Last night, I stopped to pick up a few things at Staples. At the checkout counter, the clerk ran into a couple of challenges. None of these interruptions in my checkout experience were this individual’s fault and she handled them while keeping a shy smile and...Read More »
By Melissa Varnavas
Perhaps we’re looking at the problem of physician engagement through a lens darkly. Engaging physicians is at the core of a CDI specialist’s job. The whole query process aims to get physicians more engaged in the documentation and coding side of healthcare, to...Read More »
By Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS
I can teach CDI to anyone. Just get the providers in a room with me; they don’t even have to be willing participants. While I have heard many times that physicians only listen to other physicians, I believe my success has less to do with the...Read More »
ACDIS routinely includes questions surrounding physician engagement on annual surveys, but there hasn’t been a survey dedicated to the issue since the 2017 Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey. Since physician engagement and education is routinely cited as the top issue facing CDI professionals...Read More »