Effective clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs make sure a patient’s clinical status is accurately represented in the medical record. To do this, Clinical Documentation Specialists (CDS’s ...

Clinical documentation improvement programs have existed for more than ten years, however as the overall healthcare delivery and reimbursement models continue to change, the CDI profession and ...

I’ve been writing recently about the financial well-being of rural and critical access hospitals: about their struggling to stay in business and how establishing a clinical documentation improvement ...

Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) has traditionally been seen as a necessary cost for compliance and reimbursement. However, outdated approaches leave revenue on the table. What’s necessary in ...

A new practice brief in the May issue of the Journal of American Health Information Management Association notes that the focus of most CDI programs is to improve the quality of clinical documentation ...

Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) has become more important than ever, but poses “unique challenges” with the proliferation of electronic health records, according to a new article in the ...

Physician-Centered CDI Programs Integrated with Nuance’s Enhanced Clinical Language Understanding Platform Drive Better Documentation, Coding, Reimbursement and Care Nuance Communications, Inc. – ...