These days it seems the healthcare industry is all about quality. And no wonder: Underpinning healthcare reform is a fundamental shift from volume-based payment to paying for quality, patient centered outcomes, and demonstrable improvements in physician and hospital performance. Following is a recap of the survey results beginning on p. 7 and LeBlanc’s commentary.
As part of the fourth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.
$500,000. That’s what facilities expect as their CDI programs’ annual return on investment (ROI), according to 58% of more than 1,660 respondents...Read More »
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.
Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, FHM, asks in this presentation "Do you ever wish that doctors would just change their ways and start documenting better? Why do most change efforts fail? How can we succeed in leading change?" In this presentation he outlines the necessary steps and the foundations for...
Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, and Sylvia Hoffman, RN, CCDS, C-CDI, CDIP, explain why obtaining physician buy-in to CDI is the most frustrating day-to-day aspect of CDI. The tools shared in this presentation demonstrate how pay for performance, quality metrics, ROM, and SOI scores in conjunction...
Abby Steelhammer, MBA/MHA, RN, and Larry Weems II, MD, provide insight and understanding for partnering and leveraging resources to meet overall organizational goals. The presentation includes an overview of Novant Health's CDI program dynamics and reviews its transformational team approach...
Andrew Rothschild, MD, MS, MPH, presentation explores how CDI specialists and coders are taught not to question a physician's clearly documented diagnosis. But what happens when that diagnosis seems to have come from left field? Specialists and coders are also bound to clarify apparent...
