Quality Tracking for Myocardial Infarction
Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, CEO, and Mary Beth Bumbarger, RHIA, CHDA, CCS
During this presentation, attendees will learn how documentation for an elevated troponin can have a significant impact to a hospital’s...

Risk Modeling and Coding for Social Determinants of Health
Margaret “Maggie” M. Foley, PhD, RHIA, CCS, associate professor for HIM at Temple University in Philadelphia and Suzanne Rogers, RHIA, CCS, CHDA, lead HIM associate at Vizient’s Center for Advanced Analytics...

Why Mortality Reviews Matter
Sheri Blanchard, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, CCDS, CCS, CDI corporate director, and Julian Everett, RN, CDIP, regional CDI manager, at Orlando Health Hospital, Florida
A story can be told through documentation. Missing pages, chapters, and...

Risk Adjustment: Why CMI and SOI/ROM Aren’t Enough
Cheryl Ericson, RN, CDIP, CCDS, Clinical Program Manager at Iodine Software in Austin, Texas
Many CDI specialists working in the inpatient setting are unfamiliar with HCCs, a risk-adjustment tool based on...

Record Interrogations for Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model: Tools for CDI
Michelle Wieczorek, CCDS-O, RN, RHIT, CPHQ, Senior Manager of CDI Services at DHG Healthcare in Erie, Pennsylvania
Session attendees will learn about the BPCI...

Foraging a Path Through the Forest: Uncovering CDI’s Role in Clarifying Patient Safety Indicators
Kari Thie, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDI director, and Maureen Bucci, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI auditor at SCL Health in Broomfield, Colorado
Session attendees will learn how to...

This paper is the second in a series on risk-based clinical documentation integrity (CDI). As the use of risk adjustment in healthcare expands, so too does the reach of CDI professionals in capturing the patient’s story, including level of risk related to demographic factors, comorbidities, and...

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