Iodine Intelligence - Empowering Intelligent Care

About Iodine Intelligence - Empowering Intelligent Care

Iodine Software’s mission has been to change healthcare by applying our deep experience in healthcare along with the latest technologies like machine learning to improve patient care. The Iodine Intelligence podcast features leaders in the healthcare technology space to further the conversation in how technology and clinicians can work together to empower intelligent care.

Category

health & fitness · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2022

Latest episode

27 Feb 2024

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Feb 2024

   Raising the Bar: Strategies for Elevating CDI in Your Organization

   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.

2. 

   8 Dec 2023

   Scaling Success: Implementing New Technology Across Your Organization

   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 essential to garnering staff buy-in.

3. 

   8 Nov 2023

   Unlocking Excellence and Navigating Quality Metrics

   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 towards improving quality scores by prioritizing documentation integrity, and how technology has been instrumental in driving this shift.

4. 

   21 Aug 2023

   Impact Amplified: Exploring Success Stories from Iodine Cohort

   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.

5. 

   15 Jun 2023

   Triumphing with Tech - Empowering Staff and Maximizing Results

   In this episode of Iodine Intelligence: Empowering Intelligent Care, our host Lauren Hickey is joined by Fran Jurcak, Iodine Software's Chief Clinical Officer, and Tanya Motsinger, the System Director of Clinical Documentation Integrity at OhioHealth. They discuss how clinical documentation integrity teams can impact a hospital's quality ranking and why a prioritization tool can help CDI departments become more efficient in their workflows. The conversation delves into healthcare quality metrics and the connection between CDI.

6. 

   24 May 2023

   Opportunities and Obstacles: A CFO Conversation on Health System Financial Resiliency

   In this month's episode, host Lauren Hickey sits down with Troy Wasilefsky, Robin Damschroder of Henry Ford Health, and Harold Mueller of BJC Health Care to discuss the impact of COVID on medical CMI, surgical volumes, and overall CMI.

7. 

   13 Apr 2023

   The Spectrum of AI in Healthcare: Understanding the Levels of Intelligence in AI

   Priti Shah, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Iodine Software, explains the benefits and drawbacks of AI in healthcare and helps listeners understand how the healthcare industry should approach use of AI models to problem solve.

8. 

   8 Mar 2023

   Beyond Buzzwords: Understanding the Real Potential of ChatGPT in CDI

   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.

9. 

   12 Jan 2023

   Unlocking the power of Concurrent

   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 expected to surpass 36% in the next three years. Handling this sort of information is a challenge as most healthcare AI technology relies on simple technologies like rules and checklists.

10. 

    2 Nov 2022

    Should a CDI Specialist Query if There is No Impact?

    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.

11. 

    15 Sept 2022

    Introducing Iodine's New Chief Product and Technology Officer, Priti Shah

    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 managing product portfolios. “I really think that product management is all about empathizing with users, identifying opportunities, and collaborating with others,” said Shah. This intriguing podcast will certainly delight listeners as Shah passionately discusses the career journey that led her to Iodine, her product management methodology, and the importance of customers in the product development lifecycle. Shah began her career as a product analyst where she focused on research, pricing models and crunching numbers. “I realized really quickly that all this analysis that I was doing was being leveraged by product leaders to make prioritization and tread-off positions. I think that’s when I started getting introduced into this real discipline of product management and that’s where my career trajectory started into this field of bringing ideas to market from concept to delighting customer needs,” she explained. Focused on making products and technologies that positively impact people’s lives, Shah noted that the motivation that guided her and her teams throughout her career to work harder and smarter was the knowledge that the work they were doing empowered people. Her obsession with customers and empowering people continues to drive her within the healthcare technology space.

12. 

    3 Aug 2022

    The Impact of Mid-Revenue Cycle Leakage on the Healthcare System

    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.

13. 

    13 Jul 2022

    ROI At Speed

    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.

14. 

    1 Jun 2022

    Progression of Accuracy with Lance Eason

    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.

15. 

