As healthcare organizations expand outpatient services and transition to accountable care organizations (ACOs), outpatient documentation has become more complex and critical to the bottom line. To ...
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 ...
These days, clinical documentation improvement is on everyone’s mind. As hospital’s focus on ramping up documentation to prepare for ICD-10, the demand for CDI specialists continues to grow. In fact, ...