type: Webinar HIM Domain: Confidentiality Privacy and Security Continuing Education Units Available: 2 Location: Online Venue: Online 2018 Speaking Opportunities Advancing the Documentation Journey August 6 - August 7, 2018 The submission deadline date is February 19, 2018. Inspiring Leadership Influencing Change September 22 - September 27, 2018 Exhibit Opportunities Exhibitions are cost-effective, powerful sales tools that allow you to demonstrate your products and services, gain exposure to strategic decision makers and position your company as an industry leader. AHIMA is offering exhibit opportunities at select meetings in 2018, including the Annual AHIMA Convention and Exhibit (Miami, FL) and the Assembly on Education (Indianapolis, IN). For further information, please contact: Exhibit & Interim Sponsorship Sales Phone: 469-291-8626 Exhibits Manager Phone: 312-233-1101 AHIMA 2018 Corporate Sponsorship Program Advance the HIM Profession & Achieve Business Results Since your organization spends a significant amount of time and money on the development of key marketing, branding, and philanthropic strategies, you deserve a significant return on investment. AHIMA Corporate Sponsorship Program is designed to help your organization maximize the success of these strategies.
As HIM’s role in the transformation of healthcare delivery continues to expand, industry professionals are looking for resources to help them be more effective and efficient, every step of the way. When you align with the leadership position of AHIMA, the nation's largest organization of HIM and related professionals, your company becomes a part of the solution. Elevate your organization’s marketing initiatives and increase visibility through high impact sponsorships, and together we can help move HIM forward. Coming Soon: 2018 Sponsorship Opportunities Catalog To discuss your organization’s objectives and how AHIMA sponsorship can help your reach them, contact: Exhibit & Sponsorship Sales Phone: 469-291-8626 Exhibits Manager Phone: 312-233-1101 Health Information Professionals Week Join AHIMA in celebrating Health Information Professionals (HIP) Week March 18–24, 2018! Check back in the coming weeks for more information.