CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 4

Assessing CDI Success: Redefining physician query response types

July 1, 2015
CDI Management

It’s a scenario many CDI specialists face: After spending hours reviewing a physician’s documentation and carefully crafting query after query, the physician responds with “unable to determine” or “clinically   insignificant.” It may seem frustrating to get an answer like this.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 9, Issue 4

Local Chapter Events: Puerto Rico, North Carolina, and Wisconsin meeting fill out February

February 19, 2015
News

Here's a list of local chapter events happening this February in Puerto Rico, North Carolina, and Wisconin. 
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CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 4

Physician Advisor’s Corner: What your primary care physicians need to know about CDI

July 1, 2015
Education

by Trey La Charité, MD
Even though primary care physicians (PCP) need CDI expertise, many remain unaware of how the medical landscape around them has changed, and many more simply do not believe that their practice has to change. If the PCPs in your network are reticent, the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 9, Issue 4

News: CDI role listed among new job titles related to healthcare reform

February 19, 2015
News

As healthcare reform bring changes in reimbursement and focus, it also brings a shift in job titles, roles, and responsibilities throughout the industry, James U. King, senior partner, chief quality officer and children's hospitals practice lead at executive staffing firm Witt/Kieffer, told ...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 4

Physician documentation and engagement

July 1, 2015
Education

A recent survey conducted by The American Hospital Association and Executive Health Resources (EHR) found that 98.5% of participants reported that their physicians could improve their documentation practices.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 9, Issue 4

News: Hospitals lose out in CMS' carrot/stick prodding

February 19, 2015
News, Quality & Regulatory

Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing ties reimbursement to quality measures, assessing criteria such as mortality, patient satisfaction, and other items.Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 4

Off the unit: CDI efforts offer insight into international volunteer experience

October 1, 2014
News, CDI Expansion

When Melanie Halpern, RN-BC, MBA, CCDS, CCRA, CDI manager at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, began her CDI career in 2004, she didn’t have international aspirations. When she found out about the International Surgical Health Initiative (ISHI), she had to get involved. We...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 4

Take a holistic documentation approach

July 1, 2015
Policies & Procedures, CDI Expansion

by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI
Some common disease processes require certain types of care. Healthcare specialties often create such standard care intervention checklists to increase efficiency in overall treatments, and to drive notable...Read More »

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