CDI departments across the country are playing a more critical role in healthcare than ever before. With greater responsibility carries greater challenges for CDI Leaders and their teams.
“In order to rise to these challenges, we must consider what we can do — both on the front and...
In Advancing CDI with Technology, published by ACDIS in June 2021, clinical documentation integrity (CDI) departments have found that enabling technology increases productivity, frees up time for more complex reviews, and streamlines workflows. As CDI programs grapple with staffing constraints...
Today’s clinical documentation integrity (CDI) leaders juggle many priorities at once, balancing CDI departmental needs and bandwidth against the needs and goals of the broader organization. Add in the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital budgets and leaders find themselves...
The ACDIS CDI Leadership Council serves the purpose of connecting leaders across the country for conversations about the hot topics and industry trends in CDI. A smaller subset of the Council, the Mastermind group, provides participants with an opportunity for focused brainstorming and problem-...
Healthcare analysts and industry experts are forecasting that operating margins will remain depressed for the remainder of 2021. Elective surgeries are once again being placed on hold as available physical space within the hospital walls is limited, and longstanding staff shortages continue and...
In the early days of the clinical documentation integrity (CDI) industry, the focus was overwhelmingly financial in nature. CDI professionals reviewed records focused simply on capturing comorbid complicating conditions (CC) and major CCs (MCC) for accurate code assignment and reimbursement....
Gone are the days when clinical documentation integrity (CDI) professionals had to work with paper medical records and queries or scan documents into a rudimentary electronic health record (EHR) system. As the CDI...
CDI leaders’ responsibilities are varied and far reaching. Rather than going the journey alone, leaders can gain valuable insight by connecting with peers outside their organizations to collaborate, trade advice, and share challenges and successes.
Like all areas of healthcare, clinical documentation integrity (CDI) programs underwent rapid change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unanticipated fluctuations in patient volumes caused CDI priorities to shift in a...
CDI technology options have come a long way, adapting as the industry’s role in the healthcare environment has shifted from a primarily financial enterprise to one that includes quality reviews, denials management and appeals, risk adjustment, and settings beyond traditional inpatient acute care...
