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Technology and Logistics Support Operational Excellence
“transition” in medical technology stirs many exciting thoughts. Injectible nanobots delivering medications (and even repairing cells), robotic surgery, and genetic therapy make news that transcends the medical community.
There are other health care revolutions, however, in technology, in use of data, and in logistics, that don’t make the headlines. They organize data, assign codes, send bills,
deliver alerts, keep records, and assure that the proper meds are where they’re supposed to be, accounted for, and properly delivered. Number-crunching stu .
Smart use of data and logistics has become a crucial “deliverable” in the modern health care environment. One driver of this trend has been the growing data appetite of health care funders and regulators.
The past year saw the latest revision of the International Classi cation of Diseases codes, ICD-10. This overhaul of the diagnostic codes health care providers must use grabbed headlines, not only for the staggering expansion of diagnoses from 4,000 to 72,000, but also for the speci city of some new conditions. As ICD-10 came into force in October, we were treated to news
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