White Paper: Opportunities Abound in Outpatient Clinical Documentation Improvement Efforts

Outpatient CDI is one of the fastest growing areas for clinical documentation improvement expansion. Traditional inpatient programs understand that capturing documentation across settings, throughout the continuum of care can help improve patient outcomes, compensate for risk-adjusted reimbursement methods, assist with accountable care organization metrics, and capture physician practice-related documentation needs as well.

This special article outlines why CDI efforts in this area are so valuable at this particular point in time.