By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
If you mention analytics or key performance indicators (KPI) in relation to thought leaders on social media, you may be treated as though you’ve just suggested the world is flat and the earth is the center of the solar system.
As part of the eighth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Caryn Nowak, RHIA, CDIP, a clinical documentation specialist at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego...Read More »
The question most frequently asked of CDI programs, in my experience, is why the case mix index (CMI) is so low. The asker is different from facility to facility—the question may come from the C-suite (chief executive officer, financial officer,...Read More »
Due to the intricacy of healthcare records, clinical documentation, and the complexity of medical terms and abbreviations, many hospitals use computer-assisted coding (CAC) together with intervention by human coders. However, the latest...Read More »
We use lots of metrics to describe the success or failure of a CDI program. We talk about numbers of charts reviewed, response rates, agreement rates, audit denials overturned, the financial impact of queries as measured by revenue changes and...Read More »
Years ago, I started a conversation on CDI Talk (now the ACDIS Forum) about failed CDI programs, hoping at the time that there might be someone willing to divulge a first-hand account of how and why their program “failed” and perhaps how they were...Read More »
Along with new year’s resolutions, many CDI programs update their policies and procedures at the beginning of the year. To gauge the prevalence of policy updates, ACDIS is currently running a polling question on the...Read More »