HCC coding improves the quality of patient care and reduces the cost of healthcare. But, like any tool, it’s only effective if the people who use it have it mastered. That’s why it’s so important to provide HCC coding education across your organization. In this article, we will share how DoctusTech helps deploy HCC coding education across your organization.
At DoctusTech, we are always eager to assist healthcare organizations boost HCC training programs. We believe that solving the three shortcomings of risk adjustment—the data gap, the workflow gap, and the knowledge gap—is critical. Most available solutions address only the data or workflow gaps. However, if your clinicians don’t have the right knowledge, you won’t obtain the outcomes you desire no matter what you do to resolve the data and workflow issues. We strongly believe that if you resolve HCC coding knowledge challenges, your data and workflow issues will be resolved along the way.
The DoctusTech Mobile App is designed on our successful HCC education and retention strategy that relies on clinical vignettes customized to the clinicians’ strengths and weaknesses, which are sent to their mobile phones every week. With a 90% engagement rate, DoctusTech App results far surpass any other learning tool, technology or strategy.
According to the learning data, we consistently achieve a significant increase in clinician RAF accuracy after they start using the app for HCC coding education.
How does the app achieve this?
Clinicians can use our app to gamify their learning experience, engage with their peers, compete for real prizes, and receive administrative support. Our app also comes with the most sophisticated HCC code search tool available on the planet. In addition, clinicians earn 25 CME hours every year as they learn HCC coding in a non-boring app!
Clinical Vignettes – The secret sauce!
Most doctors who have just graduated from medical school or residency programs know little to nothing about coding for risk adjustment and value-based care. In the past, these clinicians were forced to sit in seminars and learn the correct codes so they could diagnose and document them properly. Every other important medical fact is learned in clinical vignettes, so clinicians have difficulty retaining and applying information learned in boring seminars or email blasts. Simply put, incorporating new HCC codes into daily practice is hard – which is why the DoctusTech HCC coding education app is so vital.
Doctors prefer to learn using the Socratic method, clinical vignettes, and question and answer sessions, because it is the most effective way to capture long-term knowledge gain. This is how they were educated, and this is the best way. DoctusTech enables them to learn HCC coding in the same manner—from other doctors, using clinical vignettes, on their own time, requiring only an average of five minutes per week.
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