March is “National Nutrition Month,” according to a recent release from CMS. CDI departments can take advantage of the national push to raise awareness of obesity and malnutrition by tyingdocumentation improvement efforts into the national initiative.
Physicians resist change. They fear it. Although comfortable reading medical literature, and comfortable improving patient care with new techniques and medications, having CDI professionals “educate” physicians about improving their documentation...Read More »
CDI professionals see a lot of physician documentation—not all of it good or pretty. A few annoying and troublesome problems fall into the “bad” or “ugly” categories. Describing a few of these worrisome practice patterns and identifying ways to improve...Read More »
Linnea Thennes, RN, BS, CCDS, works at Centegra Health System, a two-hospital system in Northern Ilinois that has plans to add a third facility. She is one of the founding members of the Northern Illinois CDI Network, which began in March 2008. Thennes is very proud to have been among the group...Read More »
by Beth Soule, RN, MSN, CCDS After being in the CDI field a little over a year, I ordered The CCDS Exam Study Guide and signed up to take the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) exam. I remember wondering if my seven years as a case manager or my clinical experience...Read More »
Nearly 90 CDI professionals converged on the campus of Columbus (Ind.) Regional Hospital on August 23, in a networking event that combined efforts of the Central Indiana and Kentucky/Southern Indiana ACDIS Chapters, an event more than six months in the making. Attendees traveled from as far...Read More »
My last blog post focused on physician profiling. Time and time again, I’ve seen that once physicians understand how clinical documentation impacts their pay, profiling, medical/legal risk and severity of illness reporting, they realize it is in...Read More »
