Career Step Named As ICD-10 Education Services Provider for Cerner Corporation

PROVO, Utah - Aug. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Career Step, a healthcare education company offering online training, is excited to announce an agreement with Cerner Corporation to deliver ICD-10 education services to the company’s clients and associates. The agreement, designed to advance the companies’ mutual goals of delivering the best possible outcomes to their clients’ investments in ICD-10 training, names Cerner, whose solutions are licensed by more than 10,000 facilities worldwide, as a reseller of Career Step’s The ICD-10 Solution.

The ICD-10 Solution, a comprehensive set of programs co-developed by Career Step and YES HIM Consulting, Inc., is designed with the complexity of ICD-10 in mind.  To prepare for the industry’s switch to ICD-10, coders and other stakeholders must learn how the ICD-10 classification system works, a daunting task for which many in the industry are as yet unprepared.  

“ICD-10 training is critical to coder accuracy and productivity, which are in turn vital to our clients’ financial well-being,” said Mike Hodgson, Vice President of Healthcare and Corporate Partnerships for Career Step.  “Our approach to ICD-10 training facilitates efficient learning and retention of the new coding guidelines, as well as how to abstract key documentation elements, interpret surgical techniques and apply new aspects of the biomedical sciences, all while meeting the demands of their current jobs.”

Industry experts warn not to count on another extension to the mandated transition date of October 1, 2014.  With less than 14 months remaining and staff shortages already an issue, many are worried about losses in productivity, coder frustration and cash flow disruptions.  

”Cerner acknowledges that the transition to ICD-10 requires a huge lift of our client’s time and resources,” said Derek Lundberg, Director of Revenue Cycle Education for Cerner. “We’re working with leading ICD-10 education organizations, such as Career Step, to make the training component of ICD-10 as seamless as possible for our client organizations.”

Because The ICD-10 Solution uses methodologies that have been proven effective for varied adult learning styles, needs-based learning and retention are maximized with minimal disruption to current productivity levels during the training and dual coding processes.

About Career Step
Career Step, an online institution providing career-focused education and corporate training, has trained over 85,000 students, has more than 150 partnerships with colleges and universities nationwide, and provides training for several of the most respected healthcare employers in the nation. Career Step is committed to helping students and corporate employees alike gain the skills they need to be successful in the workplace, improving lives and business results through education. The institution's training programs are currently focused in healthcare, administration and technology, and more information can be found at www.careerstep.com or 1-800-246-7836.

About Cerner Corporation
Cerner is contributing to the systemic change of health and care delivery. For more than 30 years Cerner has been executing its vision to make health care safer and more efficient. We started with the foundation of digitizing paper processes and now offer the most comprehensive array of information software, professional services, medical device integration, remote hosting and employer health and wellness services. Cerner systems are used by everyone from individual consumers, to single-doctor practices, hospitals, employers and entire countries. Taking what we’ve learned over more than three decades, Cerner is building on the knowledge that is in the system to support evidence-based clinical decisions, prevent medical errors and empower patients in their care.

Cerner® solutions are licensed by approximately 10,000 facilities around the world, including more than 2,700 hospitals; 4,150 physician practices; 45,000 physicians; 550 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, behavioral health centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 800 home health facilities; 45 employer sites and 1,750 retail pharmacies.

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