As part of the eleventh annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interiews with CDI professionals on a variety of...Read More »
Patricia King-Musser, DNP, BSN, RN, CCDS, senior director of CDI for Geisinger Health System based in Danville, Pennsylvania, answered these questions. She is a member of the central Pennsylvania ACDIS and AAPC local chapters and of the 2021 ACDIS Furthering Education Committee.
ACDIS celebrates CDI specialists annually with a full week of recognition for the profession through activities, education, and fun. This year’s...Read More »
ACDIS celebrates CDI specialists annually with a full week of recognition for the profession through activities, education, and fun. This year’s CDI Week theme is CDI Kitchen: Recipes for a Successful Program, aiming to go back to the basics of what it takes to make a CDI program great.
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...
Did you know that only about 24% of CDI professionals round with physicians on the floor as part of their typical duties, or that 65% of CDI departments who have a physician advisor share this person with another department? Did you know that the average amount of new charts reviewed per day by...
Today’s guest is Yvonne Whitley, RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO, CCDS-O, manager of ambulatory CDI at Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. Today’s co-host is Sharme Brodie...
The pandemic turned a new page for CDI. Much of the workforce has gone remote, payment has shifted towards value-based purchasing, and risk-based models. The world of CDI has changed and adapting to the new technology is the path of the future.
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...
