Take your CDI efforts to new heights. Discover how technology can serve as a catalyst for success, unlocking the next level of performance for your CDI program and elevating its impact. Uncover key metrics to monitor and track, enabling you to effectively demonstrate the value and success of your CDI initiatives within your healthcare organization and solidifying its position as a critical component of revenue integrity and achieving recognition for quality care delivery.
Feb 27, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Explore the complex landscape of implementing new healthcare technology. We’ll delve into the challenges and concerns healthcare providers face, from confusion surrounding AI/ML to complacency with existing solutions. Gain a deeper understanding of the crucial role leadership plays in fostering a culture of adaptability, remaining flexible in the face of challenges, and mitigating resistance to change. Learn how adherence to best practices and robust tracking and measurement strategies are essen...
Dec 08, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In an era where consumer awareness and freedom of choice regarding healthcare is on the rise, having the quality of care you deliver be reflected accurately across the variety of scoring and ranking systems is more important than ever. In this client featured presentation lead by Iodine’s Carmel Murphy, Clinical Product Consultant, we explore how accurate and complete documentation serves as the foundation for good quality metrics. Learn firsthand from our valued clients about their journey towa...
Nov 08, 2023•8 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Every year Iodine Software conducts a client wide cohort study measuring various key metrics in the clinical documentation integrity space and the impact that Iodine has had. In this month's episode we're joined by Iodine's Chief Customer Officer, Brad Wensel, and Chief Operating Officer, Joshua Toub, to review the most recent cohort study of 2022 data and explain the metrics, methodology and discuss the most recent findings.
Aug 21, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Clinical documentation integrity teams play a critical role in ensuring quality healthcare and impacting a hospital's quality ranking. In this podcast episode of Iodine Intelligence, Fran Jurcak, Iodine's Chief Clinical Officer, and Tanya Motsinger, the System Director of Clinical Documentation Integrity at OhioHealth, discuss the importance of CDI programs and how AI-powered prioritization tools can help improve efficiency and impact quality metrics. OhioHealth is a nationally recognized non-pr...
Jun 15, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The healthcare industry is facing significant challenges as it navigates economic uncertainties in 2021 and beyond. In a recent Iodine Intelligence podcast, Troy Wasilefsky of Iodine Software, Harold Mueller of BJC Healthcare, and Robin Damschroder of Henry Ford Health discussed strategies for building financial resilience and tackling the financial issues facing the industry. The pandemic has led to a decline in overall CMI due to both a decrease in medical CMI and surgery volumes that have not...
May 24, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 4
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just for gamers or factory warehouse robots—it can, quite literally, save lives in the healthcare sector. AI in healthcare can be used to improve diagnostic detection speed for diseases, improve personalization of medical treatments, and automate drug discoveries. How should healthcare companies be approaching AI use, and what benefits and drawbacks can they expect to see when deploying AI? On today’s episode of Iodine Intelligence, Empowering Intelligent Care...
Apr 13, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Since OpenAI debuted ChatGPT in November of 2022, there has been a ton of discussion on its potential, and the implications on everything from schoolwork to medicine, marketing to law school. Fran Jurack, Iodine's Chief Clinical Strategist discusses ChatGPT's potential in the clinical documentation space and it's limitations.
Mar 08, 2023•21 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are taking over the health industry and renovating healthcare technology. It has for some time now being a Lodestar into improving and delivering quality healthcare. A ton of information is being collected but isn’t being utilized simply because the existing technology doesn’t know what to do with the data. A recent report from RBC Capital Markets states 30% of the world's data is generated in the healthcare industry, and it is e...
Jan 12, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The healthcare industry continues to become more and more tech savvy. Technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can help drive significant improvements in healthcare and with organizations like Leapfrog Group weighing in on hospital standards and ratings with a variety of scoring metrics, healthcare facilities continue to innovate. Perhaps one of the most important details, often overlooked in the face of shiny new tools, is the need for facilities to continue to improve upo...
Nov 02, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Iodine, a company dedicated to transforming the healthcare industry with AI-enabled technology welcomes Priti Shah to the organization as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Shah came to the organization with 20-plus years of corporate and product strategy experience. In her role at Iodine, she will be guiding the platform strategy vision while overseeing the product and engineering teams. Driven by a passion to serve people and improve lives Shah works from a position of strength when managin...
Sep 15, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode of Iodine Intelligence, Fran Jurcak, Chief Clinical Strategist at Iodine Software and Kati Beisel, Director of Health Information for Integris Health, which is Oklahoma's largest state-owned not-for-profit health care system and ranked one of the top 25 health care systems in the US, discuss the difficulties associated with solving the challenges presented by mid-revenue cycle leakage. There are many costs associated with mid-revenue cycle leakage both immediate and long-term. No...
Aug 03, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
As hospital profit margins continue to shrink, achieving ROI, especially after investment in new technology, is critical. After implementing new software to help their CDI team prioritize and manage cases, West Tennessee Healthcare saw improvements to key metrics and achieved a financial return almost 3x more than expected.
Jul 13, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 6
When applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to problems, accuracy is critical. If a model’s predictions aren’t precise, then they can’t contribute to better outcomes, which is vital in the delivery of better care. The objective is for the predictive models to become more accurate through an iterative process. To discuss the evolution of and objectives for iodine AI models, “Iodine Intelligence” Host Hilary Kennedy spoke with Lance Eason, Chief Data Scientist.
Jun 01, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 5
There are six domains of health care quality outlined by the IOM (Institute of Medicine.) These include Safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Fran Jurcak, Chief Clinical Strategist, Iodine Software, and Deborah Jones, Director of Clinical Documentation Improvement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, spoke with Lauren Hickey on how documentation accuracy can help achieve quality processes and outcomes in health care. People want to go where they are going to get the be...
May 04, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Iodine Software, a healthcare AI company, recently received the number one rating for clinical documentation integrity from KLAS Awards. William Chan, CEO and Co-Founder, and Tim O’Hara, Vice President of Client Experience at Iodine, joined Host Lauren Hickey to explain the significance of this. KLAS was first unsure how to categorize Iodine when they came on scene. “What we have had to do is establish ourselves in a category, in this case the category of clinical documentation integrity,” state...
Apr 06, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The use of technology and data in healthcare decision-making is on the rise. Unfortunately, most systems think like computers, not clinicians. However, machine learning can deliver insights that rules-based prioritization cannot. Discussing this topic, Iodine Software’s Chief Data Scientist Lance Eason and Chief Revenue Officer Troy Wasilefsky joined host of Iodine Intelligence, Hilary Kennedy. First, Eason explained some of the issues with revenue cycle management, such as not recognizing the c...
Mar 02, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Frank Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, the Chief Clinical Strategist for Iodine Software, brought the goods on the secrets of mid-revenue cycle management. With hospitals operating on tighter and tighter margins, clinical documentation improvement programs (CDIs) must optimize to take advantage of every savings opportunity. “Healthcare systems are truly on very tight margins now, and that requires real close attention to efficiency and appropriate utilization of resources,” Jurcak explained. “So, ...
Feb 01, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 1