    4 May 2022

    Defining Quality as a Process or an Outcome with Fran Jurcak and Deborah Jones

    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 best care, so having the ability to determine which hospitals offer optimum quality is essential. “All of this documentation translates into publicly reported information that is driving hospital reputation and consumer decisions about where they will receive care,” Jurcak said. “It’s about ensuring that the world can see the level of care you provide, and what level of acuity patients are experiencing, and whether or not they have positive outcomes.” More and more, these quality outcome metrics and reimbursement are tied together. Penalties, payment, and accreditation withholdings could occur if healthcare organizations do not meet specific benchmarks. Without proper accreditation, healthcare organizations may not be able to offer certain services. Jones said that in Boston, where Brigham Health is one of many renowned healthcare institutions, they constantly need to prove to their consumers that they are delivering the best care. “First and foremost, it’s about documentation accuracy; ensuring the basic CDI, that all conditions are being monitored and treated are capturable.” Improvements in quality ranking and scoring of documentation allow systems to capture an accurate patient’s clinical picture. “There are conditions that are now important to these methodologies in terms of identifying risk that historically in the documentation world we didn’t worry about,” Jurcak said. “Today, it’s about capturing the true clinical picture about what’s happening to patients so you can best reflect yourself as an organization to the outside world.” Iodine created a documentation accuracy index to determine if what’s in the medical record is happening to the patient. This index can solve documentation issues, close gaps, and increase reimbursement.

16. 

    6 Apr 2022

    Journey to Best in KLAS with William Chan and Tim O'Hara

    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,” stated Chan. “We started out with an innovative product, and now we are an innovative platform.” So, what does this to award mean to Iodine? “It’s not enough for us to think that we have a great product, a great service. That needs to be validated by healthcare professionals who hold us to a very high standard as they should,” said O’Hara. Chan explained that this success showed that Iodine’s product worked, delivered value, and was used repeatedly. Being the best is not everything, though. Iodine places emphasis on upholding values. “I think it really comes down to making sure you’re delivering a product that people really want to use and that the promises that you make in the product, you actually deliver on,” said Chan. “We are never too proud of listening to the feedback, good and bad.” Iodine plans to stay the best through one word—obsession. “It’s important for the Iodine team to continue to obsess over all of these details. To obsess over customer usage, obsess over the feedback that we get, we need to obsess over all those details,” said Chan. He added, “It’s that obsession of wanting to hit the mark with the customer that I think is going to allow us to continue to be the best in KLAS.” For the latest news, subscribe to Iodine Intelligence.

17. 

    2 Mar 2022

    Rules-Based Prioritization Versus Machine Learning with Lance Eason and Troy Wasilefsky

    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 clinical cycle. Because hospitals earn revenue via quality of care — not selling products — administrators need to analyze what’s clinically happening with the patient to address the problem. “Most software is built for workflows, which causes revenue and quality indicator leakage. What it should actually do is solve the underlying problems,” Wasilefsky added. One example of this is documentation integrity, or lack thereof, while patients are in the hospital, and machine learning could help fill that gap. The challenge is that the physicians provide context to improve the quality of records while machine learning simplifies it by pre-populating queries with a high degree of confidence that there’s a correction opportunity. Iodine Software’s solution involves sending the notification directly to the doctor’s phone or EHR record. When comparing rules-based approaches to machine learning, there are clear benefits for the latter. Rules-based has even more issues because it can’t collect the nuances of diagnosis, as diseases can present differently in patients. However, as Eason explained, “machine learning is good at picking up on subtle patterns and looking at multiple different patterns.” Subscribe to the Iodine Intelligence podcast and visit https://iodinesoftware.com to learn more.

18. 

    1 Feb 2022

    Mid-Revenue Cycle Management: How to Measure, Manage, and Minimize Leakage

    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, with the increasing demands put on accuracy and depth of documentation, records need to be reviewed daily to identify discrepancies between the clinical evidence and the accuracy of the documentation.” Because human resources are at a premium in healthcare, there are not enough people to keep up with the need for this type of daily review. Between documentation, changing regulations, and new evolving technology, it isn’t easy to know what to do next Accuracy is the name of the game in all aspects of healthcare, especially in the documentation. “Documentation drives the final reporting of codes, and without that clear, consistent, and complete documentation, it’s impossible to accurately code what’s really happening and results in inaccurate reimbursement,” Jurcak said. So, what can healthcare organizations do to minimize documentation leakage and increase accuracy? “To solve this leakage issue, you got to focus first on documentation integrity across all records,” Jurcak said. “We can’t be targeting a particular metric or particular condition to say this is how I’m going to solve all problems because it’s only solving a very small problem.” According to Jurcak, AI technology could play a role in assisting by emulating the clinical brain of a provider and in the identification of the correct records.

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