While the new category of clinical documentation improvement specialist started before recovery audit contractors came on the scene, CDI specialists can help hospitals guard against RAC recoupment, ...

The platform integrates generative AI, ambient listening, and natural language processing to document care within EHR.

According to Donald Berwick in a recent Wall Street Journal article, “…the formula for ACO success is clear: keep quality high, save money by improving - not by restricting - care, and remain ...

Most providers associate clinical documentation improvement (CDI) with the transition to ICD-10 coding, however, CDI - a process in which care providers receive feedback from specialists who review ...

Update: HIMSS20 has been canceled due to the coronavirus. Read more here. Halifax Health CIO Tom Stafford says its hospitals' clinical documentation improvement efforts used to be arduous for the CDI ...

Background: Clinical documentation is critical to health care quality and cost. The generally poor quality of such documentation has been well recognized, yet medical students, residents, and ...

Everything hospital executives need to know about the importance of clinical documentation improvement is summed up in one single fact: CDI fuels correct reimbursement and accurate quality reporting.

Interest in ambulatory clinical documentation improvement continues, as does the confusion about what such an approach can and cannot accomplish. In a previous piece, I discussed what ambulatory CDI ...

Physicians and other healthcare professionals will have to employ much more accurate and specific documentation of their care if ICD-10 coding is to work right, speakers asserted in an education ...