Effective clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs make sure a patient’s clinical status is accurately represented in the medical record. To do this, Clinical Documentation Specialists (CDS’s ...

Clinical documentation improvement programs can help healthcare organizations improve outcomes, boost bottom lines and adhere to regulations governing the industry. And while many organizations ...

A new practice brief in the May issue of the Journal of American Health Information Management Association notes that the focus of most CDI programs is to improve the quality of clinical documentation ...

I’ve been writing recently about the financial well-being of rural and critical access hospitals: about their struggling to stay in business and how establishing a clinical documentation improvement ...

It’s a phrase that we all hear, and repeat, regularly, but it may be no truer than at rural and critical access hospitals. In these environments, the health information management (HIM) person may do ...

Better clinical documentation can lead to immediate financial returns. Physician buy-in is key, ICD-10 is not. As hospital and health system finance leaders look for ways to enhance revenue in an era ...

Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) has traditionally been seen as a necessary cost for compliance and reimbursement. However, outdated approaches leave revenue on the table. What’s necessary in ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading enterprise AI software provider Iodine Software today announced a national study of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) leaders that ...