While the new category of clinical documentation improvement specialist started before recovery audit contractors came on the scene, CDI specialists can help hospitals guard against RAC recoupment, ...
The hospital revenue cycle has grown in scale over the years as administrative tasks have increased and a new coding set, ICD-10, is primed to become the new standard. Hospitals and other healthcare ...
Staff at Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall in New York City was faced with a complex and timely physician query process. Queries often would be left unanswered, as providers were challenged by varying ...
Most providers associate clinical documentation improvement (CDI) with the transition to ICD-10 coding, however, CDI - a process in which care providers receive feedback from specialists who review ...
It’s a phrase that we all hear, and repeat, regularly, but it may be no truer than at rural and critical access hospitals. In these environments, the health information management (HIM) person may do ...
WAYNE, Pa., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Precyse Solutions, the leader in driving peak performance within Health Information Management (HIM) departments, has added even more depth to its already robust ...
Healthcare system survival pivots on many metrics, but the ability to generate revenue and to evidence high quality of care are two of the most essential. At the center of both metrics is the clinical ...
In an effort to achieve revenue gains, some hospitals have turned to improving clinical documentation. Putting in place a clinical documentation improvement program is a strategy that can lead to long ...
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) and Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN) today announced that Cerner will incorporate Nuance’s clinical documentation improvement ...
Clinical documentation is the written record of a patient-physician encounter. Before the advent of electronic health records (EHRs), these encounters were often inadequately documented. While this ...
Aerolib launches QueryGen, an AI-powered platform designed to automate clinical documentation queries and eliminate ...