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DoctusTech Helps: Deploy HCC coding education across your organization

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.   Get in touch to learn more about how DoctusTech helps!
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DoctusTech Helps Clinicians Learn HCC Coding

DoctusTech Helps Clinicians Learn HCC Coding

DoctusTech helps clinicians learn HCC coding through clinical vignettes in an app that is fun and engaging. Diagnosing with the appropriate HCC code is a critical skill for modern clinicians who care for patients in a value-based care arrangement. You cannot treat what you do not accurately diagnose, and you cannot afford to treat what you do not appropriately code. Without the correct diagnoses and accurate documentation and coding, caring for patients with complex disease will be unsuccessful, leading to increased avoidable hospitalizations and increased cost to the organization. 

 

And without a tool to get clinicians quickly up to speed on diagnosing for risk at the point of care, coding accurately and documenting correctly, you will be stuck. Stuck in boring seminars that rarely affect lasting behavior change; stuck with missed diagnoses and missed revenue targets; stuck with patients missing out on essential care; stuck with overworked clinicians; stuck. 

 

How do clinicians learn HCC coding?

This is where DoctusTech Helps. We provide a modern learning tool for the modern clinician, using gamification, competition, real prizes and administrative oversight to see who is engaging and who needs a little extra help. Also, our app deploys all the subtle nudges and complete with the most advanced HCC code search tool on earth.

 

And clinicians earn 25 hours of CME per year, while they learn HCC coding in a non-boring app!

 

In SCUBA diving, the diver must add just the right amount of weight to maintain perfect positive buoyancy; too much and you will sink, too little and you will bob on the surface like a cork. Risk adjustment in value-based care has some similarities: a successful VBC program will diagnose and treat just the right conditions. Not over-coding, and not under-diagnosing. 

 

Clinicians learn HCC coding better in clinical vignettes

And doctors coming out of medical school and even residency programs know little to nothing about HCC coding and diagnosing for Risk Adjustment and Value-Based Care. Traditionally, these clinicians sit in seminars getting force-fed codes in an effort to teach them how to accurately diagnose and document with the appropriate HCC codes. Unfortunately, this is not how every other vital piece of medical information was learned, so clinicians struggle to retain the information and utilize it in daily practice. 

 

Medical education is all about the Socratic method, question and answer, clinical vignettes. Doctors learned to learn this way, and they prefer it. Which is why DoctusTech helps doctors learn HCC coding the way they like to learn – from other doctors, in clinical vignettes, on their own time, and in an average of 5 minutes per week.

 

Truly, DoctusTech helps clinicians learn HCC coding. And when clinicians master diagnosing for risk with HCC codes, your whole VBC program improves. 

 

See more ways that DoctusTech Helps:

  • DoctusTech Helps: Increase RAF Accuracy
  • DoctusTech Helps: Decrease clinician workload
  • DoctusTech Helps: Deploy HCC coding education across your org 
  • DoctusTech Helps: Change Clinician Behavior
  • DoctusTech Helps: Value-Based Care