After two years of following a doctor around the office as a medical assistant, Raina Diaz was ready for a change. “I wanted to be part of the back end of the medical field,” says Diaz, 47, of St.

You hear about AI changing things everywhere, and medicine is no different. One area where it’s really making a difference is ...

Stuart Robinson began working at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in a temporary role after university, but has since made the move into a career within clinical coding. We sat down with ...

Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

Medical coders are in great demand as healthcare becomes increasingly data-driven. They ensure that every stakeholder is aware of the medical information, which helps to keep things going smoothly.

Quality medical coders can provide an invaluable service to physician practices, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers by decreasing denials, speeding up the reimbursement process and ensuring ...

Teaching medical coders advanced medical coding skills was the focus of workshops run by the World Bank and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Indonesia this year. Codes are ...