Clinical documentation improvement programs have existed for more than ten years, however as the overall healthcare delivery and reimbursement models continue to change, the CDI profession and ...

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 ...

As healthcare organizations expand outpatient services and transition to accountable care organizations (ACOs), outpatient documentation has become more complex and critical to the bottom line. To ...

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 However, outdated approaches leave revenue on the table.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 ...

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 ...

So far, Summit has been focused on improving documentation for patients with sepsis, Sherman says, noting that he and other leaders have been buoyed by the early success of the CDI program to look at ...

Acurx's Program in the Broader CDI Patient Population is Ready to Advance toPhase 3 International Clinical Trials Acurx previously announced that it had received positive regulatory guidance from the ...