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Welcome to our new ACE 2013 interactive schedule application, Sched! With Sched you can easily read session descriptions and speaker bios. Personalize Sched by creating a custom schedule based on the sessions you are interested in attending using the Sched website or mobile app. You can view your schedule as a simple list, detailed view, or grid view; sort by venue or session type; and identify each activity at a glance with Sched’s useful color-coding system. Once you are headed to or arrive at the convention, you can print or sync your schedule to your smart phone for easy viewing!
The ACE Sched even highlights friends and contacts also attending, so after you create a Sched profile, connect using your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Foursquare accounts to network ahead of time.
Current information as of 7-23-2013; schedule subject to change.
With an October 2014 deadline for the transition to ICD-10 looming, many healthcare organizations are preparing for the change by implementing computer-assisted coding (CAC) systems. Current CAC programs incorporate natural language processing (NLP) technology that reads documentation and suggests appropriate coding. The implementation of CAC will probably have upstream implications for healthcare documentation specialists. It will, for example, likely foreground quality and accuracy in transcription (whether classical dictation or speech-recognition editing) and may affect MTSO and individual approaches to workflow structure, compensation, and other aspects of the creation of healthcare documents at their point of origin. The central importance being given to NLP in the CAC process is good news for AHDI members and colleagues. Why? Because as NLP function improves with ongoing development, it enables the revitalization of the health story concept—the unique medical narrative—as an indispensable element in health information, and creation of the unique medical story has, for 50 years, been the core function of medical transcriptionists and healthcare documentation specialists. MT and HDS practitioners can prepare for this changing landscape by staying aware of current events and being ready to upgrade and maintain their clinical knowledge and skills.
Attendees will leave with an understanding CAC technology and processes as well as NLP technology, processes, and its place in CAC and the future of the health story. Also learn how to map out personal profession goals in synchronization with CAC developments.
Credit: 1 Professional Development or 1 Technology and the Workplace
