Diagnosis Telephone Seminars

Best Practices to Modify Electronic Health Records While Maintaining Record Integrity ...ove, and changes that may be improper, such as changes in diagnosis or condition after the fact, might be undetectable and unauditable. Maintaining record integrity can be a difficult task in an EHR. This live audio conference will help you ensure that you have the right practices in place to ensure the integrity of records. Issues of creating a sound legal record are discussed, and the impacts  more...

Risk Management in Telephone Triage: Lessons Learned From Telephone Triage Litigation ...d accountability, telephone triage can result in improper diagnosis and management as well as legal liability. This audio conference will provide a brief overview the concept of malpractice as well as important considerations when providing telephone advice. A case study approach will be used to help providers craft telephone triage systems that improve patient care and decrease the likelihood  more...

Mental Health Record Compliance ...equirements. To the extent they deal with substance abuse diagnosis and treatment, you are also subject to additional federal confidentiality restrictions, particularly part 2 of 42 CFR. You also deal with some specific types of records that are subject to specific requirements under state and federal law. And unlike most nonmental health providers, your patients are often unable to directly  more...

Principal Diagnosis Selection: Ensure Compliance with Official Coding Guidelines ...d undermine medical record coder's selection of principal diagnosis selection under the guise of medical necessity and accurate and compliant coding. Under the RAC Demonstration Project, a pattern of supposed coding errors and medical necessity errors were vested based upon clinically inaccurate and improper principal diagnosis selection. Inaccurate assignment of principal diagnosis contributes  more...

Asperger's Syndrome, NVLD and High Functioning Autism: Diagnosis, Treatment Considerations and Controversies ...rders. We will compare symptoms, discuss the perils of misdiagnosis and attempt to understand why the vast majority of these children and teens are initially misdiagnosed, and what improper treatment can cause. Co-morbidity is the rule, not the exception. We will discuss educational needs and why a 504 or IEP is often crucial for a child's success. This teleconference will also address the  more...

Auditory Processing Disorders: An Effective AUD/SLP Collaborative Approach To Evaluation And Treatment ...e pathologists collaborate effectively in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of APD, and what are the benefits of an effective collaboration? How can audiologists and speech-language pathologists collaborate effectively to help the child with APD function more effectively in academic settings and social situations? n nThis teleconference will provide you with an understanding of auditory  more...