by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
When you work in the CDI program of a medical facility, you are continually thinking of ways to elicit improved documentation from the medical staff. You also spend a fair amount of time lamenting why some physicians or service lines...Read More »
Lawrence J. Berthold, RN, BSN, who goes by Larry to most, Larry Joe to some, and Lawrence to few, has worked for PENN Medicine his entire nursing career, even going back to his first clinical rotation. Currently, he oversees the CDI teams across the PENN health system. He participates in both...Read More »
By Melissa Varnavas
Perhaps we’re looking at the problem of physician engagement through a lens darkly. Engaging physicians is at the core of a CDI specialist’s job. The whole query process aims to get physicians more engaged in the documentation and coding side of healthcare, to...Read More »
By Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS
I can teach CDI to anyone. Just get the providers in a room with me; they don’t even have to be willing participants. While I have heard many times that physicians only listen to other physicians, I believe my success has less to do with the...Read More »
ACDIS routinely includes questions surrounding physician engagement on annual surveys, but there hasn’t been a survey dedicated to the issue since the 2017 Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey. Since physician engagement and education is routinely cited as the top issue facing CDI professionals...Read More »
By Cathy Farraher, RN, BSN, MBA, CCM, CCDS
Physician burnout is at an all-time high and provider query fatigue is a real concern for every facility, whether your response rate is 100% or below 70%. To understand why, put yourself in the provider’s place for a moment.
More and more facilities are employing full-time physician educators or liaisons. In fact, roughly 11% of respondents to the 2018 CDI Week Industry Survey indicated they currently have this role as part of their CDI team. But the industry seems to be seeing a differentiation between the...Read More »