Mitch’s Blog

A couple of weeks ago I came home from giving a presentation, only to learn that the speaker for another organization whose board I’m on had to cancel because of a family emergency. I was the one who’d gotten the speaker, so I said I’d step up and give a presentation on web optimization. [...]

Last night, my wife and I went to see the movie Happy Feet. It’s an animated feature about a penguin who doesn’t know how to sing, but dances instead. This is a problem because it’s how penguins communicate, and how they find the one that they’re going to create new life with. I’ve waited [...]

Diagnosis codes, for billing and coding purposes, are known as ICD-9 codes. That stands for International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision. We’ve been using these codes for decades now, adding and modifying as needed.
There’s a new version that’s ready to bust out, the 10th revision. Many other countries have already adopted this [...]

I don’t often get quoted in other blogs, something I hope changes as I get to the point of fame that I, probably stupidly, want to reach some day. So I admit surprise and elation at being quoted in one of the blogs I have on my blogroll, which I’d added just because I like [...]

Hey, my first true advertisement, and I’ve had this blog for a long time!
I’d like to announce the relaunch of the Mitchell Manager Evalution Module. I created and tested this module in 2003, with the intention being to allow those who either had to hire new managers or evaluate managers already on staff to pick [...]

I gave a presentation on Wednesday to a group in one of my primary fields of business, healthcare finance, more specifically, the relationship between CPT-4 codes and revenue codes.  It was a fairly short presentation, about an hour, but it was well received.
I got home later in the afternoon, and while catching up on my [...]

I’m not going to get political with this post, but suffice it to say that, on November 7th, the nation decided it was time to go a different direction, and later on the 8th, the nation learned that, indeed, both houses of Congress had gone the Democratic way.
This was a major turnaround of our government, [...]

Last night, I decided I wasn’t going to keep paying to sponsor an online networking interest.  I got into it because I had hoped to bring business owners from throughout my own area together to network with each other, first by meeting online, then possibly by meeting each other in person.
I had written, in ending [...]