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 ...

It’s a phrase that we all hear, and repeat, regularly, but it may be no truer than at rural and critical access hospitals. In these environments, the health information management (HIM) person may do ...

Clinical documentation improvement programs can help healthcare organizations improve outcomes, boost bottom lines and adhere to regulations governing the industry. And while many organizations ...

“Eighty percent of Nuance CDI customers had prior CDI programs, but when they implement our clinical CDI program with its guaranteed outcomes, they see significant improvements in quality and a 4-8 ...

Clinical documentation initiatives that incorporate clinicians within revenue cycle operations can help hospitals better prepare for population health management. Powerful analytics tools will fail to ...

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 However, outdated approaches leave revenue on the table.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 ...

New resources give CDI, coding, and revenue integrity professionals the pediatric-specific training needed to improve documentation accuracy and ensure accurate reimbursement Chicago, IL, June 16, ...