When it comes to project management, many organizations find themselves understaffed and that’s putting them at a competitive disadvantage, according to a study by ESI International.
Project managers are in short supply, and that will leave many organizations woefully disadvantaged as the economy rebounds, according to a recent study by project management training company ESI International.
The ESI 2013 Project Manager Salary and Development Survey, based on data from 1,...
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Many organizations may soon find themselves understaffed with project managers, putting them at great disadvantage as the economy continues to recover.
That is the finding of the recent study ESI 2013 Project Manager Salary and Development Survey by project management training company ESI International. The firm surveyed 1,800 project managers in 12 different industries in the U.S.
“Budget constraints, an aging base of professionals and a looming talent war all contribute to a...
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Healthcare organizations struggling with information technology must “adapt or die,” according to a recent article in CIO magazine.
Thanks to electronic health records, patient data is now in repositories, and CIOs must make sense of all that data and protect it.
Skip Snow, a senior analyst with Forrester research and advisory firm, told CIO about five technology imperatives for U.S. healthcare providers—here are three:
Clean up data: Snow says organizations must at...
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Application support and maintenance is now costing 38 percent of the IT budgets of the Global 2000 companies—an increase of 29 percent, according to a new study.
IT services company HCL recently surveyed 300 CIOs on how much they are spending annually on app support and maintenance. The study found that on average, top firms spend approximately $11.3 million each.
But the study also revealed that much of this spending tends to be technology led rather than business led,...
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ICD-10 Coding Basics MLN Connects™ Video
Are you ready to transition to ICD-10 on October 1, 2014? To help make sure you’re prepared, CMS has released a new MLN Connects™ video on ICD-10 Coding Basics. Sue Bowman from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) provides a basic introduction to ICD-10 coding, including:
Similarities to and differences from ICD-9
ICD-10 code structure
Coding process and examples
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The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is urging the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to conduct full end-to-end testing of ICD-10 to prevent cash-flow problems for physician practices.
In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week, MGMA calls front-end testing “simply insufficient.” It points to the problems with the adoption of HIPAA Version 5010 as an example that physician practices need to be better prepared.
MGMA cites three reasons more...
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