Just over 25% of healthcare leaders cite a lack of resources as the primary barrier to implementing a value-based care model, according to a Definitive Healthcare survey. Nearly 20% attribute gaps in interoperability as a sizable impediment, while another 17% cite the unpredictability of revenue...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Terry Ann Simmons, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Hartford Healthcare HOCC Campus in New Britain, Connecticut,...Read More »
According to a new study published in PLOS One, hospital care teams frequently use handwritten notes and verbal comments to communicate patient information in order to bypass design and...Read More »
FEATURES 7 EHR’s troubled path 14 Working with CAC and NLP 22 DIY outpatient tracking tools 42 Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice—2019...Read More »
by Angie Curry, RN, BSN, CCDS
Achieving documentation integrity—which results in positive outcomes for everything from quality and Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) to hospital ratings and scores—means actively involving CDI specialists in organizational documentation initiatives....Read More »
Technology changes at what can seem like light speed. ACDIS released a white paper on the topic of electronic health records (EHR) in 2013, and anyone working in CDI knows that, though some things remain constant, a lot has changed since then.
The three issues that CDI professionals most...Read More »
