This session will discuss how to leverage your CDI program to capture the “true” PSIs to help guide clinical care. Learn how collaboration between CDI, coding, and performance improvement enhances...
Learn how Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an urban academic medical center, successfully implemented a rounding model to improve physician engagement and response. This session will describe various methods for rounding...
CDI professionals are under pressure to ensure physicians provide the necessary documentation to support ICD-10 coding, and they are looking for other ways to leverage or extend CDI activities. Healthcare documentation specialists (HDS) are the...
Although a CAH is paid under the cost-based methodology, sound documentation is no less important in this setting than it is for those under the DRG-based prospective payment system. This concept might be a tough sell to the executive team and physicians...
Although CDI is well established in adult hospital settings, it’s still an emerging field in pediatric hospitals. This session will draw on the experience of pediatric CDI physician champions to highlight the...
This session will describe five motivational forces to help attendees effect behavior change in pediatric providers. It will also identify common obstacles to documentation compliance to increase pediatric CMI, SOI, and ROM.
Do you want to expand your CDI expertise and program reach? This session will discuss CDI opportunities available in acute inpatient rehab. It will outline the rehab CDI program structure, discuss rehab CDI specialist attributes, and review program...
Interested in starting a CDI program at your pediatric facility? In this session, you will hear CDI nurses from Children’s of Alabama explain the development of their emerging program and the challenges of coding pediatrics in a...
Through audience participation, presenters discuss the outcome of a CDI survey recently administered through ACDIS. It includes discussion about different CDI department models, including credentials...
Donna Smith, RHIA, demonstrates a step-by-step analysis that can be used to determine the areas and service lines with the greatest exposure under ICD-10, along with mitigation opportunities using documentation specificity,
