CDI Expansion

Tim Weister, RN, MSN, CCDS, explores how to include medical students in CDI training and presents how
Mayo Clinic CDI team partnered with its medical school to create a CDI training program.

Katy Good, RN, BSN, CCDS,  CCS, and Benjamin Keeler, RN, BSN, PCCN, MHI, explain how to leverage your CDI program to improve hospital rankings and SOI/ROM; assist in the transition to pay for performance; initiate real-time quality improvement and monitoring; and improve core measure compliance...

Trey La Charité, MD, reviews U.S. healthcare performance, medicine, and the Patient Protection and  Affordable Care Act with an eye on how they pertain to CDI. Participants will see why our current healthcare  system is broken and how this frames the strong drive for current reform efforts....

Elaine King, MHS, RHIA, CHP, CHDA, CDIP, FAHIMA, explores how emerging legislation and technology has created tremendous demand for CDI that extends beyond the traditional inpatient-focused initiatives into the outpatient arena. This session will explain how organizations can implement practical...

Bernadette Slovensky, RN, MSN, CCDS details how Stony Brook Medicine designed a CDI program for its emergency department with a focus on quality and capturing POAs. It will also explain how the effort required more than physician engagement and support. Practical solutions and best practices...

Teresa Hegard, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Emily Jazdzewski, RN, BSN, MAN, explore the too often overlooked area of psychiatry. Paying close attention to the details of this patient population can improve overall severity of illness and risk of mortality. CDI staff can emphasize the importance of the...

Trisha McCauliff Streb, RN, BSN, CCDS, focuses on the little understood and explored obstetrics service line. Most obstetrics patients are not Medicare, but many opportunities for improved APR billing/coding exist in this population. Participants will leave able to identify frequently missed...

Vicki Sullivan Davis, RN, Clinical Documentation Improvement Manager at Cone Health System at Alamance Regional in Burlington, N.C., provides participants with the tools to achieve excellence while confidently managing their CDI team. Davis outlines qualities a good leader should possess   and...