Of the 4,840 short-term acute care hospitals in the United States, 3,231 of them were part of a hospital system in 2016, according to the American...Read More »
Whether within a department, across a large health system, or across the globe, the way in which a message is delivered is often as important as...Read More »
If you have been in a leadership position, you may have had the opportunity to write a mission statement for your CDI department. But before that...Read More »
by Aimee M. Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Laurie A. Morelle, RN, MS, CCDS
Struggling with how to educate your MDs? Having difficulty with engagement and query response rates? We can help! Come on in to learn from our mistakes and successes over the last eight years. In this...
by Jennifer A. Crumb, RN, BSN, CCDS, Ashlyn Hard, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Jennifer Woodworth, RN, BSN
Now that CDI efforts have been around for quite a few years, organizations are noticing a plateau effect—the case-mix index has found its happy place, physicians are comfortable with...
by Susanne Gleason, RHIT, CCDS, and Sandeep Soman, MD
When Henry Ford Health System centralized CDI programs at four acute care hospitals, it transitioned performance measurement from a reporting focus to the integration of analytics into all aspects of CDI, including quality....
