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 ...